TABLE OF CONTENTS
Primary Sources
“South Vietnamese Officer Executes a Viet Cong Prisoner” Photograph (1968)
Combat Area Casualties (1998)
Memorandum for the President from Henry Kissinger: “Possible Responses to Enemy Activity in South Vietnam” (1969)
Agenda and Testimony of William Colby (1970)
Quang Nam Province: Phoenix/Phung Hoang Briefing (1970)
About the Author
Fritz Fischer is a Professor of History and Director of History Education at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the 1998 recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences award for outstanding teaching and the recipient of the Mortar Board Outstanding Teacher Award in 2003 and 2006.
The Tet Offensive
Primary Sources
Dry, Rachael. "Petraeus on Vietnam's Legacy." The Washington Post, January 14, 2007. Excerpts from Gen. Petraeus's 1987 doctoral thesis.
Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Virtual Library. Primary source documents from Nixon and his aides.
National Archives. Research In Military Records: The Vietnam War. The National Archives has collated and digitized primary sources and statistics related to Vietnam.
PBS. The American Experience Online: Vietnam On-Line. The PBS American Experience series on Vietnam collected basic primary source documents pertaining to the war.
Texas Tech University. The Vietnam Center and Archive. A treasure trove of primary source documents on the Vietnam War.
Vietnam Documents On-Line. Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: Vietnam. The Mt. Holyoke International Relations Program has collected dozens of primary documents for each year of the Vietnam War.