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Some days I entertain the insane thought that, if it weren’t for Henry Kissinger helping to prolong the Vietnam War, I wouldn’t have been born.

We accepted that we were free to choose our life’s direction and obligated to choose morally, but our choices were all so unpalatable. There was no exit, no honorable option.

If Martin Luther King Jr. were to spend the night now in the second floor Camden bedroom where he reportedly stayed as a seminary student ...

In February, a person or group desecrated hundreds of headstones at the Wissinoming cemetery. Donors from around the world contributed $300,000 to repair the damage.

The documents include more than 3,000 that have never been seen by the public and more than 30,000 that have been previously released, but with redactions.

As a third-generation Vietnamese-American of mixed heritage, I didn’t come to grips with how the Vietnam War shaped my mother’s life and her journey to the United States.

Prosecutors and the defense team for Mohammed Jabbateh delivered closing arguments. The jury must now decide if he committed fraud and perjury on U.S. immigration documents.

Surgery in the nineteenth-century was pretty gruesome – a lot of blood, pain, saws and no sanitation.  In fact, operating theaters use ...

I don’t feel confused about the Vietnam War. I am certain that my life is a result of it. And I have dedicated the last eight years of my life to the future of my community.

Guests: Lindsey Fitzharris, Dan Lamothe Surgery in the nineteenth-century was pretty gruesome – a lot of blood, ...

This Saturday marks the 94th anniversary of the first public planetarium show given at the German model for The Franklin Institute, the D ...

Tonight at the National Constitution Center, the 2017 Liberty Medal will be given to U.S. Sen. John McCain for a lifetime of sacrifice and service to our country.

WHYY hosted a series of public events relating to the series, and we asked attendees to tell us about how the Vietnam War still affects them today.

This poem was originally published in "Khmer Girl" (RJ Communications, 2014), and is dedicated to women and the Vietnamese people.