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Did the News Media, Led by Walter Cronkite, Lose the War in Vietnam?

Barbie Zelizer of the Annenberg School for Communication was cited for her assertion that news photographs of the Vietnam War were just as influential on public opinion as television coverage.

Honoring the fallen: a Q&A with Ken Lum

The School of Design professor and chair of the Fine Arts Department discusses the challenge of designing a war memorial, and shares which memorials he finds most compelling.

Reexamining the Vietnam War, four decades after America’s defeat

An Asia expert looks back on lessons learned and unlearned, and the war’s effect on the Vietnam generation and the country today.

Stay in School or Get Married? In 1965, the President’s Daughter Had to Choose.

Julie Fairman of the School of Nursing contextualized mid-century demands on aspiring nurses to remain unmarried.

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French lit professor discusses her new book, a stranger-than-fiction tale of finance and fashion

Joan DeJean’s book of French society in the 17th and 18th century is not unlike a modern soap opera, complete with high fashion, murder, bad investments, and family betrayal.

Scholar of Britain discusses the royal family and upcoming nuptials

Historian Alex Chase-Levenson talks the impending wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and Americans’ fascination with the British royal family.

This Is What Killed Medieval Sultan Who Conquered Jerusalem During the Crusades

At Friday’s 25th annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference, the Perelman School of Medicine’s Stephen Gluckman announced that Sultan Saladin was most likely killed by typhoid. Gluckman came to the conclusion after ruling out plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, and malaria, which didn’t fit descriptions of Saladin’s symptoms.

‘By the People’ Critiqued: A Textbook Case of Toxic Politics

The Graduate School of Education’s Jonathan Zimmerman penned an op-ed in defense of “By the People,” an AP history textbook used in dozens of California high schools. The book, Zimmerman said, was unfairly lambasted on some conservative news and information platforms.

The Morris Arboretum was partly funded by beer, says brewery historian

A brewery historian will speak at the Arboretum on April 19 about the Morris family’s status as Philadelphia’s second—and arguably most significant—brewing clan.

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Korea expert discusses looming U.S.-North Korea summit

Eugene Park, director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies, examines the forthcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.

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