Vietnamese Conflict Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: Providing resources for one of America's most divisive wars.
Call number areas to browse: DS556 Vietnam (history and culture), DS557-DS560 Vietnamese Conflict, DS554 Cambodia (history and conflicts), DS550-DS553 Southeast Asia.
Keywords to search: Vietnam War, Vietnam Conflict, etc.
Subjects to search (Library of Congress): Vietnamese Conflict 1961-1975; place names (e.g. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc.); operations (My Lai Massacre Vietnam 1968, Dien Bien Phu, etc.); individuals (e.g. Westmoreland, William C; Nixon, Richard M; Ho Chi Minh; etc.). Also, other related events such as: Kent State University, Jackson State College, or Student Movements.

Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a Political, Social, and Military History (REF DS557.7 .E53 2000)
The Girl in the Picture: the Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
(DS559.8.C53 C48 2000)
Glory Denied: the Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-held Prisoner of War (DS559.4.T47 P47 2001)
In Love and War: the Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice during the Vietnam Years
(DS559.4 .S75 1984)
MIAs: a Reference Handbook (UB803 .L47 1998)
Our Vietnam: the War, 1954-1975 (DS558 .L36 2000)
The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest; including Special Reports: the Killings at Jackson State, the Kent State Tragedy (LA229 .A54 1970b)

Library Resources (r):

Humanities International Complete

Academic Search Complete

Military & Government Collection

America: History and Life Database of abstracts now offers links to many full-text articles through Project Muse. Tip: Add PROJECT MUSE to keyword, then type in a subject (e.g. VIETNAM, etc.) in the default subject box.

Also see our US Armed Forces guide.

Internet Resources:
Battlefield: Vietnam A brief history of the conflict with links to related PBS programs.

Kent State University: May 4 Collections Part of the University's Special Collections and Archives, documents and photos recounting the tragedy at Kent State.

POW/MIA Home Page Maintained by the Library of Congress, with more than 130,000 Vietnam era records.

Vietnam: Yesterday and Today Outstanding directory, designed for students and teachers, this site offers a look at the conflict and towards future and the hope for normalized relations.

The Vietnam Center Archival data, oral histories, and events maintained by Texas Tech University.

Vietnam Veterans of America The only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page Honoring the men and women who died. Also see the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Home Page maintained by the National Park Service.

Quotable: "Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat." -Konrad Adenauer