Big Read Book Selection 2014: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED : Websites

This website, maintained by the Internet Public Library (IPL), is an invaluable resource for conducting literature research. Find biographical and critical resources about Tim O'Brien and his works from this page.

From the Library of Congress website, this section lists various other sites for finding literary criticisms.

From the Big Read website, this section discusses the book and its characters.

From the Library of Congress Veterans History Project site: audio, video, and text interviews, along with photos, memoirs, and more. Links to Part 2 and Part 3 included. (primary sources)

PBS American Experience producers interviewed O'Brien in November 2009, discussing his war experiences. (Text version)

This site offers a brief history of the Vietnam War, Guerrilla tactics, and more including additional PBS web sources.

The History.com site provides a video listing facts about the war itself and U.S. soldiers statistics. Along with other videos, various facts and overviews of the war are included as you scoll down the page.

From PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), this site chronicles the Vietnam War from 1954 to 1975.

From Texas Tech University, The Vietnam Center and Archives makes available via this site "...over 4 million pages of scanned materials." You will find documents, photographs, oral histories, maps, and more. "All non-copyrighted and digitized materials are available for users to download." (Site) Searchable and browsable.
(primary sources)

This site from Vassar College include an overview of the war, various documents (treaties, memos, letters, reports, etc), specific battles, and more.
(primary source)

From the Library of Congress Veterans History Project site, this section covers women's contribution to fighting wars including Vietnam: audio, video, and text interviews, along with photos, memoirs, and more. (primary sources)

The Wellesley College Department of Political Science Vietnam War website provides a vast amount of sites not only pertaining to women and the war, but also the war itself, POWs, photos, various battles, veterans, documents, and much more. (primary source)

From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Yale University School of Medicine website.

From the U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (National Center for Biotechnology Information) website, this article explores how "Involvement in warfare can have dramatic consequences for the mental health and well-being of miliary personnel." (from article abstract)

From the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) site, "The Vietnam Experience Study was a multidimentional assessment of the health of Vietnam Veterans..." (site)

From PBS' American Experience site. Includes timeline, individual stories, and so much more.

From Public Radio International site, an audio "article" about the treatment of returning Vietnam War-era soldiers. See other audio articles listed further down the webpage.

From the Embassy of the United States website, information mostly pertaining to relations with Vietnam since the war. Further down the page find links to other sites pertain to this topic.

Information made available from the War Legacies Project and Ford Foundation.