Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S.

Quach Phong, detail of “Sketching Vietnamese History, Phase 1; Tot Dong/Chuc Dong Battles (1426) and Chi Lang/Xuong Giang Battles (1427)” (2016), lacquer on wood, 1.2 x 7.2m (all photos by the author ...

At noon on Monday, veterans and their families, elected and appointed governmental officials, local citizens and members of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and other ...

Born from necessity and ingenuity, Vietnam’s growing coffee scene offers immersive tasting experiences for visitors.

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Chances are you have seen some of these images before. There's the young girl with her clothes burned off by napalm, running in terror down a country road. There's ...

In the buzzing matrix of Hanoi’s old quarter sits Phở Thìn, one of 700-or-so pho restaurants that speckle this thousand-year-old city. Phở Thìn is practically outfitted with stainless steel tables, ...

History of the widespread mutiny of US troops in Vietnam that brought the world's most powerful military machine to its knees. The GI anti-war movement within the army was one of the decisive factors ...

Instead of confronting the truth, we scrubbed the record clean—and we’re still paying for it in Afghanistan and Iraq today. A napalm strike erupts in a fireball near US troops in South Vietnam, 1966 ...

Phở is a delicious dish, but it also tells us a lot about the history of Vietnam, and about how cultures collide. Here are a few facts you can drop the next time you enjoy a bowl. Feu is the French ...