Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Representing Vietnam

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Reference works

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (Trexler Library Reference 959.7043 E56o)
Signed entries by invited scholars. Good for chronology and fact-checking.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org)
Communally authored. Check against other sources. The footnotes can be very useful.

UlrichsWeb
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Online Reference Shelf
A good resource for evaluating the political orientation of periodicals.

Online library catalogs of primary and secondary resources (i.e. books and government documents)

Trexler Library Catalog
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Books, Videos, Music
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation. Use E-ZBorrow for faster interlibrary loan.

E-ZBorrow
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website >Books, Videos, Music > E-ZBorrow
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

Periodical articles

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Includes the full text of about 3000 popular magazines and scholarly journals. Indexing (and some full text) back to the sixties for these magazines: New Republic, The Nation, National Review, Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Evening Post. See journal stacks on level C of the library for print copies of magazines.

Alternative Press Index Archive
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Choose the archive (as opposed to current index). Indexes non-mainstream periodicals, 1969-present. Most will need to be requested on interlibrary loan.

LexisNexis Academic
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Indexes the New York Times from 1969-present. See microfilm on A level for full text of the newspaper.

print indexes. . .

New York Times Index
Located adjacent to the reference stacks on level A of the library, this index goes back to the beginnings of the newspaper in the 1850s. Text of paper is on microfilm in the microforms room on level A.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
This index to popular magazines goes back to the early 1900s.Includes these magazines, all of which the library has in print or microfilm, or online as noted above: Christian Century, Nation, New Republic, National Review, Time, Newsweek, USNWR, Christianity Today, Commonweal, Commentary, Fortune, Harper's Magazine, Life, National Geographic, New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Saturday Review, Yale Review

more periodicals. . .

The Muhlenberg Weekly dates back to the early 1900s and could be a source for local perspectives on the Vietnam War. This publication is on level C with the bound journals (inquire at the reference desk for additional copies). The Allentown Morning Call from the Vietnam War era is on microfilm at the Allentown Public Library at 12th and Hamilton Streets in downtown Allentown. The The Times (London) for this period is at Lehigh University.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Text at Trexler link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog. NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > ILL

Government documents and oral histories

Veterans History Project (http://www.loc.gov/vets/)
From the Library of Congress.

The Wars for Vietnam (http://vietnam.vassar.edu/)
From Vassar College.

Vietnam Project (http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/)
From Texas Tech University

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.