Vietnam -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Edmund H. Gleason collection
Collection
Identifier: 00204
Scope and Contents
This collection contains flyers, posters, scrapbooks, photographs, slides and film related to the naval career of Commander Edmund Gleason. Of particular note are the materials related to the U.S. Navy Passage to Freedom Operation in 1954. The Passage to Freedom material includes a photograph scrapbook of refugee camps, transport ships, and other related activities; 2 reels of film documenting the operation; Vietnamese political flyers and posters; newspaper clippings about the...
Dates:
1950 - 1986
Harry H. Kimber papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.27
Scope and Contents
The Harry Kimber records consist of committee material relating to Michigan State University including the Military Affairs committee, University Publications committee, All College Educational Research Committee, Committee on American Studies Curriculum, Communications Center of Communications and Government Curriculum, Committee on International programs, committees relating to the Basic College, Improvement of Teaching Committee, and teacher education and certification committees. Other...
Dates:
1939 - 1966
Major Allison K. Thomas collection
Collection
Identifier: 00222
Scope and Contents
The Allison K. Thomas collection contains photographs, correspondence, books, magazines, and articles. Thomas served in Vietnam with Ho Chi Minh and helped the fight against the Japanese. The materials include correspondence from Giap, articles about Thomas, Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh, photographs of Thomas in Vietnam, excerpts from Thomas, diaries, copy of Thomas' report on Deer Mission, and photographs of Thomas' return to Vietnam in the 1990s.
Dates:
1945-1997, 2001-2011, undated
Victor Strecher papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.313
Scope and Content
The Victor Strecher papers include a map of the city of Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City from 1959. The map includes streets as well as outlines of where buildings stand. The map is in Vietnamese.
The electronic resources include reminiscences written by Victor Strecher about his time at MSU as a student and patrolman, his time in Vietnam, and his experience in creating the State Planning Agency for Michigan law enforcement. There are also two digital images of Strecher's young sons in 1960 with...
Dates:
1959, 1960, circa 2012
Vietnam Project records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.9.5.5
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Michigan State University Vietnam Project comprise a voluminous record. They cover a seven-year period and comprise thousands of individual documents contained in 71 boxes and approximately 4,000 folders. The papers are arranged according to the three major areas into which the project was divided: Michigan State University Administration of the Project, Public Administration, and Police Administration. Though the division of the project's papers was suggested by the...
Dates:
1954 - 1961