Davidson College Library   Research Guide for History 349

The Vietnam Experience Professor Levering Reference Works Primary Sources General Search Tools Government Documents Periodicals Other Examples Secondary Sources Finding Books Finding Articles Electronic Journal Collections Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Biographical Works | General Works on U.S. History & Foreign Relations Vietnam & the Vietnam War Biographical Works American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002. Reference R 920.073 A512 American Writers of the Vietnam War. W.D. Ehrhart et al. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1991. [Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series vol. 9] Reference R 928.1 D554d v.9 Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. Ed. David DeLeon. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. Reference R 923.2 L434 The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 1960s. Ed. William L. O'Neill. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003. Reference R 920.073 S434 General Works on U.S. History & Foreign Relations The 1960s: An Annotated Bibliography of Social and Political Movements in the United States. Rebecca Jackson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. Reference R 016.3 J13n The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997. Reference R 973.923 H219a American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature. Ed. Robert L. Beisner. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003. Reference R 016.327 A512 Atlas of American Military History. Ed. James C. Bradford. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003. Reference R 355.009 A881 Chronological History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Lester H. Brune. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2003. Reference R 327.73 B894c 2003 The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s. David Farber and Beth Bailey. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2001. Reference R 973.923 C726 Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003. Reference R 973 D554 2003 Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. Ed. Alexander DeConde et al. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 2002. Reference R 327.73 E56 2002 Encyclopedia of American Social History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton et al. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1993. Reference R 301.097 E56 Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. Ed. Immanuel Ness. 3 vols. New York: Sharpe Reference, 2004. Reference R 303.484 E56 Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. Ed. Bruce W. Jentleson and Thomas G. Paterson. 4 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. Reference R 327.73 E561 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996. Reference R 973.03 E562 Historical Dictionary of the 1950s. Ed. James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. Reference R 973.92 O52h Historical Dictionary of the 1960s. Ed. James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Reference R 973.923 H673 Historical Dictionary of the 1970s. Ed. James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Reference R 973.923 H6731 John F. Kennedy: A Bibliography. Comp. James N. Giglio. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. Reference R 016.973 K35g The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Ed. John Whiteclay Chambers. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. Reference R 355.009 O981 The Sixties in America. Ed. Carl Singleton. 3 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999. Reference R 973.92 S6252 Vietnam & the Vietnam War America and the Indochina Wars, 1945-1990: A Bibliographical Guide. Lester H. Brune and Richard Dean Burns. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 1992. Reference R 016.959 B967a American Writers of the Vietnam War. Ed. Ronald Baughman. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1991. [vol. 9 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series] Reference R 928.1 D554d v.9 The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War. David L. Anderson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2002. Reference R 959.704 A546c Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1988. Reference R 959.7 D554 Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. New York: Scribner's, 1996. Reference R 959.704 E56 Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Ed. Spencer C. Tucker. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: 1998. Reference R 959.704 E561 Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War. Harry G. Summers, Jr. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Reference R 959.704 S955h Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. Bruce Lockhart and William Duiker. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006. Reference R 959.7 L816h Quotations on the Vietnam War. Ed. Gregroy R. Clark. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001. Reference R 959.704 Q9 Vietnam. Comp. David G. Marr. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1992. Reference R 016.9597 M358v Vietnam: A Comprehensive Bibliography. John H.M. Chen. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1973. Reference R 016.9597 C518v The Vietnam Conflict: Its Geographical Dimensions, Political Traumas, & Military Developments. Comp. Milton Leitenberg and Richard Dean Burns. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, [1973]. Reference R 016.9597 L553v The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films. Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. Reference R 959.704 H655v Vietnam Studies: An Annotated Bibliography. Carl Singleton. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997. Reference R 016.9597 S617v The Vietnam War, an Almanac. Ed. John S. Bowman. New York: World Almanac, 1985. Reference R 959.7 V666 Vietnam War Bibliography: Selected from Cornell University's Echols Collection. Christopher L. Sugnet and John T. Hickey. Lexington, MA: LexingtonBooks, 1983. Reference R 016.9597 S947v Vietnam War Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Imaginative Works about Americans Fighting in Vietnam. John Newman. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1982. Reference R 016.81 N553v War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Reference R 973 W253 Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures, 1500-2000. Micheal Clodfelter. 2nd ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002. Reference R 355.009 C643w The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide. Richard Dean Burns and Milton Leitenberg. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1984. Reference R 016.959 B967w Words of the Vietnam War. Gregory R. Clark. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990. Reference R 427 C593w Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature on the Vietnam Conflict. Sandra M. Wittman. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1989. Reference R 016.959 W832w Locating Primary Sources General Search Tools | Government Documents | Periodicals | Other Examples General Search Tools Library Catalogue To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:    sources    correspondence    diaries    personal narratives. For more details, see below. WorldCat To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:    sources    correspondence    diaries    personal narratives. Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format. For more details, see below. Government Documents To search for government documents at Davidson, go into the Library Catalogue, limit your search to "Little Government Information" (first drop-down menu), and enter relevant search terms. Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1861- . Government Information Stacks S1.1 (Some volumes are online) LexisNexis Congressional Choose the "Historical Indexes" option to search Congressional Indexes (1789-1980) and Indexes to Unpublished Hearings Through 1980. Note: The Davidson College Library has the Serial Set from the 86th Congress (1958-59) through the 91st Congress (1969-71) on microfiche, shelved at the end of the Government Information microfiche sequence. The Serial Set includes House and Senate Documents and Reports as well as statistical publications from Federal agencies, journals of the House of Representatives and Senate, and administrative reports of both chambers of Congress.