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Upcoming TANC Events

Teaching the Vietnam War

Saturday, April 26, 2025
10 AM – 2 PM
Carolina Hall/Hurston Hall
Room 220

April 30, 2025 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. This timely workshop showcases lessons by and for teachers interested in how to teach “The American War” using diverse perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches. Presentations by high school teachers Duyen Tong (California), Chris Bunin (Virginia), Vincent Pham (New York), and Elena Samkin (North Carolina) draw on classroom experience, current scholarship, and creative pedagogy. Based on a 2022 NEH Summer Institute at the National Humanities Center led by Christian C. Lentz and Andy Mink, their lessons feature in a forthcoming issue of the American Historical Review. The keynote will be provided by Dr. Nguyen Hai Hong, senior lecturer at VinUniversity whose research focuses on politics and social change, grassroots democracy, and international relations in the Indo-Pacific.

Logistics:

  • This is an in-person event at UNC-Chapel Hill.
  • Lunch will be provided.
  • Mileage reimbursements up to $100, at $0.70/mile are available.

This event is part of 50 Years Later: The American War in Vietnam and is sponsored/organized by the Teaching Asia Network of the Carolinas with support from the Carolina Asia Center, the Department of Geography and Environment, and the National Humanities Center.

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