James G. Blight, a Brown University scholar who advised Errol Morris on his Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War (2004), cowrote and narrates this exercise in “virtual history,” which examines ...

Introduction : toward a tragedy -- Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam : averting a quagmire -- Democracy at bay : Diem as mandarin -- Counteraction to counterinsurgency : the military solution -- ...

The Eisenhower administration and Indochina: 1954-1960 -- No war in Laos: January-June 1961 -- New effort in Vietnam: January-August 1961 -- War or peace? September-November 1961 -- Limiting the ...

Dave Weiner (Letters, April 1) is upset, saying that I was spreading disinformation when stating my opinion that JFK was assassinated by the CIA because his October 1963 Memorandum 263 stated he ...

Many people of my generation love to wonder what President Kennedy’s real intentions were on Vietnam: Would he have gotten us out or deepened our involvement, as his successor did? I confess to having ...

After the National Archives released on Tuesday night more than 63,000 pages in nearly 2,200 PDF files, historians, journalists, scholars, hobbyists and conspiracists are scouring them for new details ...