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Vietnam War Websites

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Vietnam Center
http://www.ttu.edu/~vietnam

Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University.
The site offers full transcriptions of 11 oral histories of U.S. servicemen who served in Vietnam.

Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/

Sandra M. Wittman, Library Services Professor, Oakton Community College (IL).
This well-designed, user-friendly site “provides resources for understanding Vietnam — as it was then, and as it is now.”

The Vietnam War Declassification Project
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/vietnam/vietnam.htm

Gerald R. Ford Library.
In April 2000, the Gerald R. Ford Library released approximately 30,000 pages of classified documents concerning the Vietnam War. Many are from National Security Advisors Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft and their staffs and deal with the decision to evacuate U.S. forces from Vietnam in April 1975.

The American Experience: Vietnam Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/vietnam/index.html

PBS and WGBH.
This is the companion to the PBS series, Vietnam: A Television History. David McCullough introduces the site with a 600-word essay on the war and 30-word program notes for each of the 11 episodes.

Investigating the Vietnam War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html

Spartacus Educational.
This site was designed to help students research projects about the Vietnam War. It is one of the 20 sections on Spartacus Educational, an encyclopedia of English and U.S. History created by John Simkin, a history teacher.

National Security Archive: The Pentagon Papers
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/

Thomas S. Blanton, Editor.
A collection of textual and audio documents concerning the 1971 decision to lift prior restraint orders instigated by the Nixon Administration to prohibit publication of the government’s secret historical collection of documents labeled “United States-Vietnam Relations 1945–1967.”

The Wars for Vietnam: 1945–1975
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/index.html

Robert K. Brigham, Department of History, Vassar College.
An introduction to the history of the Vietnam War, this site was developed for a course taught by Robert Brigham, “the first American scholar given access to the Vietnamese archives on the war in Hanoi.”

Regarding Vietnam: Stories Since the War
http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/

P.O.V. Interactive with PBS Online, Marc N. Weiss, director.
Created in 1996 to facilitate a “dialogue across differences,” this site provided a space where stories, opinions, photographs, and memories pertaining to the Vietnam War era were collected, organized according to broad topics, and displayed.