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Lu, Anh Thu
Lu Anh Thu has been an active board member since 2003 for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington D.C. The foundation was established in 1993 through a congressional act signed by President Clinton. The mission is to educate this…
Hsu, Madeline
Dr. Madeline Hsu served as the director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She details her research interests and her editorial work and speaks about the importance of Asian American studies as a field of…
Yablonka, Marc Phillip
Marc Yablonka holds a Master's of Professional Writing degree earned from the University of Southern California and has worked as a military journalist and as an adjunct professor of English. He has written the book Distant War: Recollections of…
Pyle, Richard
Richard Pyle, a retired correspondent for the Associated Press, discusses his coverage of the Vietnam War between 1968 and 1973. He reflects on the potential power of images to influence public perceptions of war and what role journalists and…
Turner, Robert Foster
University of Virginia School of Law professor, Dr. Robert Turner, discusses the United States involvement in Vietnam in the geopolitical context of international communist movements, Vietnamese nationalism, French colonialism in Indochina and…
Denney, Stephen
Stephen Denney, from the UC Berkeley Library, Main Library, discusses human rights issues in Vietnam, an interest that he cultivated from his fourteen-year tenure working in the Indochina Archives with Douglas Pike. He co-authored a book along with…
Le, Cindy
Cindy Le, a second generation Vietnamese American born in the United States, talks about her family history, particularly her father's service in the South Vietnamese Army and his subsequent thirteen-year imprisonment after the war. She describes her…
Wang, Jason
Jason Wang, an Asian American studies major at UT Austin, describes how he became interested in Vietnamese American history by participating in an oral history project that he conducted as part of a course on Vietnamese Americans taught by Dr. Linda…
Lu, Nina
Nina Lu is a 1.5 generation American from the Hunan region in China. Her father is from Vietnam. She is currently working on a Master's in Business at UT Austin. She speaks about the importance of improving access to a broader historical perspective…
Le, Roger
Roger Le, a second generation Vietnamese American, shares his family history, including how his family was treated as second class citizens after the war and subsequently their family's escape from Vietnam to the Philippines on a boat.
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