Books in history and, more generally, the humanities are held in much higher regard than articles, and it’s part of my job to read a lot of them. But I generally prefer reading articles over books. One reason is that articles allow for a feel about subject matters beyond your field. Another reason is that it doesn’t take as much time to read them as you do books. (AI, of course, may eventually change all that.)
Continue reading “Five recent history articles albeit not in Vietnam Studies”Previous posts on “recent articles” include one from 2016 and two from 2019. This one is on the following articles:
- Ryan Wolfson-Ford, “The Partitioning of Laos: Lost Voices from both sides of the Mekong River in 1893 and the creation of modern Laos,” The Journal of Lao Studies 8 (December 2024): 1-21.
- Duong Van Bien, “The Global Catholic Missionary Societies and the Spread of Marian Devotion in Pre-Twentieth-Century Vietnam,” Manusya: Journal of Humanities (2024): 1-20.
Last week was the first time that I set foot in Central Texas, flying into Austin for archival research at several depositories in Austin and Waco. I spent two afternoons at the Briscoe Center for American History, and had a chance to visit the museum at the LBJ Presidential Library right next door.
Continue reading “Two surprises during a visit of the LBJ Library”
Source: University of Nebraska Medical Center website
Continue reading “Vietnamese nationalism in a popular hymn about the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Continue reading “A nineteenth-century Vietnamese account of the Lourdes apparitions”
I’d written a post about Năm Xưa Trên Cây Sồi [Years Ago on an Oak Tree], which has been, in my opinion, the most popular devotional Marian hymn in Vietnamese. This post is about a different hymn that happens to be about Our Lady of Fatima as well. Continue reading “Marian reparation in a Vietnamese hymn”
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