In his wide-ranging book "American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity," historian Christian Appy explores the complex history of the war.
One can only imagine the Republican outcry if a CIA operative was beheaded by ISIS, a U.S. bomber shot down by Russia, and an American plane blown up by ISIS on Obama’s watch.
For all the recent discussions about Woodrow Wilson and racism, we are still failing to grapple fully with Wilson’s involvement in the developing racial ideology of the early twentieth century.
