May 6-7, 2000

Teaching the Vietnam War

A History Institute for Teachers

Sponsored by the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education
A Division of the Foreign Policy Research Institute
At the Gregg Conference Center, American College
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education held a History Institute for Teachers on May 6-7, 2000. A group of 42 teachers from 16 states were in attendance. This weekend-long program featured a series of talks and workshops on the Vietnam War by a distinguished group of scholars, including George Herring, author of The Longest War; David Eisenhower, author of Eisenhower: At War and coauthor of a forthcoming book on 1968; Bruce Kuklick, the Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania; Lloyd Gardner, the Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University; Adam Garfinkle, author of Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement; Douglas Pike, Research Director of The Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University; Paul Dickler, a history teacher at Neshaminy High School and a senior fellow of FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education; and Walter McDougall, director of FPRI’s History Academy, editor of Orbis, Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Vietnam veteran.

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