U.S. Ambassador Mr. Theodore R. Britton Jr. talks about his World War II service as one of the first 20,000 Black Americans in the United States Marine Corps. Ambassador Britton graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Training at Montford Point in 1944, before serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II. After

“Imagine if there were a series of events that nearly caused an intercontinental nuclear war, and all of it was kept secret for decades.” That is what happened in November 1983 when the world came closer than it ever has to nuclear war. And hardly anyone recognized it. Join us to discuss

Historian and VBC Director Todd DePastino presents the fifth in his series on Vietnam’s history and culture by talking about how Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh movement went from being an American ally in WWII to the enemy in the First Indochina War. Ho returned to Vietnam for the first

Forty years ago on October 23, the US Marine Corps suffered its deadliest single-day attack since the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. On that day, in Beirut, Lebanon, a yellow Mercedes loaded with 12,000 pounds of explosives sped toward a four-story concrete building that served as headquarters and barracks for the 1st

Forty years ago on October 23, the US Marine Corps suffered its deadliest single-day attack since the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. On that day, in Beirut, Lebanon, a yellow Mercedes loaded with 12,000 pounds of explosives sped toward a four-story concrete building that served as headquarters and barracks for the 1st

Historian and VBC Director Todd DePastino presents the fourth in his series on Vietnam’s history and culture by telling the story of how Ho Chi Minh forged a nationalist independence movement from the remnants of a torn peasant society. Vietnam, in fact, still retains vestiges of its not-so-distant feudalistic past of peasant