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French colonization and Vietnam wars: Photographs and text tell the story of Vietnam under French colonial rule, its experience during twentieth-century wars with France and the United States, and its recent liberalization.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park: A memorial honoring North Carolinians who were killed in the Vietnam War. Each name is engraved in a free-standing monolith in a 230-foot wide basin scooped out of the earth.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences: Photographs and text tell the story of fishing, trade, and Chinese influence on the history and culture of Vietnam.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam: Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Contemporary life in Vietnam: Photographs and text describe contemporary life in Vietnam and the impact of economic and social reforms since the 1980s.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam: Photographs and text tell the story of the Cham and Khmer cultures of southern Vietnam and Cambodia, including a look at Angkor Wat and other great temples and cities.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

National borders: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 6; Some Vietnamese Communists today point to early anti-French communist groups that emerged in North Vietnam in the 1930s, but no serious nationalist or communist movements emerged before World War II. The Japanese invaded French Indochina in 1940 and, as everywhere,...

French Indochina: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 1; The current national borders of Southeast Asia were not established until after World War II. What is now northern Vietnam was ruled by China for more than a thousand years, between the second century BCE and...; By Lorraine Aragon.

National dress: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 5; Vietnamese national women's dress includes a long, high-necked silk tunic that is slit at the sides to the waist. Here the solid-color, pastel tunics are worn over matching full-length skirts, common to northern Vietnam, but they also are worn over white or...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Montagnards: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 13; The region around Mai Chau is home to ethnic minorities sometimes known in Vietnam as “hill tribes” or Montagnards (“mountain people”). In this part of northern Vietnam, the highland minority groups are mostly speakers of Tai languages,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Flag of Vietnam: The National flag of the Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, bears a yellow five-point star on a red field. This flag was adopted as the National flag of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) on November 30, 1955. It became...; Format: image/illustration

Defoliation: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 11; During the Vietnam War, much of the region's dense forest and human settlements were destroyed by U.S. bombings and defoliation campaigns. Defoliants, including “Agent Orange,” were combinations of herbicides intended to kill trees and other plants...; By Lorraine Aragon.

The Demilitarized Zone: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 10; The Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, was established when Vietnam was divided in 1954 into North and South. The DMZ was roughly a mile wide and more than 100 km (60 miles) long, from the western border with Laos to the ocean. The division...; By Lorraine Aragon.

An ancient Hindu kingdom: In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 1; This damaged brick and stone Cham tower stands overgrown by vegetation in a rural area south of Hai An, Vietnam. Tall arched forms are characteristic of these monuments built by ethnic Chams between the seventh and twelfth century; By Lorraine Aragon.

Fertile soils: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 2; This view from an airplane shows where the Mekong River joins Tonlé Sap Lake near Siem Reap in Cambodia. The waterways of the Mekong are the region's primary conduit for local trade and transportation. The Mekong River flows approximately 2,800 miles from...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Power and grace: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 12; Most of the original buildings of Hué's Imperial City date to ambitious efforts by Nguyen dynasty rulers in the 1800s to control both the north and south of Vietnam from a centrally located capital. While drawing on the symbolic model of the powerful Chinese...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Wet rice in the highlands: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 3; This photograph, and most of the photos that follow, was taken in Mai Chau, in the highlands of northwestern Vietnam. In most of Southeast Asia, the highlands are too dry or steep to construct the standing water pools required to nourish wet rice. Therefore,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial: This is the North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It is located between Lexington and Thomasville, North Carolina. It honors the North Carolinians who served and gave their lives in the Vietnam War.; Format: image/photograph

Schools: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 17; Vietnam requires nine years of schooling. Although it is a relatively poor country, the literacy rate for adults is reported to be over 90 percent.; By Lorraine Aragon.

Stone monument on U.S. crimes in Vietnam War at former U.S. Embassy in Saigon: A stone monument with a carved text detailing United States crimes in the Vietnam War stands outside the former U.S. Embassy in Saigon. When post-war relations between Vietnam and the U.S. improved following former Secretary of State Robert McNamara's public...; Format: image/photograph

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