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
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.
Presenters
Beth Bailey
Foundation Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas
Robert K. Brigham
Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, Vassar; specialist on the history of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the Vietnam War
Greg Daddis
(Colonel, U.S. Army retired), Professor of History and USS Midway Chair in Modern U.S. Military History, San Diego State University
Frances FitzGerald
Pulitzer Prize winning-journalist and author
Richard Immerman
Professor and Edward J. Buthusiem Distinguished Faculty Fellow in History and Marvin Wachman Director Emeritus of Temple University’s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy
David Kieran
Colonel Richard R. Hallock Distinguished Chair in Military History, Columbus State University
Ron Milam
Vietnam veteran, Professor of History and Executive Director, Institute for Peace and Conflict, Texas Tech University
Peter Osnos
Author, journalist, publisher; former foreign and national editor, Washington Post
Jim Sterba
Foreign correspondent, war correspondent, and national correspondent for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
Kara Vuic
Lance Corporal Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in 20th-Century America, Texas Christian University
Jim Willbanks
Vietnam veteran, General of the Army George C. Marshall Chair of Military History Emeritus, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Presentations
The Girls Next Door: American Women in the Vietnam War
Kara Vuic
The War Within the War
Beth Bailey
The Vietnam War as a Problem of Language
Greg Daddis