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Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer at C-SPAN, and this week on the Lectures and History podcast, we discuss differing schools of thought on the Vietnam War.

The conflict lasted from 1955 to 1975, with most of the fighting happening in South Vietnam.

At the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., there are 58,300 names of members of the U.S. armed forces that were killed or missing

in action from the conflict. In 1995, Vietnam's official estimate listed two million civilians

on both sides dead, including some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters.

Hillsdale College History Professor Mark Moyer discusses competing interpretations of the necessity of the war, including if the conflict was ever winnable for the United States.

Stay tuned, class starts right after this.

Do you know any social studies, media, or literature teachers in grade 6 through 12?

Encourage them to participate in C-SPAN student cam video documentary

competition. With the upcoming November election, we're asking young people to address the theme,

your message to the president. What issue is most important to you or your community?

$100,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to students and teachers. To learn more, go to

student cam.org. Today our subject is going to be the major schools of thought on the Vietnam War.

And as we talked about in the last lecture, the stakes in the debate over the Vietnam War are very high.

For many decades, and to some extent till today,

the competing interpretations of the war have dominated American debates

over American national security strategy and over American national identity. And so for this reason, among others,

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