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SCOPE: The Vietnam War had a great impact on life in the United States. An estimated 27 million persons served in the war. 300,000 were wounded and 58,000 died. Thousands of draft age persons exiled themselves in Canada to avoid the draft. (Marty, Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990)

The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for the student in locating library resources on this topic. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available in the library.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with the Vietnam War are listed in the Baddour Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:

Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 Aerial operations, American
Draft resisters United States History 20th century
Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 United States

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF DS 557.7.E53 1998 Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War
REF D421.G647 2000 A History of the World in the Twentieth Century
REF E169.K985 2002 Daily Life in the United States 1960-1990 Decades of Discord

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

	Anderson, David L. The Human Tradition in the Vietnam Era. Wilimington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000. Buzzanco, Robert. Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life. Malden, A: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. Chinnery, Philip D. Vietnam: The Helicopter War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991.
	Hagan, John. Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Hunt, Andrew E. The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Kinney, Katherine. Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
	Kusch, Frank. All American Boys: Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War. Westport, Ct: Praeger, 2001. Langguth, A.J. Our Vietnam: The War, 1954-1975. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Nicosia, Gerald. Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement. New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.

PERSONAL NARRATIVES

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of the Vietnam War are:

Baker, Mark. Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There. New York: Morrow, 1981.

Howes, Craig. Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Jones, Bruce E. War Without Windows: A True Account of a Young Army Officer Trapped in an Intelligence Cover-Up in Vietnam. New York: Berkeley Books, 1990.

Taylor, Sandra C. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

American Prospect

Magazine of History

National Interest

VIDEOS

E17 .B56 2000 A Biography of America (Pt. 24)
DS558 .V473 1996 Vietnam: A Television History
DS 558.8 .V54 1989 Vietnam: Phantoms of the Sky
DVD #6; Video #544 Apocalypse Now
79 Apocalypse Now Redux
69 Full Metal Jacket
59 Platoon
80 We Were Soldiers

WEB SITES

The Vietnam Project

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu

Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/protestsweb/index.html
An online archive from the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection. The collection is divided into categories such as racism, gay rights, religion, and socialism.

The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/
Primary source documents included. This site has pertinent information on Vietnamese history, geography, and culture as well as bibliographies of fictional and non-fictional writings.

Updated 02/21/2008