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EN020 Writing and History : Vietnam

Courses here at MMC are offered in a selection of flavors with the basics of writing taught using information and literature organized around a topic or issue. This is one of a set of useful web links related to the general theme of this section of the course.

Gateways to Information

General War History

Veterans Organizations

Museums and Memorials

Special Collections

The 1960's

Selected Authors

Robert Olen Butler -- winner of 1993 National Book Award.  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Ron Kovic -- author of Born on the Fourth of July . CNN.com: Ron Kovic Interview (January 2003)

Bobbie Ann Mason -- author of In Country . Bobbie Ann Mason : Operation Homecoming: Writing About the Wartime Experience

Tim O'Brien -- author of The Things They Carried.  Tim O'Brien Homepage

Robert Stone -- author of Dog Soldiers. The Salon Interview: Robert Stone. and Robert Stone: Resources on the Web

Television and Film

Travel

Selected films in Busse Library

  • Vietnam : a television history. c1987. Video DS 558 .V5 1987
  • Not on the frontline. 1991. Video DS 559.8 .W6 N6
  • The Other angels a film. c1995. Video DS 559.44 .O84
  • Maya Lin a strong clear vision. 1995.Video NA 737 .L48 M39
  • Two days in October. c2005. DVD DS 558 .T8
  • Change, change. c1983. Video HN 65 .C5x
  • Dear America : letters home from Vietnam. 1987. Video DS 559.5 .D43 1988
  • Vietnam : chronicle of a war. 1981. Video DS 558.2 V5x
  • Nixon : Checkers to Watergate. Video E 856 .N474
  • Vietnam : the war at home. 1986. Video DS 559.6 .V5
  • P.O.W.-- Americans in enemy hands. c1987. Video D 805 .A2 P24
  • Where historians disagree "facts" vs. interpretations. 1983. Video E 175 .W53
  • An American journey : the Great Society to the Reagan. c1998. Video E 743 .A437
  • Post traumatic stress disorder the woman's perspective. 1997.Video RC 552 .P67 P66
  • Apocalypse now. 1999. DVD PN 1997 .A64

Selected books in Busse Library

  • McDonald, Ben. The Vietnam book list. c1991. DS 557.4 .M3x 1991
  • Kutler, Stanley I. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. 1996. DS 557.7 .E53 1996 Ref.
  • Lawrence, Mark Atwood. The Vietnam War.  2001. DS557.4 .V57 2001 Ref.
  • Olson, James Stuart. Dictionary of the Vietnam War. 1988. DS557.7 .D53 1988 Ref.
  • Peake, Louis A. The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975. 1986. DS558 .P4x Ref.
  • Taylor, Mark. The Vietnam War in history, literature, and film. 2003. DS558 .T27 2003
  • Olson, James Stuart. The Vietnam War : handbook of the literature and research. 1993. DS558 .V58 1993
  • Kurian, George Thomas. Encyclopedia of the Third World. c1992.HC59.7 .K87 1992 Ref.
  • Europa Publications Limited. The Europa world year book. JN1 .E85
  • Herzog, Tobey C. Vietnam war stories : innocence lost. 1992. PS228.V5 H4 1992
  • Schroeder, Eric James. Vietnam, we've all been there. 1992. PS228.V5 V47 1992
  • Myers, Thomas. Walking point : American narratives of Vietnam. 1988. PS366.V53 M94 1988
  • Franklin, H. Bruce. The Vietnam War in American stories, songs, and poems. c1996. PS509.V53 V55 1996

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