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Areas of Research/Interest: U.S. foreign relations; U.S.-East Asian relations; Third World women and gender.

Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1895-1901, Harvard University Press, 1969

Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th century (with William Rosenberg), Oxford University Press, 1980

Promissory Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (with Rayna Rapp and Sonia Kruks), Monthly Review Press, 1983

The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, HarperCollins, 1991

Vietnam and America (with Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin and Bruce Franklin), Grove Press, 1985; rev. edition Anchor Books, 1995

Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975, two volumes, Library of American, 1998; Editorial Committee

Human Rights and Revolutions, edited with Lynn Hunt and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)

The New American Empire: A 21^st Century Teach-in On US Foreign Policy (edited with Lloyd Gardner)

Vietnam: A History in Documents (edited with John J. Fitzgerald and A. Tom Grunfeld)

Essays:

" Incident at No Gun Ri," in Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the 20^th century; ed by Omar Bartov, Atina Grossmann and Mary Nolan (The New Press, 2002)

"The Age of Global Power," in Rethinking American History in a Global Age, edited by Thomas Bender, (UC Berkeley, 2002)

"Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh is Gonna Win!" in Why the North Won the Vietnam War, edited by Marc Jason Gilbert (NY: Palgrave, 2002)

"Remembering to Forget," in Mark Philip Bradley & Patrice Petro, Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights, (Rutgers Univ Press, 2002).

"In the Combat Zone," Radical History (Winter, 2003)

"Afterword: The Anteroom of War," in Joanne Meyerowitz, ed, History and September 11th (Temple University Press, 2003)

"Ground Zero: Enduring War," in Mary Dudziak, ed., September 11: A Transformative Moment? Culture, Religion and Politics in an Era of Uncertainty (Duke University Press,  2003)

"Resisting State Terror: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement," in Alvin Soh and Mark Selden, eds., War and State Terrorism: The U.S. and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)

"Fighting While Negotiating," The Johnson Years, volume 4, edited Lloyd Gardner (University ofTexas Press, 2003)

"Coree: La Guerre d'apres-Guerre," in Des Conflits en mutation? De la guerre froide aux nouveux conflits, Danielle Domergue-Cloarce et Antoine Coppolani, eds. (Editions Complexe, 2003)

"Still Stuck in the Big Muddy," Cold War Triumphalism: Exposing the Misuse of History after the Fall of Communism, ed. Ellen Schrecker (New York: The New Press, 2004)

"One Empire, Under God," in Post- Cold War Europe/Post Cold-war America, edited by Rob Kroes, et al (University ofAmsterdam), 2004

"Korea: the Post-war War," History Workshop Journal, 51: 2001

Berkshire Women's History Prize for The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990

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