Gregg L. Michel is Professor of History and Assistant Department Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This interview is based on his new book, Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s […]
Vietnam War
The Author’s Corner with Geoffrey Wawro
Geoffrey Wawro is University Distinguished Research Professor of History and Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. This interview is based on his new book, The Vietnam War: A Military History (Basic Books, 2024). JF: […]
Calley, Thompson, and remembering My Lai
We learned yesterday–at the end of July–that Lt. William Calley, aged 80, died back in April.
Episode 123: “Drew Gilpin Faust on Growing-Up at Midcentury”
She was a privileged baby boomer who grew up on a horse farm in segregated Virginia. By her twenty-first birthday she had worked for peace in Communist Europe, traveled the country in the cause of racial justice, marched for voting rights […]
Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức and the journalist who photographed him
We’ve all seen the image. Over at Zocalo Public Square historian Ray Boomhower tells us more about the photographer, Malcolm W. Browne. Here is a taste: While President John F. Kennedy was talking by phone with his brother, U.S. Attorney […]