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Primary Sources

Archival collections

US Documents

• Virtual Vietnam Archive
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: Vietnam
• The Pentagon Papers
• Digital National Security Archive (includes the following subcollections:)
  • U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I, 1954-1968
  • U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II, 1969-1975
  • Kissinger Transcripts
  • Kissinger Telephone Conversations
• Foreign Relations of the United States
  • 1945 onward
  • Pre-1945
• CIA FOIA Reading Room
• Presidential Recordings (Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon)
• U.S. Relations and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1944-1958
• Indochina, France, and the Viet Minh War, 1945-1954: records of the U.S. State Department. Part 1, 1945-1949.
• Intelligence Reports from the National Security Council's Vietnam Information Group, 1967-1975
• Ambassador Graham Martin and the Saigon Embassy’s Back Channel Communication Files, 1963-1975

British Documents

• Documents on British Policy Overseas
• The Nixon Years, 1969-74
• Foreign Office Files for China

Canadian Documents

• Documents on Canadian External Relations

Australian Documents

• National Archives of Australia (select "digital copies only" at the bottom of the advanced search form)

Vietnamese Documents

• Documents of an Elite Viet Cong Delta Unit: The Demolition Platoon of the 514th Battalion (translated)
• Vietnamese materials collected by Jeffrey Race (In Vietnamese. Available via Interlibrary Loan from the Center for Research Libraries)
• Virtual Vietnam Archive (contains some Vietnamese-language material in the Combined Document Exploitation Center collection)

Foreign-language documents in translation

• Cold War International History Project
• Indochinese War (Wilson Center Digital Archive)
• Geneva Conference of 1954 (Wilson Center Digital Archive)
• Vietnam War (Wilson Center Digital Archive)
• Parallel History Project

Published document collections

• List from catalogue

Government Documents

• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (UK)

Newspapers & Magazines

English-language

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Gale Historical Newspapers
• Readers Guide Retrospective

French

• Le Monde

Russian

• Pravda

Chinese

• Ren min ri bao (People's Daily)

Other Reports

• RAND Corporation Publications

Secondary Sources

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political Social and Military History
• The Indochina War (1945-1956): An Interdisciplinary Tool

Bibliographies

• "Vietnam War Bibliography"
• Published bibliographies on the Vietnam War
• Published bibliographies on Indochinese War

Article Databases

• Historical Abstracts
• America: History and Life
• JSTOR
• Persée
• Francis