The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese against each other. April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of ...

“Vietnam: The Real War” (Abrams; Oct. 1, 2013; 304 pages; 300 photographs; US $40.00/CAN $45.00/UK £25.00) UPDATED: Read The New York Times preview. To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press ...

What if? Those two words are easy to ask, whether about our own lives or world history. But the answers can be haunting—a different choice might have created a better opportunity or prevented a ...

When Americans think of being at war, they might think of images of their fellow citizens suffering. We count the dead and wounded. We follow veterans on their difficult journey of recovery from ...

2001-07-29T09:57:43-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/28b/165320-m.jpgMr. Karnow talked about his book, Vietnam: A History, published by Penguin USA. The author ...

On this day in history, in 1973, the United States, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and North Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accords, which formally brought an end to the Vietnam War. The Paris Peace ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

On April 29, 1975, in the last chaotic hours of the war, U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Blue Ridge push a helicopter into the sea to make room on deck for more evacuation flights from Saigon.