Resources

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A wide variety of resources are available dealing with the Vietnam era. The resources on this site are only a very small sampling of what is available.

Contacts

Personal contacts with various local and national organizations can be extremely useful in developing your curriculum and in locating veterans to serve as links for your students.

North Carolina Vietnam Veterans, Inc. (NCVVI)
PO Box 10333
Raleigh NC 27605

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
1023 15th Street, NW
Second Floor
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 393-0090

The Vietnam Center - Texas Tech University
Box 41045
Lubbock, Texas 79409-1045

Veterans Education Project
P.O. Box 416
Amherst, MA. 01004
(413)253-4947

PBR Forces Veterans Association, Inc.
1600 Township Road 395
Jeromesville, OH 44840-9712

American Veterans Traveling Tribute
19450 SE 52nd Place
Morriston, Fla. 32668

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
406 West 34th St
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 756-3390

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
1515 Cherry St
Philadelphia PA 19102
(215) 563-8787

 

Print Resources

Anderson, Terry H. The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee (1995).

Bigler, Philip. Hostile Fire (1996).

Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War (rev. ed., 1996)

Franklin, H. Bruce, ed. The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems (1996).

Grant, Zalin. Survivors: Vietnam P.O.W.s Tell Their Stories (rev. ed., 1994).

Hallin, Daniel C. The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam (1986).

Hayslip, Le Ly. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (1993)

Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (3rd ed., 1996).

Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest (1972).

Hunt, Michael. Lyndon Johnson's War (1996).

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History (rev. ed., 1991).

The Limits of Power: The United States in Vietnam. (4th ed.) - Published by Brown University as part of the Choices Education Project.

Moore, Lt. Gen. Harold G. and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once...and Young (1992)

Poling, Lindy G. "The Real World: Community Speakers in the Classroom." Middle Level Learning, a supplement to Social Education (May/June 2000).

Puller, Lewis B., Jr. Fortunate Son (1991)

Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988).

Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans (eleventh printing 1991)

Truong Nhu Tang with David Chanoff and Doan van Toai. A Viet Cong Memoir (1985)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Vietnam: Echoes From the Wall (1999).

Zumwalt, Elmo, Jr. and Elmo Zumwalt III. My Father, My Son (1986)

 

Web Sites

Agent Orange Debrief - Site that discusses the symptoms of Agent Orange exposure. Also includes assistance for getting help from the Veterans Administration.

How the Vietnam War Still Touches Us--A High School Field Trip to The Wall. The field trip experience is one of the most effective tools social studies teachers can use to make learning meaningful. What better way to help students comprehend the true costs of war than expose them to the 58,220 names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

Best Practices in a Community-in-the-Classroom Social Studies Program - Site by Lindy Poling discussing the benefits of bringing "living history" into the classroom.

The History Place: Vietnam War - Analysis of the involvement of the United States in Vietnam from 1945 to 1975.

The Moving Wall - Web site about the traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial exhibit.

Teach Vietnam: Echoes from the Wall - The VVMF's web site for educators.

Teaching About Vietnam and The Vietnam War - Includes excellent list of contacts and bibliography.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund - The official web site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

The Vietnam Center - The official web site of the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University.

Vietnam: The Women's Experience - Selected bibliography.

The Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project - Looks at the songs and stories of the Vietnam era.

Vietnamwar.net - Excellent source for further links.

Vietnam: Yesterday and Today - Excellent site including bibliography, chronology and extended web links.

The Virtual Wall - Interactive web site about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

 

Movies

Apocalypse Now (1979) - Remake of Conrad's Heart of Darkness set during the Vietnam War.

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Coming Home (1978) - Academy Award winner.

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, HBO (1988)

Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Set during the Tet Offensive.

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

The Hanoi Hilton (1987) - POWs in Hanoi's Hao Lo Prison.

Platoon (1988) - Academy Award winner.

To Heal a Nation (1992) - The effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

 

Questions and Comments

If you have questions or comments about this curriculum or the overall Community in the Classroom methodology, please contact Lindy Poling at lgpoling@juno.com.