Rice Univesrity Logo
    • FAQ
    • Deposit your work
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   Rice Scholarship Home
    • Graduate and Undergraduate Student Research
    • Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards
    • View Item
    •   Rice Scholarship Home
    • Graduate and Undergraduate Student Research
    • Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Tet Offensive: How Lyndon B. Johnson Won the Battle but Lost the War

    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Wang-Bibliography.pdf
    Size:
    31.08Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    View/Open
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Wang-Essay.pdf
    Size:
    13.91Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    View/Open
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Wang-Project.pdf
    Size:
    81.34Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    View/Open
    Author
    Wang, Tim
    Date
    2017
    Abstract
    Historians have often depicted the relationship between freed African Americans and Freedmen’s Bureau Agents as being a relationship where African Americans often depended on bureau agents for protection, guidance in understanding politics and labor, etc. This paper argues that bureau agents and freedpeople had a more complex and interdependent relationship in which bureau agents also depended on African Americans. Black civilians served as informants to bureau agents providing them with important local knowledge to better understand the physical spaces in which they operated. This paper will rely primarily on the assistant state commissioner’s Freedmen’s Bureau Records for Texas and the Texas Field Office Records to support these claims. Bureau agents used this information to request assets from the state commissioners in the form of military manpower, supplies, and other things to help implement Reconstruction policies in Texas in an effort to extend liberties associated with citizenship to newly freed African Americans.
    Description
    Submission to the Friends of Fondren Library Undergraduate Research Awards, 2017. This paper was originally prepared for Course HIST 291 (Fall 2016): 20TH C. AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, given by Professor Douglas Brinkley, Department of History.
    Citation
    Wang, Tim. "Tet Offensive: How Lyndon B. Johnson Won the Battle but Lost the War." (2017) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/94003.
    Keyword
    History
    Publisher
    Rice University
    Citable link to this page
    https://hdl.handle.net/1911/94003
    Rights
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
    Link to License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Collections
    • Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards [96]

    Home | FAQ | Contact Us | Privacy Notice | Accessibility Statement
    Managed by the Digital Scholarship Services at Fondren Library, Rice University
    Physical Address: 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
    Mailing Address: MS-44, P.O.BOX 1892, Houston, Texas 77251-1892
    Site Map

     

    Searching scope

    Browse

    Entire ArchiveCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsType

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Home | FAQ | Contact Us | Privacy Notice | Accessibility Statement
    Managed by the Digital Scholarship Services at Fondren Library, Rice University
    Physical Address: 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005
    Mailing Address: MS-44, P.O.BOX 1892, Houston, Texas 77251-1892
    Site Map