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The pages of UC Press’s journals have examined the War from a myriad of angles, from all sides of the conflict–its global economic and political impact, the role of student activism, memory in small-town America, and more.

Marking fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Allen L. Tran, author of A LIFE OF WORRY, looks at the lingering anxieties that have taken hold of the country.

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, co-editor of "The Cleaving," on the invisibility of Vietnamese American writers and poets and bringing light to their work.

We're proud to share that the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded Jana Lipman honorable mention, Ferrell Book Prize for In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates! Learn more about the book in the interview with historian Jana Lipman below, and visit

By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American PolicingJuly 17, 2020Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island off the coast of Vietnam called Côn Sơn.The photos depicted a wing of a