The latest U.S. history lecture from Green and Red Podcast co-host, and University of Houston history professor, Bob Buzzanco.
In this lecture he discusses “The Other 1950s”; Beatniks (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs). Rebels in film–James Dean and Brando. The sexual revolution of Kinsey and Hefner. Plus Mad Magazine.
And then he talks about The Vietnam War. Nationalism, French Colonization, World War II; Ho Chi Minh, Independence?, French return. Inventing South Vietnam, supporting Diem, Dienbienphu; DRVN vs. RVN; America goes in to Vietnam; Second Indochina War; Buddhist Crisis .
