TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Teaching students about the Vietnam War: the case for balance
JO  - Democracy and security
A1  - Hager, Robert Peter
SP  - 304
EP  - 335
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1741-9166
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2017.1353422
ID  - ref1
ER  -