It's November 1971. and American air raids against North Vietnam are suspended. But, the war is still far from being over.

Below, we outline nine key moments that defined the Vietnam War. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu // March 13–May 7 1954; Operation Ranch Hand // 1962–1971; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident // August 2 ...

The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, illuminates the struggle of fearless journalists who uncovered the truth of that war in the face of what we now would call “fake news ...

On Saturday, May 29, 1971, the veterans, who were accompanied by hundreds of residents, arrived at the Lexington Battle Green, the site of the first battleground of the American Revolution.

A book about the Battle of Kontum that takes issue with Stanley Karnow’s description of the battle in his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Vietnam War has won the 2013 William E. Colby Award.

Communist forces overran the key southern city of Hue triggering one of the biggest battles of the Vietnam War. ... In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean.

May 7, 1954: Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh forces defeat the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, effectively ending the 7 ½-year Indochina War. July 1954: At a conference in Geneva, world powers ...

The images changed how the world saw Vietnam, but especially how Americans saw their country, soldiers and the war itself, which ended 50 years ago this month.

Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston Elise Lemire. Univ. of Pennsylvania, $45 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8122-5297-2 ...