At the same time, though, the media and entertainment industries were rapidly evolving, and the modern celebrity was born.

John Lennon, the mastermind behind Happy Xmas (War Is Over), created a Christmas classic with a powerful anti-war message.

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Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

Classic rock will never truly die. There’s just too much great music from the 20th century to sift through and enjoy. That being said, a select few classic rock songs make it to my regular rotation, ...

This progressive rock classic comes straight from the Dutch outfit Focus, and it was quite a big hit in the Netherlands when it first dropped in 1971. The original version of this song didn’t really ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

One of the most powerful photographs from the Vietnam War shows a young South Vietnamese girl running down a street, naked and crying. Behind her, South Vietnamese planes had just pummeled her village ...

Perhaps historical amnesia is not such a bad thing, despite George Santayana’s warning in 1905’s “The Life of Reason” that those who “cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” One reason ...

It could once have been said that the Vietnam War was the most photographed war in history, but you can’t say that anymore, because today everybody has a camera. Everything, it seems, is photographed ...