Books
Eve of Destruction: A Social History of Viet Nam’s Royal City, 1957-1967 (in progress)
Voices from the Everyday South: Civilian Lives During the Viet Nam War (Co-edited with Alex-Thai Vo, in progress)
Articles & Book Chapters
Seeds of Activism: Huế’s “People of the Pagoda” and the Buddhist Mobilization of 1963 (under review)
Voices From The Center: Lập Trường and Imagining an Alternative Viet Nam (under review)
“John F. Kennedy through the Lens of a Divided Vietnam” (with A. Lillie) in Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy, Cyrus Schayegh ed., Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
“Hue Prepared for a Holiday, Then the War Came,” New York Times series “Vietnam’67,” February 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/hue-prepared-for-a-holiday-then-the-war-came.html
“The Diversification of State Power: Vietnam’s Alternative Path toward Budget Transparency, Accountability, and Participation” (with J. Warren) in Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability, Sanjeev Khagram, Archon Fung, & Paolo de Renzio, ed. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, 2013.
Four entries in America’s Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan, James H. Willbanks, ed. Santa Barbara: ABC- CLIO, 2011.
Book Reviews
On the Ho Chi Minh trail: the blood road, the women who defended it, the legacy by Sherry Buchanan (London: Asia Ink, 2021), The Sixties, DOI: 10.1080/17541328.2022.2064965
The Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building By Tuong Vu and Sean Fear, eds. (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2020), Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 79, Issue 4, November 2020, pp. 1059-1060.
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017), Journal of Vietnamese Studies 14.2, May 2019, 161-165.
Digital Publications
myvietnamstory.org : website of my current project My Viet Nam Story: Oral History Project at UC Irvine
Publications in Vietnamese
“Có những ngày 30/04 trước năm 1975 ‘không nhuốm mầu chiến trận’,” BBC Vietnamese, April 2021, https://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/forum-56886545
“Việt Nam Cộng Hoà, 1955-1975: Kinh Nghiệm Kiến Quốc,” US-Vietnam Review, September 2020, https://usvietnam.uoregon.edu/viet-nam-cong-hoa-1955-1975-kinh-nghiem-kien-quoc/
Kể Chuyện Thăng Long Hà Nội [Stories of Thăng Long – Hà Nội] (with assistants), five vols. Hà Nội: Kim Đồng Press, 2010, reprinted 2012, 2014-2017.
“Hội Bắc Kỳ Công Thương Đồng Nghiệp và Vấn Đề Bảo Vệ Quyền Lợi của Giới Tư Sản Việt Nam” [“The Association of Industrial and Commercial Employees of Tonkin and the Protection of the Rights of Vietnamese Asset Owners”] (with Phạm Xanh). Journal of History Studies, Issue 381, Vol. 1, January 2008, 10-20.
Three-part documentary series “Phố Hiến, Cái Nôi Văn Hóa Việt” [“Phố Hiến, The Cradle of Vietnamese Culture”] (Chief Editor, Assistant Director, and Screenwriter), 2005.