COURSE INFORMATION
TEACHING FELLOW:
Emma Herman eherman@fas.harvard.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 8:30-10:30 AM; other hours as available. See schedule and book via Calendly Links to an external site.
Oranda Hou orandahou@hks.harvard.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays, 10-12 AM; See schedule and book via Calendly Links to an external site.
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Course Description
This course covers the long struggle for Vietnam, waged between 1940 and 1975, with particular attention to the long period of direct American involvement. The events will be considered in their relationship to Vietnam's history, to U.S. politics and society, and to the concurrent Cold War. The class structure will combine lecture, question-and-answer, and section discussion, and we’ll also view occasional film clips (and one full film) in class.
Professor Fredrik Logevall
Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of History, Harvard University.
A specialist on U.S. foreign relations history and modern international history, he was previously the Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University, where he also served as vice provost and as the director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Logevall is the author or editor of ten 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 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize, as well as the 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.
His other recent works include America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (with Campbell Craig; 2nd ed., Belknap/Harvard, 2020), and the college-level textbook A People and A Nation: A History of the United States (with Jane Kamensky et al; 11th ed., Cengage, 2018).
A native of Stockholm, Sweden, Logevall holds a PhD in History from Yale University.
He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.