Posted by
Ellen on
6 May 2010, 10:35 am
The U.K. edition of A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives hits bookstores across the pond today — just as Britons head to the polls to elect a new Prime Minister. In a previous guest post, editor Michael H. Hunt addressed one of the more striking similarities between the Vietnam [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Asian Studies, Guest Bloggers, Michael H. Hunt, Military History.
Tagged ho chi minh, john f. kennedy, lbj, le duan, lyndon johnson, mao zedong, north vietnam, Richard Nixon, robert mcnamara, south vietnam, tet offensive, vietnam war, vo nguyen giap
Posted by
Beth on
14 February 2010, 6:41 pm
Today our author Wendy Rouse Jorae writes on the occasion of Chinese New Year. In her book, The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco 1850-1920, Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families–and particularly children–played important roles in its daily life. Facing barriers of [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Asian Studies, Guest Bloggers, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged arnold genthe, children of chinatown, children's history, chinatown, chinese new year, li shee, san francisco chinatown, year of the tiger
Posted by
Ellen on
6 January 2010, 4:54 pm
In this first post of the new year, new decade, as concerns over the nuclear programs of countries such as Iran and North Korea continue to make headlines, we welcome the following commentary from Shane J. Maddock, author of Nuclear Apartheid: The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present (forthcoming [...] Read more »
Filed under Asian Studies, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Military Studies.
Tagged afghanistan, al qaeda, barack obama, china, george w. bush, india, Iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad, mohammed khatami, new delhi, north korea, nuclear apartheid, nuclear power production, nuclear technology, nuclear threat, nuclear weapons, osama bin laden, pakistan, pyongyang, taliban
Posted by
Ellen on
16 August 2009, 3:17 pm
We welcome a guest post from Gregg Brazinsky, author of Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy, which we have just released in paperback. August 15 marks a date of both historical and personal significance. It was on August 15, 1945, that Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies and [...] Read more »
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Ellen on
11 August 2009, 11:31 am
Saturday, August 9, marked the 64th anniversary of America’s WWII bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. In the following guest post, J. Samuel Walker, author of Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, discusses the controversy over whether the use of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki served any military purpose and [...] Read more »
Filed under Asian Studies, Guest Bloggers, History, Military History.
Tagged atomic bomb, general thomas t. handy, george c. marshall, harry s. truman, henry l. stimson, Hiroshima, Japan, nagasaki, World War II
Posted by
admin on
19 May 2009, 9:12 am
From the Washington Post: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that former attorney general John D. Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III may not be sued by a Pakistani man who was seized in the United States after the 2001 terrorist attacks and who alleged harsh treatment because of his religion and ethnicity. The [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Asian Studies, Civil Rights, Current Events, Law / Legal History, Religion, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged ashcroft v iqbal, attorney general, eric muller, fbi, iqbal, john ashcroft, muslim, pakistan, racial profiling, religious profiling, robert mueller, supreme court
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admin on
6 August 2008, 9:31 am
The world witnessed the first wartime use of an atomic weapon on this day 63 years ago when the United States bombed Hiroshima. Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital at the time. He survived the bombing and helped to hold Hiroshima together in the aftermath. Amazingly, he also managed to record [...]
