Welcome to this research guide for The Vietnam War. In this guide, you'll find resources that will help with primary and secondary research about The Vietnam War. If you need any extra help or have a question about any of the resources on this guide, please feel free to contact me at taboucher@ua.edu.
HeinOnline Foreign Relations of the United States presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Browse by presidential administration (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, etc.) and then search within the Vietnam collections
This collection of primary resources documents the history, culture, and politics of the 1960s and early 1970's. Included are diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Especially good if you're working on domestic protest movements
History Vault is a collection of primary source material pertaining to the civil rights movement and to U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War era. This rich collection of federal records, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries is organized in five subject categories: 1) Black Freedom Struggle; 2) NAACP Papers; 3) Slavery and the Law; 4) Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantations Records; and 5) Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975.
Collections in this database include:
Black Freedom Struggle
NAACP Papers
Slavery and the Law
Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantations Records
Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975.