Vietnam+War+Wikiquest

**Background and Overview**
==== Go here for an historical overview of Vietnam and Southeast Asia History: 1900 to 1950 from the Asia for Educators website at Michigan State University ====

Multimedia Sources
Vietnam: A Television History from PBS. This is a link to Episode 1

The Vietnam War: A Story in Photographs from the National Archives provides documentary pictures of virtually every aspect of the war shot by military photographers between 1962 and 1975.

The Vietnam War from Kahn Academy

Listen to a podcast critique of a [|Pentagon Vietnam War website by historian Nick Turse] from the radio show //On the Media// (February 21, 2014).



**Multicultural Resources**

 * Spotlight on African Americans**: Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University

Click here for online excerpts from Amazon.com from UMASS Amherst Professor Christian Appy's book **//Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides//.**

Click [|here] to watch a video to see Muhammad Ali's speech about Vietnam War
 * [|Clay, aka Ali v. United States]** (1966-1971) details boxer Muhammad Ali's efforts to resist induction into the U.S. Army, a case that went to the Supreme Court and resulted in Ali being stripped of his heavyweight boxing championship.
 * He had converted to Islam and refused to serve, citing religious beliefs.
 * Convicted of draft evasion, fined $10,000, and had his license to box and his passport revoked.
 * Was barred from boxing during the prime of his career, from age 25 to age 29.
 * He regained the title defeating George Forman in 1974 (see "Tough Suspensions in Sports Don't Always Stick," //The New York Times//, January 12, 2014).

Click here for the Supreme Court decision in [|Clay v. United States (1971)]

Click here to read a newspaper article from //The Guardian// when Ali refused to go to war

For more on the Vietnam War, see
 * ** United States History II.20 **