Junior Vietnam War Research project

Your job is to do some heavy research - that means books , magazines and NO Wikipedia – on an aspect of the Vietnam War. If you would like to explore the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq instead, that is acceptable. No matter what area of research you investigate, however, you must eventually come up with a thesis that you will prove.

1. Start with the websites listed at the bottom of this post. You need to read not hit the print button. WRITE DOWN THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFO AS SOON AS YOU TOUCH OR YOUR EYES TOUCH THE INFORMATION. As you continue reading, you should start to find some topic (role of US women in war in Iraq, for example) that interests you. Your reading about Vietnam may spark your interest; it may lead you to the present conflicts.
2. By our third day in the library you need to have a research topic/area. If not, Ms. Kichler will assign you one. If you are absent, email me your choice by 2:15 to me at vkichler@yahoo.com. If you haven’t, I will assign you a topic/area.
3. A large portion of your job is to inundate yourself in material (not literally, of course). Sift through “the stuff” and don’t think that a handful of sources is adequate.
4. A minimum of 15 sources (that means books, speeches, magazines articles, pages of a website) is required for your working bibliography. Your final Works Cited will probably be shorter.
5. At the third day in the library I will inform you of the remaining schedule for the research.
6. You will be graded on amount AND quality of your research, your paper (a clear thesis with adequate proof) and your adherence to MLA style (I will go over this with you.)


A Country Study: Vietnam, from the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/vntoc.html

A Letter to My Wife
http://www.vietvet.org/SHletter.htm

American Experience: Daughter from Danang
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/honor/

American Experience: return with Honor
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/honor/

Battlefield: Vietnam
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/

Experiencing War: Stories from the Veteran History Project
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/stories/ex-war-home.html

Frontline World – Vietnam: Looking for Home
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/vietnam/

Interviews with people who were in Vietnam
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietinterview.htm

May 4 Collection, Kent State University
http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/

One Day in Vietnam
http://members.aol.com/jimm844224/catex01/polloc03.html

P.O.V. Stories Since the War
http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/

Personal Legacy: The Healing of a Nation
http://photo2.si.edu/legacy.html

Pete Peterson – Assignment Hanoi
http://www.pbs.org/hanoi/

Precious Cargo
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/preciouscargo/

Recalling the Vietnam War
http://globetrotter.berkely.edu/Pubed/research/vietnam.html

The American Experience: Vietnam Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

The Psychedelic 60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/index.html

The Vietnam Center – Internet Resources
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/teachers/internetresources.htm

The Vietnam War
http://www.vietnampix.com/index.html

The War in Vietnam – A Story in Photographs
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos/

The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/