In cooperation with the Choices Program at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, USA), we are pleased to invite to a webinar on teaching the Vietnam War. Open to all, the webinar is specifically geared towards teaching the period in a European classroom.
Join the Choices Program at Brown University as we present the student readings, lessons, and videos in our curriculum unit The Vietnam War: Origins, History, and Legacies (forthcoming) as a model for applying multiperspectivity to the study of war. The session will highlight primary source quotes and lessons that prioritize the voices of women, Black, Latino, and indigenous soldiers and resistors. We’ll also examine a lesson on the experiences of Vietnamese refugees. We’ll end with a discussion on how a “long history” approach can support students’ understanding of historical memory and historiography.
The objectives of the webinar are to:
- Introduce the concept of “long history” when studying a particular war;
- Consider a framework for bringing underrepresented voices into the study of the war using the American War in Vietnam as an example;
- Examine how first person narratives can build empathy for an historical event that students might find distant and irrelevant to their lives today;
- Discuss ways to use the student readings, six lessons, and short videos in the unit in various classroom settings.
