Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Viet Cong Program, 1962
This site from Fordham University's Modern History Sourcebook provides the Viet Cong Party Program from 1962. Includes a list of ten goals that are to be accomplished by the people's revolutionary party of Vietnam.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: William Calley
A partial biography of Calley that gives sketches of what people thought about him. The verdict and sentence he received is also covered.
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Notes on Paris Peace Accords, 27 January 1973
Lecture notes for a university-level course on Vietnam summarize the provisions of the peace agreement that ended the war in Vietnam.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Joseph Heller
An extensive exploration into the world of Joseph Heller. Provides a biographical sketch and details of his career. Offers commentary and literary criticism concerning several of his works.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Tim O'brien Lesson Plans
For teaching the work of Tim O'Brien, this site features lesson plans, overviews, notes, and other resources to help students reading The Things They Carried, Ambush, Going After Cacciato, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and so on.
CNN
Cnn: All Politics: Brief History of Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention
This site focuses mainly on facts and is a little less biased than other reports on the 1968 Democratic Convention and riots in Chicago. Discusses some of the causes and the aftermath of the event.
Digital History
Digital History: 'Sink or Swim, With Ngo Dinh Diem' [Pdf]
After the French left Vietnam, there was a void that was filled by anti-Communist Ngo Dinh Diem. Read about the excesses his government carried out against suspected communists, and the excesses carried out by North Vietnamese leader, Ho...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Richard M. Nixon: Cambodian Incursion Address
This is the text, audio. and video [21:54] of President Nixon's speech explaining the conditions in Vietnam and the need to remove the enemy sanctuaries along the border of Vietnam and Cambodia. It was delivered on April 30, 1970, from...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: French Colonial Empire
A history of the French colonial empire from their efforts in Africa to those in southeast Asia. The article discusses the First French Empire in the New World, and the attempts to establish colonies during the Imperialism period of the...
University of Virginia
Viet Nam Generation Journal and Newsletter: Poetry by Leroy Quintana
Three poems inspired by the war experiences of poet Leroy Quintana
Other
Ed Web: From Side Show to Genocide, Khmer Rouge Years
Discussion of the events in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975. Go to "The Faces of Angka" to find names of the people behind the genocide.
Kent State University
Kent State University: Kent State Shootings: May 4 Collection
A digital collection of newspaper articles, photographs, and videos about the May 4th shooting on Kent State campus.
Other
Kent May 4 Center
Information about the shooting of four Kent State students on May 4, 1970, including chronology, quotations, and descriptions of the students who were killed and wounded.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Cambodian Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Cambodian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
University of Washington
University of Washington: May 1970 Student Antiwar Strikes
Overview of the May 1970 antiwar strikes on college campuses involving over a million students including a map and list of 883 campuses where protest activities were reported.
University of Virginia
Psychedelic 60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change
This exhibition is an attempt to revisit, share, and interpret the 60s.
Curated OER
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Aboard the Hms Apollo, French Coast, June 7, 1944
Read the latest of Walter Cronkite's oral essays for NPR, in which he comments on events in recent history such as the Vietnam War, the U-2 crisis, and so on.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Domino Theory
Many of the Cold War presidents used the Domino Theory as the main justification for their involvement and intervention in the affairs of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, China, Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam as it related to the spread of...
Curated OER
The Scramble to Escape at the Us Embassy
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
Curated OER
The Last Evacuation of Us Troops
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
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Nva Tanks Smash Through the Palace Gates
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
Curated OER
Triumphant Soldiers Raise the Flag
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
Curated OER
South Vietnamese Uniforms Lie Discarded in the Street
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
Curated OER
Time: The Time 100: Leaders and Revolutionaries: Ho Chi Minh
Extensive biographical entry about Ho Chi Minh from the TIME 100 series on influential history makers.