@article{ref1,
title="Teaching students about the Vietnam War: the case for balance",
journal="Democracy and security",
year="2017",
author="Hager, Robert Peter",
volume="13",
number="4",
pages="304-335",
abstract="This work examines how the American role in the Vietnam War has been portrayed in standard college- and university-level textbooks dealing with American foreign policy. It argues that this topic has been presented in a manner that leaves an incomplete understanding. This conclusion is based on scholarship that has been available for decades as well as much Cold War historiography that has appeared since 1975. I conclude that the distortions need to be addressed for several reasons. Their propagation produces bad scholarship, gratuitously alienates Americans from their institutions of government, and justifies anti-Americanism and authoritarianism elsewhere.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1741-9166",
doi="10.1080/17419166.2017.1353422",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2017.1353422"
}