Part One: Materials / Alex Vernon and Catherine Calloway
Part Two: Approaches. Introduction / Alex Vernon
Historical and cultural contexts. The Vietnam War: a very short history / Benjamin Goluboff
The things we carry: lessons from O'Brien in American national mythology / Jen Dunnaway
Teaching The nuclear age in the second nuclear age / Doug Davis
"Thinking seriously about Canada": defamiliarizing O'Brien's work from a Canadian perspective / Christopher Kocela
Teaching The things they carried with Duong Thu Huong's Novel without a name / Derek C. Maus
Literary contexts. O'Brien in an American war literature class / Alex Vernon
Teaching O'Brien in the context of war narratives / Zivah Perel
Going after Cacciato in a course on the literature of the Vietnam War / Edward J. Rielly
Teaching In the lake of the woods as a historical novel / Jeremy Green
Teaching Going after Cacciato as an American road narrative / Russell Morton Brown
From short-story cycle to ensemble novel: teaching July, July / Catherine Calloway
Interpretive contexts. Story and discourse in The things they carried / Milton J. Bates
Teaching Going after Cacciato and The things they carried in the context of trauma / Mark Heberle
Doing gender and going native in "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" / Elisabeth H. Piedmont-Marton
Critical angles: reading soldier-author Tim O'Brien and Going after Cacciato / Tobey C. Herzog
Identity in 10,000 miles of nameless, faceless space: a postmodern approach to In the lake of the woods / Jennifer Peterson
Diving into the text beneath the text: gender and revenge in Tomcat in love / Catherine Calloway
Classroom contexts. What high school students carry to and from The things they carried / Kathleen M. Puhr
Teaching Hemingway and O'Brien in an inner-city high school / Reita Gorman
The things they carried and the first-year college experience / Eric G. Waggoner
Writing across the disciplines with The things they carried / Brenda M. Boyle
How to write a true essay: The things they carried in the composition classroom / David Magill
Questioning language: The things they carried in an upper-level literature class / Janis E. Haswell.
