50 years after the Vietnam War, is the U.S. still a refuge?

Half a century after the fall of Saigon, the diverging narratives of the war contrast the official communist memory with that of the exiled and defeated.

50 years after the Vietnam War, is the U.S. still a refuge?

Two years ago, as I pieced together the stories for the documentary series Refuge After War, I found myself navigating the complex emotions that come with excavating communal trauma. I wasn’t just documenting history — I was processing my own inheritance as the child of Vietnamese boat people. What I couldn’t have anticipated then was how quickly the small flames of hope we kindled would face new winds of resistance. As Refuge After War prepares…

Fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end, lessons from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance - 3 Quarks Daily

David Cortright at the Boston Review: We hoped that our collective struggles had made a difference in ending a war that never should have been fought. Fifty years later, the consensus is firm: we had. Over the years, scholars have documented the many influences of peace protest in altering U.S. policy. As Carolyn Eisenberg affirms in her recent history, Fire and Rain, “Waves of mass demonstrations, accompanied by growing resistance inside the mi…