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Online Resources

The Vietnam Center and Archive: Virtual Vietnam Archive

One of the greatest contributions to the study of war in Vietnam is Texas Tech University’s (TTU) development of The Vietnam Center and Archive (VNCA), its inclusion of The Virtual Vietnam Archive (VVA), and the Oral History Project (OHP). VNCA and VVA began after a meeting in 1989 to discuss the building of an archive and in 2000 the archive gained the support of the United State Congress. Over the past 25 years, the VNCA and VVA have opened their doors (physically and electronically) to aspects of the Vietnam War that have previously been closed.

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Video Resources

Trailer for the Last Days in Vietnam
Full movie of Last Days in Vietnam
Trailer for In Country 

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Trailer for Be Good, Smile Pretty

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Additional Reading

Alter, Nora M. Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. 

 

Barry, Kathleen. The Prostitution of Sexuality. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

 

Bates, Milton J. The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

 

Brewer, Susan A. Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda From the Philippines to Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

Dawson, Gary Fisher. Documentary Theatre in the United States: An Historical Survey and Analysis of Its Content, Form, and Stagecraft. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.

 

Duiker, William J. The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam. 2nd Ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

 

Engelhardt, Tom. End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.

 

Fenn, J.W. Levitating the Pentagon: Evolutions in the American Theatre of the Vietnam War Era. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992.

 

Gelb, Leslie H. and Richard K. Betts. The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1979.

 

Gilbert, Marc Jason. Ed. Why the North Won the Vietnam War. New York: Palsgrave, 2002.   

 

Hagopian, Patrick. The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.

 

Halberstam, David. The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era. Revised Edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.

 

Hixson, Walter L. Ed. The United States and the Vietnam War: Historical Memory and Representations of the Vietnam War. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000.

 

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.

 

Kissinger, Henry. Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

 

Lewis, Adrian R. The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom. 2nd Edition. New York:  Routledge, 2012.

 

Norton, Ray. 351 Days in Da Nang: Memories of a Navy Investigator. Self-Published. 2013.

 

Rowe, John Carlos and Rick Berg. Ed. The Vietnam War and American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

 

Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.

 

Schneider, Rebecca. Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment. New York: Routledge, 2011.

 

Taylor, Diana. The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

 

Tomlinson, John. Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction. New York: Continuum, 1991.

 

Willbanks, James H. Vietnam War Almanac. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009.

Kansas City Star Articles on Vietnamese Refugees

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