The Vietnam War
Essential Books:
Robert McMahon, ed. Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War (Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
Andrew Rotter, ed. Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology (1999)
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War. A Novel of North Vietnam (New
York: Riverhead Books, 1993)
Christian Appy, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides (Viking, 2003)
George Herring. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1975 (2001)
Melvin Small, At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War (Ivan R. Dee, 2005)
Online Vietnam Resources:
There are a zillion sites related to the Vietnam War. Many of them are good educational sources; many more are junk. As you begin introducing yourself to the vast world of web resources on the War, it is important to start with some solid sites. Check out their links, etc. Below are a few of the best.
Edwin E. Moise's Vietnam War Bibliography: This is your essential starting point. Far and away the best online bibliography of Vietnam War books and articles. Finding a book here is no guarantee that it will be in the library, but this is the place to start, and it is organized extremely well by subject.
TAPE RECORDINGS:
The White House Tapes - Secret White House Tape Recordings of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
C-Span - LBJ White House tapes
C-Span - Nixon WHite House Tapes
LBJ Tapes on Gulf of Tonkin Incident - also has links to all the most recently declassified materials on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. A one-stop research site for all the primary sources you need to write a great paper or organize a great learning unit!
Highlights of LBJ Telephone Conversations from the LBJ Library
Link for searching the LBJ tapes at the LBJ Library
PORTAL WEBSITES AND COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
The Vietnam Project at Texas Tech A multimedia site organized by Vietnam Vets containing hundreds of oral histories, documents pertaining to the war and much else
Vietnam yesterday and Today: History of the War Websites An excellent portal site, probably the best place to look for online resources on the Vietnam war by subject. In here also is a great series of links on Teaching about the Vietnam War with many ideas for lesson plans, etc.
The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975: This site, developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College, offers students an opportunity to examine some of those sources, including numerous official documents. Brigham was the first American scholar given access to the Vietnamese archives on the war in Hanoi. Included here are his translations of some of the Hanoi documents, offered for examination and study.
Documents related to U.S. policy towards Vietnam: A huge collection of online documents from Mount Holyoke College.
Sixties Political Films: An Annotated Filmography
The American Experience: Vietnam Introduction Vietnam Online was developed to accompany Vietnam: A Television History, the award-winning television series produced by WGBH Boston.
Recent Resources for those studying antiwar movements
Charles Chatfield's "At the Hands of Historians: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era," in Peace and Change, Vol. 29 (July 2004)
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