I'd love to learn more about my heritage and history, but all the pop sources I can find are either quite dubious or just focus on the Vietnam war.

My family isn't much help either. None of them are historians and all sources they give me seem to have a very nationalist slant or strange credentials.

For example, I've been constantly recommended to watch Professor Stephen Young's lectures on the History of Vietnam.. Looking at his credentials, though, he has background in law, not history. And he starts kind of ranting about Communism and the Vietnamese social character and that all makes me very suspicious about some kind of Victor Davis Hanson-esque attempt to connect political sensibilities of modern day peoples with ancient history. But, at the same time, I have no idea how to verify any of this, because he could be correct!

Does anyone know any sources I can take a look at?