Photo by U.S. Marine Sergeant Bruce Allen Atwell. Combat photographs from Hue, Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive, Black & white photograph, 1968.

Remembering the American War in Vietnam: A 50-Year Retrospective

April 24–27, 2025

This conference explored the deeper meaning of the Vietnam War from the vantage point of a half-century—not merely the war itself but also its impact—with some of the most perceptive and recognized scholars and journalists of our Vietnam War story.

Keynote Speaker

Photo portrait of Fred Logevall.

Fred Logevall

Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and Professor of History, Harvard University

Professor Logevall is the author or editor of 10 books, most recently JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956 (Random House, 2020). His book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House, 2012), won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize, as well as the American Library in Paris Book Award and the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.