https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/manifesto.htm.
Project instructions:
Purpose: To contrast the content, style, context, and positions of two primary source documents.
Topic: Select two sets of documents, either:
The Final Declaration of The Geneva Conference: On Restoring Peace in Indochina, July 21, 1954? https://vietnam.vassar.edu/doc2.html and “The American Response to the Geneva Declarations, 3 July 21, 1954” https://vietnam.vassar.edu/doc3.html
OR
Manifesto of the Eighteen. Saigon. April 1960? https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/manifesto.htm and Memorandum to President Kennedy from Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith on Vietnam, 4 April 1962? https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon2/doc112.htm
Process: Summarize, analyze, and evaluate the documents. Compare and contrast them. Especially consider how the documents give different perspectives on similar
Historical events.
Consider these questions:
– What is this document about?
– What does the author say about the subject?
– What seems to be the purpose of the document?
– What was the historical context of the document?
– Do the documents conflict in any aspect?
– Who are the writers? Are they credible?
– Who is the intended audience?
– How are the documents structured?
– What does the writer's language and word choice, reveal about the writer's opinions? Give examples.
– Which document do you find more credible and more persuasive? Why?