Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, will discuss the history of the 1968 Tet Offensive on BBC Radio 4's program "Back to Vietnam" on Saturday, January 27, 2018. Professor Nguyen took part in the program, which focuses on BBC journalist Julian Pettifer, who was the Saigon … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen Discusses the State of the Vietnam War in 1967 on C-SPAN3
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, discussed the state of the Vietnam War in 1967 on a C-SPAN3 forum on November 11, 2017. Professor Nguyen joined historian Mark Atwood Lawrence of the University of Texas at Austin to take viewer calls and answer tweets about the war in Vietnam, … [Read more...]
Nov. 10 Event: “Repressing Revisionism in Vietnam, 1956-1960:” Audio and Photos
Audio and photographs are now available from the November 10, 2017 event "Repressing Revisionism in Vietnam, 1956-1960." During the standing-room-only event, Peter Zinoman of the University of California, Berkeley discussed his next book project, which surveys the intellectual schisms and literati debates in the backdrop of state repression of the arts in the Democratic … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen to Deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, will deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on Friday, October 20, 2017. Professor Nguyen's lecture is titled "Rethinking the Tet Offensive Fifty Years Later." Although the Tet Offensive … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen Speaks on PRI Public Radio International About the 1968 Tet Offensive
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, spoke on PRI Public Radio International on September 26, 2017 about the Vietnam War's 1968 Tet Offensive. Professor Nguyen spoke on the sixth episode, titled "The Shock of the Tet," of PRI's series on the Vietnam War called "LBJ's War." From the … [Read more...]
