The Vietnam War: Primary Sources

Collected government documents from across executive branches forming the primary documentary record of U.S. foreign policy.

National Security Files, Documents of the National Security Council, CIA intelligence reports and related information.

Curated sets of declassified documents about specific topics. Includes collections about U.S. policy in Vietnam as well as collections related to the Cold War, Intelligence and other related topics.

Repository of documents declassified as part of the government's routine declassification process.

Classified State Department of Defense internal history of the Vietnam conflict that was leaked to the public.

1789 to present. The document section includes: Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Annual Messages to Congress on the State of the Union, Inaugural Addresses, News Conferences, Radio Addresses, News Conferences, Signing Statements, Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches, and more.

Especially important for FBI surveillance of antiwar groups and Executive Branch concerns about protests.

Extensive collections of underground student, feminist and GI newspapers.

The preeminent database of individual poll questions, covering almost half a million questions from reported survey results received at the Roper Center that have US national adult samples or samples of any subpopulation that constitutes a large segment of the national adult population. Includes Gallup poll reports. iPOLL permits reconstructing poll questionnaires. Many polls represented in iPOLL have microdata datasets available for download through the Roper Center catalog.

Features Berkeley's Social Protest Collection: Vietnam War; Wars, Peace, and Nuclear Issues 1949-1979, alternative magazines, and other sources.

Part 1 is particularly important for SCLC records; Part 2 is particularly important for SNCC and CORE records.

Streaming video from NBC extending back to 1968.

Full text backfiles of important national and regional newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, as well as African American Newspapers.

Additional newspapers not provided in Proquest Historical Newspapers, including small town and rural papers providing alternate perspectives.

Includes the archives of popular but targeted magazines such as Forbes, Fortunte, The Nation, The New Republic, The National Review, Ebony, etc.

The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence--broadcast and print news translated into English--consisting of Daily Reports published from September 4, 1941 through 1996. Includes news broadcasts from Hanoi in English translation.

Includes links to backfiles of Women's Magazines, Art Magazines, Entertainment Magazines and more.

Links to mainstream, ethnic and ideological newspapers.

Large collection of primary sources in various formats, including pictures of graffiti, oral histories, film footage, maps, newsletters, more. Use the Thesaurus to identify subject headings.