Examines the immediate and long-term impact of the Vietnam War on a wide range of people and social groups, both Americans in the United States and in Vietnam.

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Divisions within the containment generation : U.S. policy makers and the Vietnam War / Joseph A. Fry -- "The needs are enormous, the time short" : American advisers and the invention of South Vietnam, 1954-1960 / James M. Carter -- Vietnam military personnel / Carol Reardon -- Antiwar activists / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones -- The silent majority / Kenneth J. Heineman -- Religious communities and the Vietnam War / Jill K. Gill -- Women and the Vietnam War / Natasha Zaretsky -- Wartime journalists / Clarence R. Wyatt -- African Americans and the Vietnam War / James E. Westheider -- "Labor's falling dominoes" : the AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War era / Edmund F. Wehrle -- Students and political activism / Caroline Hoefferle.