Required Book
The following book is required for purchase.
- Viet Than Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016)
Additional Course Readings
Most of the rest of our readings will be available as pdfs in the Readings Folder of our Moodle page.
Recommended Reading
I’ll share a reading list for the course and update as we go.
General Works:
- Anna Maerker, Simon Sleight, Adam Sutcliffe, eds, History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present (2018)
- Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan, War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (2009), esp. chapter 1, “Setting the Framework”
- Jeffrey K. Olick et al, The Collective Memory Reader (2011), esp. selections from Ernest Renan, Maurice Halbwachs, Ian Hacking, and Andreas Huyssen
- Pierre Nora, ed., Realms of Memory (1996)
Vietnam and Memory
- The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (2018)
- Viet Than Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016)
- Phil Caputo, A Rumor of War (1977)
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)
- Truong Nhu Tang, A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (1986)
- Scenes from American films about Vietnam: The Deer Hunter (1978), Apocolypse Now (1979), Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
- Vietnam War Memorial at the College of Wooster (1987)
- Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial (designed by Maya Lin, completed 1982)
- The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert McNamara, dir. Errol Morris (2003)
World War I and Modern Memory
- Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
- Jay WInter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (1995)
- Ernst Friedrich, War on War! (1924)
- Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That (1929)
- Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1928)
- Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel (1920)
- The art of Kathe Köllwitz, George Grosz, John Heartfield
- World War I Memorials in Britain, France, and Germany
Other historical studies
- Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome (1991)
- Richard Evans, The Third Reich in History and Memory (2017)
- Studs Terkel, “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II (1984)
- David Blight, Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory (2001)
Other art
- Franciso Goya, The Disasters of War
Other films
- The Sorrow and the Pity, dir. Marcel Ophuls (1972)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun, dir. Rainer Maria Fassbinder (197?)
- Waltz With Bashir, dir. by Ari Folman (2008)
How to Write in College
- William Strunk and E.B.. White, The Elements of Style
- They Say, I Say
- Writing to Persuade