Bibliography for Teachers
Published Works
Arnold, James R.
The First Domino
. New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1991.
Fall, Bernard B.
Street Without Joy
. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1964.
Hamilton-Merritt, Jane.
Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans and the Secret Wars
for Laos, 1942-1992.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Karnow, Stanley.
Vietnam: A History
. New York: Penguin Books, 1983; revised 1997.
Lancaster, Donald.
The Emancipation of French Indochina
. New York: Octagon Books, 1974.
Scholl-Latour, Peter
. Death in the Ricefields: An Eyewitness Account of Vietnam’s Three Wars, 1945-1979.
Trans. Faye Carney. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979.
Sullivan, Marianna P
. France’s Vietnam Policy: A Study in French-American Relations.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Internet Resources
Vietnam War Internet Project:
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http://www.vwip.org/vwiphome.html
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The American Experience: Vietnam Online, an internet companion to the PBS/WGBH series
Vietnam: A Television History
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam
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Reading List for Students
The first chapter of the Arnold book, above, is very accessible for high school students; aside from that, this unit is meant to stand alone and is not dependent on student reading materials.
Materials for Classroom Use
Vietnam: A Television History
, Episode: “Roots of War,” a PBS/WGBH documentary in the American Experience series. Originally broadcast on PBS on October 4, 1983.