Heavily illustrated and welcoming to students and scholars of this infamous and pivotal time, America and the Vietnam War is a perfect companion to any course on the Vietnam War Era.

Andrew A. Wiest is Professor of History and Director of International Studies at The University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN.

Mary Kathryn Barbier is Assistant Profesor of History at Mississippi State University. She is the author of D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion.

Glenn Robins is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southwestern University. He is the author of The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk.

Table of Contents ? Introduction: Vietnam in History and Memory, Kathy Barbier? 1. Vietnam Divided: Regional History and the Vietnam Wars 1598-1975, Martin Loicano 2. Historians and the Origins of the Vietnam War, Matthew Masur 3. The Other Vietnam War, Andrew Wiest 4. The Women's Army Corps Goes to Vietnam, Heather Stur 5. Race and the Vietnam War, Curtis Austin 6. The Antiwar Movement, Amy Scott 7. Vietnam and the Conscientious Objector Experience, Philip Szmedra 8. The American POW Experience, Glenn Robins 9. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Healing From the War, Ray Scurfield 10. The Vietnam War and Literature, Maureen Ryan 11. Vietnam and Film, Thomas Doherty 12. The Soundtrack of Vietnam, Kim Herzinger 13. The Legacy of the Vietnam War for the U.S. Army, Jim Willbanks 14. Iraq as The Good War as Opposed to Vietnam, The Bad War, Lloyd Gardner Contributors Index??