In his examination of the historical literature on the Vietnam War, where does Simon Toner say he concentrates his effort?

In his examination of the historical literature on the Vietnam War, where does Simon Toner say he concentrates his effort? What were the categories into which he says the initial scholarship fell? What kind of shift does he say has occurred in the historical writing on the subject? According to Toner, who are some orthodox, revisionist, and post-revisionist historians and what titles have they written? What is Lewis Sorleys main argument? What types of evidence does he use? How does he use particular pieces of evidence to make specific points? Which one of Toners categories does Sorleys work fall into?

Your assignments this semester include reading a book chapter and a journal article. The chapter is a historiographical essay, Simon Toner, Interminable: The Historiography of the Vietnam War, 19451975, in A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present, vol. 2, 1st ed., ed. Christopher R. W. Dietrich (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020), 855-887. The article is Lewis Sorley, Vietnams Better War, Orbis 57 (2013): 516-531.
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References:

For Argument Structure: Wayne C. Booth, et al., The Craft of Research, 4th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016). This is available online from the BMCC Library web site. I am also attaching a PDF file that addresses the structure of arguments.

For citation using the footnote format: The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, (University of Chicago Press), and Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, (University of Chicago Press). Any edition of these titles is acceptable. The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), chapter 14.24 shows how to create footnotes for journal articles. It is available on Electronic Reserves (ERES) from the BMCC Library. For how to use quotations, see CMS chapter 13.1 13.6, Quotations and Dialogue, available online through the New York Public Library.

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