Internet Sources
Art—National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum (NVVAM)
http://ww.nvvam.org. NVVAM’s site keeps the public informed about the museum’s exhibits and activities. Art work, inspired by combat and created by veterans to honor their service, can be viewed. Most of the artist’s work is accompanied with personal statements.
Australian Involvement in the Vietnam War
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~marshalle/. Ern Marshall has produced an impressive web site on Australian involvement in the Vietnam War. Marshall, who served in Vietnam between 1968 and 1969, has created an invaluable resource for any student who wants to study Australia's role in this conflict.
Bibliography—Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/index.htm. Written by Sandra Wittman, Professor Emeritus, Oakton Community College in Skokie, Illinois, this web site is primarily for students and teachers working to understand the Vietnamese conflict. Its goal is to suggest books, magazine articles, and other web sites that will be useful, to give suggestions for effective research, and to provide information about the war and the country of Vietnam.
History of the Vietnam War
www.vwam.com/vets/hisintro.html. Maintained by Vets with a Mission, this web site has extensive information on the ethnic peoples of Vietnam, its early history, the Tet offensive, Vietnam allies, and other research-oriented topics.
PBS—The American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/series/fd.html. In 1983, the unfolding of the Vietnam tragedy was the focus of an extraordinary documentary series broadcast on Public Television. When first aired, the series was recognized immediately as a landmark. It had taken six years to make. Researchers had combed film archives in 11 countries and the result was a stunning record of the conflict as it happened. The original 13-part program was later edited into 11 parts and rebroadcast in spring 1997. The Vietnam Online site provides a timeline, a section on “Who’s Who” in the war, primary sources, maps and a teacher guide. Check out other sources for the Vietnam War by using the “search” tool at the PBS site.
Photographs of Vietnam War
www.vietnampix.com. This site does not try to document the entire history of the Vietnam War but is intended as a picture essay, illustrating some of the incredible conditions under which soldiers from both sides lived, fought, played, and died. The legendary combat photographer, Tim Page, took almost all of the images shown.
http://pirate.shu.edu/~hoffmake/gallery/V_Portfolio/. This web site contains more than 80 photographs taken in Vietnam 1969-1970, while E. Kenneth Hoffman was stationed there as a military photographer. Visitors can contribute their own comments about the images or the war. Or, they can react to the comments left by others. More than 5,000 comments have been recorded since the site was created in April 1996.
The Sixties Project
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Sixties.html. The Sixties Project began as a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the Sixties. In 1993, the Sixties Project received a Networked Associate Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia at Charlottesville. A good jumping off site for a large number of topics associated with the 1960s and the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html. A British history web site that provides a detailed account of the Vietnam War. There is also an interview area where 12 Vietnam veterans are willing to answer questions from students on their experiences of the war. As well as 30 biographies of individuals who played an important role in the conflict there are entries for Buddhism, Cambodia and Laos, Chemical Warfare, Dien Bien Phu, Domino Theory, Eisenhower Doctrine, Guerrilla Warfare, Gulf of Tonkin, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Mass Media and the War, My Lai, National Liberation Front, Negotiated Peace, Operation Rolling Thunder, Strategic Hamlet Programme, Tet Offensive, Vietnam Protest Movement, Vietnam Revolutionary League and Vietnamization.
The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945-1976
http://vietnam.vassar.edu. This site, developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Vietnam War at Vassar College, offers students an opportunity to examine some of those sources, including numerous official documents. Brigham was the first American scholar given access to the Vietnamese archives on the war in Hanoi. Included here are his translations of some of the Hanoi documents, offered for examination and study. The site also has a special section on the Battles of the la Drang Valley.
Vietnam
http://www.geographia.com/vietnam/index.html. The Interknowledge Corporation web site contains a wide variety of information on Vietnam. This includes sections on: “The History of Vietnam,” “Location, Geography and Climate,” “Vietnamese Culture” and “Vietnamese People.”
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
http://www.vvaw.org/. Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is a national veterans' organization that was founded in New York City in 1967 after six Vietnam vets marched together in a peace demonstration. It was organized to voice the growing opposition among returning servicemen and women to the war, and grew rapidly to a membership of more than 30,000 throughout the United States as well as active duty GIs stationed in Vietnam. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War web site enables visitors to read articles from past editions of The Veteran newspaper. The site also includes an excellent History of the Vietnam War and a large collection of photographs.
Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall
www.thewall-usa.com.The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall USA web site is dedicated to honoring those who died in the Vietnam War. Information on causalities and names listed on the wall can be obtained through this site.
Women in Vietnam
www.illyria.com/vnwomen.html. This site has extensive background information, a variety of topics, and links to other web sites that relate to women’s service in Vietnam.