HIST2475 · History
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course will examine America's thirty-year military involvement in Southeast Asia, one of the most controversial episodes in U.S. history. Students will read a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, from recently declassified state and Defense Department documents to poetry and short stories. Course readings are selected from various points on the left-right political spectrum, with both "hawks" and "doves" receiving their day in court. Lectures will include the origins of the Cold War; the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies; antiwar activism and other Vietnam era movements; and American soldiers' experience during and after service in Vietnam.
Course experience
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Organization
4.8 / 5
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Challenge
4.5 / 5
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Attendance
4.2 / 5
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Assignments
4.3 / 5
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Weekly effort
~3
hours per week
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Student perspective
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Dec 15, 2025 · Historical comment
If you are interested in this stuff feel free to take it, but its an annoying amount of memorization and you will be docked if you don't use the exact terminology he is looking for on the exams. Cool dude, but there are easier electives if that is what you are looking for.
Dec 3, 2025 · Historical comment
just take the class.
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Fall 2023
1 sectionFall 2022
1 sectionFall 2021
1 sectionFall 2020
1 section