PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of the u.s. Becoming Free Webisode 16
A brief look at contemporary American history from the administration of Richard Nixon to Sept. 11, 2001.
Other
The University of Southern Mississippi: Aaec Editorial Cartoons Digital Collect
The Editorial Cartoon Digital Collection contains examples of the work of member artists of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). Created primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, the cartoons reflect changes in American...
Curated OER
The Vietnam War: Seeds of the Conflict, 1945 1960
This detailed chronology of the Vietnam War is part of a four-segment timeline on the conflict published by the History Place, a privately operated online publication. The site focuses on the events and decisions that eventually led to...
Other
Texas Tech University: Vietnam Center and Archive
The mission of the Vietnam Project is to support and encourage research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience. This research site now features an online archive, oral histories, teacher resources, and more.
Digital History
Digital History: John Kennedy and Vietnam
Site covers the policy that Kennedy had toward Vietnam and his actions that involved the United States in the war.
PBS
Pbs: Battlefield Vietnam: Guerilla Tactics: An Overview
This site from PBS describes guerrilla tactics used by the Viet Cong with a close up of Cu Chi, a tunnel system near Saigon.
Digital History
Digital History: Vietnam Historical Overview
This resource presents a concise history of US involvement in Vietnam. It provides detailed information about the controversial military action. The article examines early US involvement, escalation, and withdrawal.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Manifesto of the Laodong Party
Ho Chi Minh wrote this manifesto in Februay 1951 to broaden his support among the working classes of Vietnam.
US Department of State
Dien Bien Phu and the Fall of French Indochina, 1954
Historical account of U.S. involvement and rise of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam after the fall of French Indochina in 1954. Site contains photgraphs and topic related links.
Marxists Internet Archive
The Founding of Indochinese Communist Party
A speech given by Ho Chi Minh on the founding of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930.
Other
Ed Web: Work Camps Life and Death in the Farming Co Ops
Describes life on the farms and in the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge.
Other
The Progressive Magazine
Homepage of the national magazine for peace and social justice, THE PROGRESSIVE. Read recent news regarding social justice here.
Brown University
Writing Vietnam Tim O'brien Lecture
Tim O'Brien's complete lecture is presented. It is very revealing about why he writes, the purpose of the writer, his books, and our culture.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: 1968: A Time of Change
Explore how the events and cultural and political changes that occurred in 1968 came to represent the upheaval and dramatic changes in American life during the 1960s. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Inside Out & Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
In this novel based on her life, Ha and her family are living in Saigon when the Vietnam war forces her family to flee to Alabama. Selected (6) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "Inside Out & Back Again" by Thanhha Lai....
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin: Chapter 20, Global Policy
This brief article overviews how American foreign policy perspectives have changed over time. Learn how the media has provoked some of the changes, how media coverage during the Vietnam War, for example, influenced society's perspectives...
Read Works
Read Works: Eyewitness to History: Grandma Was a Protester
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares information about a young girl's grandmother who protested the Vietnam War. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
Digital History
Digital History: How My Lai Was Pacified [Pdf]
Find out about the tragic events that occurred in My Lai during the Vietnam War on March 16, 1968. Read about the court martial of Lt. William Calley, who was held accountable for the massacre of innocent women, children, and old men....
New York Times
New York Times: h.r. Haldeman's Notes From October 22, 1968
[Free Registration/Login Required] Did Nixon knowingly thwart attempts to end the Vietnam War to help him win the 1968 Presidential Election? Nixon has firmly denied this allegation. Form your own opinion based on the notes written by...
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Plausibility of Denial: Tim O'brien, My Lai, and America
The Progressive magazine article is reprinted here. It is an excellent examination of the Vietnam War in literature. (Published: December 1994)
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Richard Nixon as President
Learn about Nixon's presidency, including his strategy to get the United States out of the Vietnam War, his foreign policy maneuvers with China and the Soviet Union, and his fall from grace due to the Watergate scandal.
Smithsonian Institution
Tet: Who Won?
A 2004 essay from Smithsonian Magazine on the debate over the surprise attacks of the Tet Offensive. The author, who was a reporter during the Vietnam War, explores the topic by asking who utlimately won?
PBS
Pbs: Battlefield Vietnam: Air War
This PBS Battlefield Vietnam site describes the airplanes used by the U.S. to carry out the air war in Vietnam.
Vassar College
Vassar.edu: Mc George Bundy's Memo to President Johnson
Excerpts from Bundy's memo to Johnson, advocating "sustained reprisal against North Vietnam" in response to the NLF attack on two U.S. army installations.