Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty performs in 2007 in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of ...
Although U.S. combat forces withdrew in 1973, the Vietnam War didn’t officially end until April 30, 1975, when South Vietnam surrendered to communist North Vietnam. By that time, tens of thousands of ...
The Vietnam War Song Project is an epic undertaking, a YouTube channel with over 900 videos featuring songs about the war. The fact that there were so many songs released about the conflict says ...
The Vietnam War was a tragic and stressful time in the world, particularly for American soldiers, veterans, and the families they left behind. As a result of the very polarizing war, a lot of protest ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Gregory Ganz liked "I’m your Captain (Closer to Home)"(1970), which was written ...
Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, DC, where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan's “Masters of War ...
War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...