A central issue in the contentious scholarship on the Vietnam War centers on whether American military intervention in 1965 was doomed to fail or had the potential to achieve its objectives. To ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Fredrik Logevall says foreign policy realists who are critics of President Obama should take heart. According to Logevall, Obama exercises a flexible “principled ...

A central issue in the contentious scholarship on the Vietnam War centers on whether American military intervention in 1965 was doomed to fail or had the potential to achieve its objectives. To ...

Fredrik Logevall examines President John F. Kennedy from birth into his own rise to power. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall examines the coming-of-age of President John F. Kennedy, ...

[REBROADCAST] Why did Vietnam became the setting for one of the longest and bloodiest struggles of the entire post-1945 era, and why did two Western powers, first France and then the United States, ...

Fredrik Logevall, director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, was appointed vice provost for international relations. Logevall said his experiences working with Alice Pell, the ...

Prof. Fredrik Logevall, history, was “stunned” when he learned Monday that he had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam ...

2012-10-07T15:58:03-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/25d/307865-m.jpgCornell University historian Fredrik Logevall talked about the origins of the Vietnam War ...

Jeff Glor talks to Fredrik Logevall about "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam." Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? Fredrik Logevall: As I was ...