Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture. Editor, Bowman, John S. New York: Columbia University Press, c2000.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS33 .C63 2000

Encyclopedia of Asian history. Prepared under the auspices of the Asia Society ; Ainslie T. Embree, editor in chief. New York: Scribner; London: Collier Macmillan, c1988.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS31 .E53 1988 -- v 1-4

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Kutler, Stanley I., editor.New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS557.7 .E53 1996 

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history. Tucker, Spencer C., editor. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.

This set traces the history of Vietnam and details early American involvement and the antiwar movement, to put in historical context the full impact of the war. It also brings Vietnamese history up-to-date, with content on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1975 through 1997. Includes 900 entries, 150 illustrations, 22 maps, detailed order of battle, biographies of individuals, chronology, etc.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS557.7 .E53 1998  -- v 1-3 

"Vietnam." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2003.  Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
25 Jun, 2003  <href="http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=120925">

Available to members of the Union community via Britannica Online, this article contains a comprehensive overview of the country, including the people, social conditions, politics, and military history -  with links to American involvement in the war, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and more.

Vietnam, a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress ; edited by Ronald J. Cima.

The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Also available online with browse and search modes.

CALL NUMBER: DS556.3 .V54 1989 

Clark, Gregory R.
Words of the Vietnam War: the slang, jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, nomenclature, nicknames, pseudonyms, slogans, specs, euphemisms, double-talk, chants, and names and places of the era of United States involvement in Vietnam. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1990.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PE3727 .S7 C57 1990 

Atlases

Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War. Summers, Harry G., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS557.7 .S93 1995 

Bibliographies

Butler, Deborah A.
American women writers on Vietnam: unheard voices: a selected annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1990.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bib PS228 .V5 B88 1990  

Those who were there: eyewitness accounts of the war in Southeast Asia, 1956-1975 & aftermath: annotated bibliography of books, articles & topic-related magazines, covering writings both factual and imaginative. Coordinating editor, Merritt Clifton. Paradise, CA: Dustbooks, 1984.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bib Z3228 .V5 T46 1984  

Vietnam. David Marr, Compiler. Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1992

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bib DS556.3 .M39 1992   

The Vietnam conflict; its geographical dimensions, political traumas, & military developments. Milton Leitenberg & Richard Dean Burns, compilers. Santa Barbara, Calif.,: ABC-Clio, 1973.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bib DS557.7 .L44 

Newman, John.
Vietnam War literature : an annotated bibliography of imaginative works about Americans fighting in Vietnam. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1988.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bib Z1227 .N49 1988 

The wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982 : a bibliographic guide. Richard Dean Burns and Milton Leitenberg ; assisted by Mary Gormly Lillemor Lindh, and Frances R. Burns. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c1983.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bib Z3228.V5 B87 1983 

Whitman, Sandra.
Writing about Vietnam : a bibliography of the literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1989.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bib DS557.7 .W58 1989 

Subject Dictionaries

Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Olson, James, editor. New York: P. Bedrick Books, 1990.

"Designed to provide a ready-reference tool for students and scholars. Its major focus is the thirty years between 1945 and 1975, although critically important individuals and events from earlier years are discussed. Includes brief descriptive essays on people, legislation, military operations, and controversies important to American participation in the Vietnam War."

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS557.7 .D53 1990 

Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Moïse, Edwin E., Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2001.

For a comprehensive Vietnam War Bibliography visit the author's website, which includes primarily books organized by section. Dr Edwin Moïse is Professor of History at Clemson University.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS557.7 .M63 2001 

Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. Duiker, William J. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1989.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DS556.25 .D85 1989 

Series Preview of the PBS video Vietnam: A Television History from the Web site companion - select a format:

QuickTime (13.4 megs)
AVI (13.4 megs)  

Vietnam: a television history /  Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video, 1983. (Videorecording) DS557.7 .V550 1983  v.1-7 - At Circulation

Vietnam: 25 Years Later
http://www.salon.com/news/special/vietnam/index.html
A special report on the Salon.com web site with audio and video clips, articles and interviews. Includes Barbara Sonneborn's Vietnam documentary, Regret to Inform, winner of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, in full, and Senator John McCain's commentary on his last days in Vietnam.

