The First Indochina War began as France attempted to reassert colonial control over Vietnam after World War II, but the conflict quickly escalated into a brutal Cold War battleground. Communist-led ...

PARIS – PARIS (AP) — Gen. Marcel Bigeard, who led France's elite parachute forces in colonial wars in independence-seeking Indochina and Algeria after serving in the French Resistance in World War II, ...

In French Indochina, the Bearcat became a close support aircraft in a brutal colonial war far removed from the naval air ...

When I was a Maryknoll seminarian in the 1950s, we all had to read a biography of Blessed (now Saint) Theophane Venard, a priest of the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) who was martyred ...

Our diverse and globalized twenty-first century world was made by the earlier material, social, and political exchanges that happened during the modern period (c. 1875 and after). This course is an ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Over a century after Paul Doumer, former governor general of French Indochina, wrote his memoir on the Indochinese, his book continues to attract Vietnamese and foreign experts ...

People participate in a parade commemorating the victory of Dien Bien Phu battle in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Hau Dinh On May 7, Vietnam jubilantly celebrated the ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

A new book explains how Andre Malraux became a human rights activist in French Indochina after failing as a thief. For the last year I lived in Phnom Penh, I rented an apartment in the French colonial ...