Resources
The student should consider the instructor to be a resource for this course, especially when encountering problems with the research project. Email is the preferred method of communication with the instructor; emails to deyman@skidmore.edu will be answered as quickly as possible. Click here to send the instructor email
Textbooks for the course:
Gabriel Kolko, Anatomy of a War, New York: The New Press: 1994.A. J. Langguth, Our Vietnam: The War, 1954-1975, Touchstone Books: 2002.
The Kolko text is a more left-leaning approach to the Vietnam War, without straying into a pro-North Vietnam stance. Langguth has provided a better examination of the U.S. government's role in the war. Taken together, these two books will provide the students with a good overview of the war.
Other useful, interesting sources:
Leo J. Daughtery & Gregory Louis Mattson, Nam; A Photographic History, New York: MetroBooks, 2001.
Stanley I. Kutler, ed., Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Edwin E. Moise, Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Harry G. Summers, Jr., Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Most of these sources are still in print, although some are fairly expensive; check area libraries for copies if you wish to examine any of them. All are highly recommended. The instructor has made extensive use of the Moise and Tucker books in preparing the various pages for this course and maps from the Summers atlas are in evidence throughout the pages on the war.
Internet Sites of possible interest:Two of these sites--the Moise and Jensen pages--are bibliographies, useful for locating sources for the research project. The others are overviews of the war or links to other useful sites. Students will note that individual topics throughout the course have additional internet sites listed, most of which are rather specific in nature. There are, of course, many more sites on Vietnam available on the internet. When accessing sites through a search engine such as Google, watch for any obvious bias; many who put up web sites have some agenda which may preclude a completely accurate approach.
