Introduction : making sense of the Vietnam wars / Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young
Pt. 1. American intervention and the Cold War consensus. Explaining the early decisions : the United States and the French War, 1945-1954 / Mark Atwood Lawrence
"No place to fight a war" : Laos and the evolution of U.S. policy toward Vietnam, 1954-1963 / Seth Jacobs
Explaining the Vietnam War : dominant and contending paradigms / Gareth Porter
"There ain't no daylight" : Lyndon Johnson and the politics of escalation / Fredrik Logevall
Pt. 2. The coming of war in Vietnam. Through a glass darkly : reading the history of the Vietnamese Communist Party, 1945-1975 / Sophie Quinn-Judge
Vision, power, and agency : the ascent of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1945-1954 / Edward Miller
Taking notice of the everyday / David Hunt
Co so cach mang and the social network of war / Heonik Kwon
Pt. 3. War's end and endless wars. Cold War contradictions : toward an international history of the Second Indochina War, 1969-1973 / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
"Help us tell the truth about Vietnam" : POW/MIA politics and the end of the American War / Michael J. Allen
Official history, revisionist history, and wild history / David W.P. Elliott.
pt. 1. American intervention and the Cold War consensus. Explaining the early decisions / Mark Atwood Lawrence
"No place to fight a war" / Seth Jacobs
Explaining the Vietnam War / Gareth Porter
"There ain't no daylight" / Fredrik Logevall
pt. 2. The coming of war in Vietnam. Through a glass darkly / Sophie Quinn-Judge
Vision, power, and agency / Edward Miller
Taking notice of the everyday / David Hunt
Co so cach mang and the social network of war / Heonik Kwon
pt. 3. War's end and endless wars. Cold War contradictions / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
"Help us tell the truth about Vietnam" / Michael J. Allen
Official history, revisionist history, and wild history / David W.P. Elliott.
