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...

Nothing Is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam

Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and...

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...

What We Brought Across the River: Memoir of a Lao-American

Amber reflects on the journey of growing up as a Lao-American girl in the United States, the daughter of parents who fled the Secret War to build a new life.

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...

The Saigon Sisters:
Privileged Women in the Resistance

The Saigon Sisters offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in...

Bomb Children

Half a century after the CIA's Secret War in Laos—the largest bombing campaign in history—explosive remnants of war...

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...

Legacies of War Gallery Book | CCAD

During the Fall 2024 semester, Legacies of War and Columbus College of Art & Design collaborated in a learning project to create artworks in response to the Legacies of War mission.

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