A Conversation with Tim O'Brien from the Artful Dodge, an Ohio-based literary magazine.(The College of Wooster)

Lovett, Christopher C. A Walk in the Sun: Reflections on Teaching the Vietnam War. The History Teacher, Vol. 31, No. 1. (Nov., 1997), pp. 77-92.

Wesley, Marilyn. Truth and Fiction in Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried. College Literature, Spring 2002, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p1, 18p.

Books in Schaffer Library are arranged by Library of Congress Class number. Class numbers are searchable in the Web Catalog and browsable in the Stacks and Reference Collection.

Faculty using Blackboard are encouraged to incorporate links to Library resources—and specifically the Research by Subject pages and the appropriate course-related Research Guides—into the Blackboard course pages. Your Departmental Liaison or Bibliographic Instruction Contacts can assist you.

Scholarly periodical databases give a researcher access to articles on specific subjects that have appeared in variety of periodicals. Such databases may cover a broad area of study the way Humanities Index and Social Science Index do. Others, such as Historical Abstracts, and  Bibliography of Asian Studies focus more sharply. Searching a database will give the researcher the bibliographic citation needed to identify and locate a specific work on a topic: author, title of article, journal title, volume and issue number, date, and pages. 

These databases often offer full-text access to articles or library holdings information.  To check whether (and where) a title is to be found in the Library's collections, it is necessary to check both of the Periodical Titles lists on our Web Catalog page. Important: If you are searching from off-campus, see the Note on Off Campus Access about Virtual Private Network accounts

In addition to the links above to subject related databases that will lead to article citations and full-text article access, you can also browse the library's comprehensive listing of Electronic Journals and/or Periodical Titles available through Aggregated Databases. Both offer basic search options including and, or, not and Title begins with, Title contains, etc.   Ask at the Reference Desk for assistance with local holdings.

Two services included in the Databases & Indexes section, JSTOR and Project Muse, offer full-text access to journals by discipline. Users can search or browse by category/subject. JSTOR - Asian Studies, JSTOR - History, and JSTOR- Political Science. Project Muse includes American Studies, Asian Studies, History, and Politics and Policy Studies.

Relevant World-Wide Web Sites for Background Information on Tim O'Brien and his writing.

Battlefield Vietnam
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
Courtesy of PBS - Includes Brief History, Battlefield Timeline, Guerilla Tactics, Air War, The Siege of Khe Sanh, and Web Resources.

CIA World Factbook - Vietnam
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vm.html
Background information, Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military, and more.

CNN - In-depth Specials: Vietnam, Echoes of War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/vietnam/
Interviews, Documents, News Archives, Timelines, Maps, soldier's diaries, and more.

The History Place - Vietnam War
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/
Comprehensive timelines with quotes and analysis from The History Place's main exhibits.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
An excellent source of primary material on line. The library has embarked on a program of putting their vast oral history collection on line in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Also online are the National Security Action Memoranda from the Johnson administration and a number of images.

Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History - Vietnam
http://www.teacheroz.com/coldwar.htm
Links to a variety of primary source documents relating to the Vietnam Era. Also includes Cold War through the present "War on Terrorism."

The Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/
This site, developed around the course materials for a senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College, provides links to an overview, documents, and additional material.

The New York Times: College. [ Online ] The New York Times. Available: http://www.nytimes.com/college/index.html (Accessed 27 July 2003)
Provides full text access to articles relating to higher education from The New York Times.

The New York Times: College > Arts & Humanities > History > Vietnam. [ Online ] The New York Times. Available: http://college.nytimes.com/guests/directory/Arts_&_Humanities/History/Vietnam_War/ (Accessed 11 August 2003)
Provides full text access to recent New York Times articles of interest to students and teachers of the Vietnam War history.

The New York Times: College > Social Sciences > International Relations [Online] The New York Times. Available: http://college.nytimes.com/guests/directory/Social_Sciences/International_Relations/ (Accessed 11 August 2003)
Provides full text access to recent articles of interest to students and teachers of International relations from The New York Times. Sign up for email tracking.

The New York Times: College > Social Sciences > Political Science And Government [Online] The New York Times. Available: http://college.nytimes.com/guests/directory/Social_Sciences/Political_Science_and_Government/ (Accessed 11 August 2003)
Provides full text access to recent New York Times articles of interest to political science students and teachers. Sign up for email tracking.

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