Six decades later, the American War in Vietnam remains a controversial and influential event. Stuart has been collecting the conflict for a quarter century, building one of the most important archives in private hands. He owns letters by the great leaders of the war (Ho Chi Minh, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon); the American serviceman and servicewoman (diaries, letters home, photo albums) and the pro-war and anti-war movements (posters, bumper stickers, leaflets). Stuart will select about ten manuscripts from his collection and show how they illuminate the war and what they can teach us today. Plus a Q&A.
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