Instruction
link to what the professor expects- https://uhv.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0028dff1-5337-4d40-a74f-36980b5c415d
REQUIRED READING
Keith Beattie, The Scar That Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam War (New York: New
York University Press, 1998). [LICENSE: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; LINK:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfbwd; ISBN: 0-8147-1326-2]
ESSAY PROMPT
The Vietnam War loomed over American life long after the United States formally disentangled
itself from the conflict. In The Scar that Binds, Keith Beattie explores how American culture
attempted to come to terms with “Vietnam.” Using your reading of Keith Beattie’s The Scar That
Binds, answer the following prompt: how did American culture grapple with the Vietnam War?
BASIC FORMATTING & GUIDELINES
Font: 12-pt., Times New Roman, double-spaced
Margins: 1”
Words: 1200-1500 (4-5 full, double-spaced pages)