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Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, as seen from Maya Lin's sculpture, Women's Table. The sculpture records the number of women enrolled at Yale over its history; female undergraduates were not admitted until 1969. Yale University Library, which holds over 15 million volumes, is the third-largest university collection in the United States.
In 43 AD, Emperor Guangwu of Han sent his famous general Ma Yuan (Vietnamese: Mã Viện) with a large army to quell the revolt. After a long, difficult campaign, Ma Yuan suppressed the uprising and the Trung Sisters committed suicide to avoid capture. To this day, the Trưng Sisters are revered in Vietnam as the national symbol of Vietnamese ...
A brief history of the CIA (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell 2014). Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, The CIA and American Democracy (Yale University 1989). Stanley Karnow, Vietnam. A History. The first complete account of Vietnam at war (New York: Viking 1983). Andrew F. Krepinevich, The Army and Vietnam (Johns Hopkins University 1986). Ralph McGehee, Deadly ...
The location of Vietnam. Vietnamese studies (Vietnamese: Việt Nam học), or Vietnamology, [1] in general is the study of Vietnam and things related to Vietnam. It refers, especially, to the study of modern Vietnamese and literature, history, ethnology, and the philological approach, respectively. The specialist in this area is called a ...
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
Yale University Press: Publication date. January 11, 1999 ... ISBN: 9780300016369: Yale: A History is a 1999 book written by Brooks Mather Kelley on the history of ...
He joined the History Department at Yale University in 1990, and founded the award-winning Cambodian Genocide Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies in 1994, and the comparative Genocide Studies Program in 1998. Kiernan currently teaches history courses on Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War, and genocides through the ages. [5]
The Âu Việt traded with the Lạc Việt, the inhabitants of the state of Văn Lang, located in the lowland plains to Âu Việt's south, in what is today the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam, until 258 or 257 BCE, when Thục Phán, the leader of an alliance of Âu Việt tribes, invaded Văn Lang and defeated the last Hùng king.