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an exclamation point.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use an asterisk *. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Harry S. Truman Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1945 through GS 4.113: 1952-53 Dwight D. Eisenhower Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1953 through GS 4.113: 1960-61 John F. Kennedy Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1961 through GS 4.113: 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1963-64 through GS 4.113: 1968-69 Richard M. Nixon Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1969 through GS 4.113: 1974 Gerald R. Ford Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1974 through GS 4.113: 1976-77 United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967 [Pentagon Papers]. U.S. Department of Defense. 12 vols. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1971. Government Information Stacks Y4.Ar5/2:V67/3/945-75 Periodicals The Library has many periodicals from this time period, including: Dissent Ebony Life The Nation National Review The New Republic The New Yorker Newsweek Time U.S. News & World Report ...and many others Index to Black Periodicals (1950 to present) Reference Index Area R 050 I383 Previous titles of this index include Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks, Index to Periodical Articles by and about Negroes, and Index to Selected Periodicals Received in the Hallie Q. Brown Library. The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986. 5 vols. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1992. Reference R 016.973 K13 PAIS International (1937 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics. To locate articles from previous years, consult Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, 1915-1972, shelved in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P976.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. PCI: Periodical Contents Index (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic. Readers' Guide Abstracts (1890 to present) Indexes articles in popular periodicals; also includes citations to book and film reviews.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Newspapers To locate newspapers on microfilm in the E.H. Little Library, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue for the word "newspapers" and then limit by date and by material type "newspapers." The Christian Science Monitor (1954 to present) [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet C-11 Index (1954-1992): Reference Index Area R 070 C555 New York Times Available online (1851-2001): Historical Newspapers: The New York Times Available on microfilm (1851 to present) Index (1851 to present): Reference Index Area R 071 N53 Personal Name Index: Reference Index Area 071 N53p The [London] Times (1785 to present) [microfilm] Index: Reference Index Area R 070 T58 The Wall St. Journal (1961 to present) [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet C-42 Index (1961-2003): Reference Index Area R 071 W187 The Washington Post (1877 to present) [microfilm] Microfilm cabinets C-43 through C-47 Other Examples American Memory, from the Library of Congress The American Radicalism Collection [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet D-51 Contains reproductions of pamphlets, broadsides, newsletters, program notices, clippings, and unpublished writings from the American Radicalism Collection in the Michigan State University Library's Special Collections Division. The microfilm collection is in four parts:    Part 1: Leftist Politics and Anti-War Movements    Part 2: The Religious and Radical Right    Part 3: Race, Gender, and the Struggle for Justice and Equal Rights    Part 4: Twentieth-Century Social, Economic, and Environmental Movements Guides: Reference R 322.4 A512 The Gallup Brain 1935 to present) Contains the Gallup Poll Public Opinion surveys, including more than 125,000 questions and responses from over 3.5 million people. Gerald R. Ford Library & Museum Includes links to a number of online resources, including Vietnam War Documents and Photographs. John F. Kennedy Library & Museum Includes links to a number of online sources, including National Security Action Memoranda. The John F. Kennedy National Security Files, Vietnam, 1961-1963 [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet C-17 Guide: Reference R 016.9597 G946 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum Includes links to a number of online resources, including audio clips, oral histories, photographs, speeches, and National Security Action Memoranda Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection. Ed. David M. Barrett. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1997. Little Library Stacks 959.704 J67L Online Bookshelves: The Vietnam War, from the U.S. Army Center of Military History Contains the full text of a number of pamphlets and government publications from the time period. The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Viet-Nam Crisis: A Documentary History. Ed. Allan W. Cameron. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1971- . Little Library Stacks 959.7 C182v Vietnam Era Ephemera Collection, from the University of Washington Libraries The Vietnam Project, from Texas Tech University Includes oral histories, images, and reference databases. Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to their Fight. Craig Howes. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993. Little Library Stacks 959.7 H859v Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Sandra M. Wittman. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1989. Reference R 016.959 W832w Indexes to Secondary Sources Finding Books | Finding Articles | Electronic Journal Collections Finding Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. Example: Vietnamese conflict 1961-1975 To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a dollar sign $.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war").     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Finding Articles America: History and Life (Prehistory to present [historical time period covered]; 1964 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?.     Time period searches: search by decade or century only.         To search for a decade, use the format xxxxD (example: 1940D).         To search for a range of decades, use the format xxxxD xxxxD or the format xxxxD OR xxxxD.         Note: For more than five decades, search by century (see below).         To search for a century, use the format xxxxH (example: 1900H).         To search for a range of centuries, use the format xxxxH xxxxH. Essay & General Literature Index (1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all humanities subjects, including history, classics, art, archeology, literature, philosophy, and religion.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. PAIS International (1937 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics. To locate articles from previous years, consult Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, 1915-1972, shelved in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P976.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Social Sciences Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Sociological Abstracts (1963 to present) Indexes journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975 to present) Indexes articles on a broad array of political science and international relations topics; international in scope.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Electronic Journal Collections JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a plus sign +.     Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Tips & Further Help How to Find Book Reviews How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources Research Planner (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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