BOOKS
Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival
As a five-year-old boy, Pao Lor joined thousands of Hmong who fled for their lives...
The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory
This book sheds crucial new light on the epochal U.S. interventions...
The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future
A compelling, lively narrative history of the peoples and cultures of the great river of...
The Long Reckoning
George Black cites an estimate that over 30,000 books have been written concerning the...
What We Inherit
“Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and completely engrossing, What We Inherit is not a book you’ll be forgetting...
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey―a solo bicycle voyage around...
A Short History of Laos, The Land in Between
A Short History of Laos, The Land in Between chronicles the history of Laos from ancient times...
Lao Legends
"Lao Legends," a collection of magnificent Lao tales traditionally passed down orally, now...
The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down
When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room...
A Great Place to Have a War
Through interviews and original reporting, Kurlantzick argues that America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s...
At War in the Shadow of Vietnam
This 1993 book was one of the first to tackle the full story of U.S. covert operations in Laos during...
Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs...
Voices From The Plain of Jars
This is During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos.
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey...
Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos
Twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visits Laos...
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