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| General Introduction | |
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| Vietnam's Revolutionary Tradition | |
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| First Appeal to the United States (June 18, 1919) | |
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| "The Path Which Led Me to Leninism" (1960) | |
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| Founding of the Doc-Lap Dong Minh Hoi (June 1941) | |
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| Imperial Abdication (August 1945) | |
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| Vietnam Declaration of Independence (September 2, 1945) | |
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| The Franco-Vietnamese War, 1945-1954: Origins of US Involvement | |
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| The French Return: Two State Department Views (April 1945) | |
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| Vietnam's Second Appeal to the United States: Cable to President Harry S. Truman (October 17, 1945) | |
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| Franco-Vietnamese Agreement on the Independence of Vietnam (March 1946) | |
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| Sponsoring French Colonialism: The State Department Decision (May 1950) | |
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| Taking Up the White Man's Burden: Two American Views (1954) | |
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| Vietnamese Victory: Dien Bien Phu, 1954 | |
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| The Geneva Cease-Fire (July 20, 1954) | |
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| Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference (July 21, 1954) | |
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| Close of the Geneva Conference (July 21, 1954) | |
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| Cold War Combat: Tactics After Geneva | |
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| Heroin and Politics in Saigon | |
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| Elections and Reunification Denied (1955) | |
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| "Vietnam's Democratic One-Man Rule" | |
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| A Flawed Commitment: US Endorsement, with Conditions, of Ngo Dinh Diem (1954) | |
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| Genesis of US Support for the Regime of Ngo Dinh Diem | |
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| Behind the Miracle of South Vietnam | |
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| The Legal Underpinnings of Government Terror in South Vietnam: Law 10/59 | |
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| Washington's Man in Saigon: American Commitment to South Vietnam (1961) | |
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| "No Other Road to Take": Origin of the National Liberation Front in Ben Tre | |
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| Founding Program of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam | |
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| "The Political and Military Line of Our Party" | |
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| US National Security Memorandum: Policy-Planning for Counterinsurgency (1962) | |
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| The Rise and Fall of "Counterinsurgency," 1961-1964 | |
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| The Buddhist Crisis of 1963: The View from Washington from The Pentagon Papers | |
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| Diem Must Go: The US Embassy in Saigon Orchestrates a Coup d'Etat (1963) | |
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| The Blueprint for an Americanized War (1963-1964) from The Pentagon Papers | |
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| The Gulf of Tonkin "Incidents" and Resolution (1964) | |
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| Rationale for Escalation: The US Government "White Paper" of 1965 | |
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| Refutation of the "White Paper" | |
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| "Defeat American Escalation": Report to the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1965) | |
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| Negotiations? Hanoi's Four Points (April 8, 1965) and Washington's Fourteen Points (January 7, 1966) | |
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| US Crisis Managers Choose from Among Diminishing Options (1965) | |
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| "We Won't Go" | |
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| "Freedom Draft Card" | |
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| Two Poems: "Afterthoughts on a Napalm-Drop on Jungle Villages near Haiphong" and "Truth Blazes Even in Little Children's Hearts" | |
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| "Declaration of Conscience Against the War in Vietnam" (1965) | |
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| "We Refuse - October 16" (1967) | |
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| "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority" (1967) | |
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| "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam" (April 1967) | |
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| "Deserters' Manifesto" (1968) | |
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| "Constraints of the Negro Civil Rights Movement on American Military Effectiveness" (1970) | |
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| "The Collapse of the Armed Forces" (1971) | |
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| "The Year of Decision - 1968" | |
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| "Remembering the Tet Offensive" | |
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| The Aftermath of Tet | |
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| "Peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia": Address to the Nation (March 31, 1968) | |
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| What Happened at My Lai? | |
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| Negotiating Positions of 1969: The NLF's Ten Points (May 8) and Nixon's Eight Points (May 14) | |
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| "Vietnamization" (November 3, 1969) | |
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| Explaining the "Secret War" in Laos (March 6, 1970) | |
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| Rationale for the Invasion of Cambodia (April 30, 1970) | |
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| Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Testimony to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (April 22, 1971) | |
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| The Ecological Impact of the Air War | |
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| Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam: The Paris Peace Accords (January 27, 1973) | |
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| US Promise of Postwar Reconstruction: Letter to DRV Prime Minister Pham Van Dong (February 1, 1973) | |
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| War Powers Resolution (1973) | |
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| The "Great Spring Victory: An Account of the Liberation of South Vietnam" (1975) | |
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| " 'The Last Chapter'?" | |
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| Epilogue: "The Vietnam War in American Memory" | |
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| App. A. Chronology | |
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| App. B. Glossary | |
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| App. C. Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |