Internet Links
The following list is not exhaustive, but it will provide
a starting point for some of the more useful links for the
Vietnam era. Before you begin it is important that you read some
of the material on how to assess the quality of websites from the History
323 Research and Writing page. Simply because the material is
found on the internet does not make it useful or accurate, nor is
it necessarily primary material, which is to be the core of the research
paper. It is also imperative that you know how to use the internet
sources properly in both your references and your bibliography.
The
American Experience: Vietnam Online
An excellent site produced by PBS
Vietnam:
Historical Text Archive
A site maintained by Mississippi State with links to
a variety of Vietnam related sites.
Created and maintained by Texas Tech University, this is one of the largest collections of materials outside of the federal government.
The
Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975
A site located at Vassar College which provides a good
overview of the wars and an extensive document section online. Also
links to other sites.
Investigating
the Vietnam War
Another good starting point for links.
Famous
Trials
An excellent site which contains the transcripts, etc. of famous
trials. Relevant to this course would be the trials of the Rosenbergs, The
Chicago Seven, and the Mississippi Burning Trial.
An excellent collection of links to online sites, as well as an extensive bibliography of relevant print sources.
A wide ranging set of links to virtually anything connected to the war or the period, maintained by Wellesley College.
Part of the American Folklife Centre at the Library of Congress, the site includes documents, interviews, etc., from participants of American conflicts from WWI onwards.
The
Sixties Project
A rich and eclectic site devoted to all aspects of that
decade. The site includes online issues of the
Vietnam Generation Journal, a good primary documents
section, and links elsewhere.
Digger Archives
Text and archives of the Diggers of San Francisco, 1966
to 1968, an important facet of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s.
The site contains documents about the Diggers as well as links to other
sixties sites.
The Free Speech Movement
Archives
An excellent document collection for this very important
movement of the 1960s.
The Haight-Ashbury
Scene
A very interesting site devoted to the San Franciso scene
of the 1960s. There are some excellent photographs here to see what
it was like. Well worth a visit.
Country
Joe and the Fish Homepage
An important sixties band blending commercialism and
protest.
Hey, Hey...its one of the most successful commercial bands of the sixties.
Jethro
Tull Homepage
Just because they're really, really good.
Department
of National Defence: Vietnam Links
An extensive list of links on all aspects of the war.
Documents
from the Women's Liberation Movement
A very good site from Duke University
More nostalgic than analytic, but some interesting content (particularly material and social culture). Not necessarily great links, but where else can you link to the Lucy-Desi Museum or to The Rifleman homepage....
The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
A very extensive site with great primary documents online which is part of a course from the University of Pennsylvania.
An extensive links site created for an University of Maryland honours seminar. A good starting point on the decade.
The Cuban Missile Crisis and its Aftermath
A collection of 275(!) documents relating to the Crisis created as part of the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.
Documents Relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Another very extensive collection of primary documents.
Documents Relating to the Cold War
A very extensive set of links to primary documents from 1945 onwards.
An extensive and eclectic list of links on just about anything to do with the Cold War.
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: Vietnam
A very extensive list of links to sites and primary documents on American foreign policy as it related to Vietnam from 1941 onwards.
Documents on Foreign Policy, 1945 - 1968
The State Department website containing declassified State Department documents.
About
the War
An eclectic site maintained by the Vietnam Veterans of America. The links
are of mixed quality, but there are some excellent primary resources available
through this page.
The Trial of the Chicago Seven
A good site with trial transcripts and other links. A good insight into aspect of the sixties youth rebellion, counterculture, and politics.
The Mississippi Burning Trial (1967)
The trial in 1967 of the KKK members charged with the murder of the three civil rights workers in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in 1964. A very good site with trial transcripts, etc., which provide an excellent look at the south, the Klan, and the struggle for civil rights in the early 1960s.
1969 Woodstock Festival and Concert Homepage
Were you there? It seems as if everyone else was....Relive the sex and drugs and rock and roll. A mixed set of links on you know what.
Woodstock: The Musical Festival Homepage
Another "official" homepage. Some links on the festival and its place in the 1960s culture might be of interest.
Yet another Woodstock related site. It does though have an extensive set of sixties related links, albeit of varying content and quality. Use at your own risk.
A set of links by someone named, yes, Lorraine. Again a very extensive set of links to largely the culture of the sixties, and again the links vary in terms of content and quality.
Literary Kicks: The Beat Generation Homepage
Some good material on the leading individuals of the Beat Generation.
Retro: Super Cool Stuff from the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s
I didn't make up the title of this homepage. I does have links to a lot of the popular culture of the period, although the value of some of it is questionable. Good luck.
Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
Background information and contemporary photographs of America's most famous post-war suburb
United States Historical Census Browser
Allows you to search data from each decade census from 1790 onwards. This may be particularly useful in providing a statistical context for your research in the Vietnam era.
The Leave It To Beaver Website
Television was a very influential medium in the 1950s and shows such as LITB reinforced many of the dominant cultural messages of the period. For a solid scholarly analysis of the show, see the Masters thesis "Television as Popular Culture: An Attempt to Influence North American Society?" at this site.
The High Energy Weapons Archive
Another site which attempts to link together in one place any material concerned with nuclear weapons or testing.
Associated Colleges of the South Vietnam Webliography
An extensive and eclectic set of links connected to virtually any aspect of the Vietnam experience. A myriad of links....