History of a Conflict

Battlefield Vietnam
Learn more about the history of and politics behind the Vietnam War. Includes an interactive timeline and an overview of Vietcong guerrilla tactics.

Vietnam Online
In-depth coverage of the Vietnam War from its roots at the end of World War II to the surrender in Saigon. Vietnam Online is the companion Web site to Vietnam: A Television History, the award-winning television series produced by WGBH Boston.

Vietnam War Master Resource Guide
A comprehensive listing of various resources and documents related to the Vietnam War, its history and consequences.

Vietnam Remembered

Re: Vietnam Stories Since the War
Inspired by the P.O.V. documentary about Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, this Web site is a gathering place for personal stories and a forum for dialogues about Vietnam’s legacy.

Vietnam: Looking for Home, May 2003
More than 30 years ago, the war in Vietnam shattered Nguyen Qui Duc's childhood. He returned to his homeland for FRONTLINE/World, looking, he says, "for home, for a bit of myself, for a country that always exists in my memory."

Pete Peterson: Assignment Hanoi
Pete Peterson, a former P.O.W returns to Vietnam as U.S. Ambassador on a mission of reconciliation.

Remembering Vietnam
A collection of articles and essays by immigrants, historians, journalists and politicians reflecting on the Vietnam conflict. An Online News Hour with Jim Lehrer Special Report.

Vietnam Revisted
A photo essay by Duane Thoene about his time stationed in Vietnam, from 1969 to 1970.

Vietnam: Journeys of Body Mind and Spirit
This comprehensive exhibition on Vietnamese life presents Vietnamese culture in the early 21st century. Organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi.

Dear America: Letters From Vietnam, documentary, directed by Bill Couturié, 1987.
Dear America lesson plans to accompany the film from the American Museum of the Moving Image: intermediate | advanced

Books

Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War: With a Twentieth Anniversary Postscript by the Author. Reprint, N.p.: Owlet, 1996.

Edelman, Bernard, ed. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.

Galloway, Joseph L. and Moore, Harold G. Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam: We Were Soldiers Once...And Young. New York: Random House, 1992.

Herr, Michael. Dispatches. Reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

Mason, Bobby Ann. In Country. N.p.: John Curley & Associates, 1996.

Novak, Marian Faye. Lonely Girls with Burning Eyes. Reprint, New York: Little Brown & Company, 1991.

O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Reprint, New York: Broadway Books, 1999.

VanDevanter, Lynda; L. Van Devanti; C. Morgan. Home Before Morning. Repint, New York: Warner Books, 1991.

Poetry

Auden, W.H. “September 1, 1939.” From Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson. Reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

Auden, W.H. “Song IX,” from ‘Twelve Songs IX.’ From Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson. Reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1991

Auden, W.H. “The Unknown Citizen.” From Selected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson. London: Faber and Faber, 1979.

Donne, John. “Holy Sonnets, 10.” From John Donne, ed. John Carey, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

McCrae, John. “In Flanders Fields.” From In Flanders Fields and Other Poems. N.p: Indypublish.com, 2002.

MacLeish, Archibald. “The Young Dead Soldiers.” From Archibald MacLeish: The Human Season, selected poems 1926-1972. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972.

Moore, Marianne. “In Distrust of Merits.” From The Complete Poems. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

Patterson, Charles E. “The Petrified Heart.” From The Petrified Heart. Ohio: Signal Tree, 2002

Shapiro, Karl Jay. “Elegy for a Dead Soldier.” From New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred. “Crossing the Bar” From Tennyson: Selected Poems. N.p.: Gramercy Books, 1993.