Resources
A Selected List of Relevant LRC Resources and Websites
Reference Items
- "Fiction, U.S. and the Vietnam Experience.” Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998. Credo Reference. Web. 04 August 2011.
- "Tim Obrien (1946- )." The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Credo Reference. Web. 04 August 2011.
- "Vietnam." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2009. Credo Reference. Web. 04 August 2011.
- "Vietnam War." Chambers Dictionary of World History. London: Chambers Harrap, 2005. Credo Reference. Web. 04 August 2011.
- "Vietnam War." Encyclopedia of American Studies. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Credo Reference. Web. 04 August 2011.
- "Vietnam War." France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005. Credo Reference. Web. 04 August 2011.
Database Articles
- Barden, Thomas. "Urban Legends in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 22.1 (2010): 1-14. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Bickerton, Ian J., and Kenneth J. Hagan. "The US and the Unintended Consequences of War." History Today 58.1 (2008): 14-21. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Carpenter, Lucas. "'It Don't Mean Nothin': Vietnam War Fiction and Postmodernism." College Literature 30.2 (Spring 2003): 30-50. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 211. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Calloway, Catherine. "`How to tell a true war story': Metafiction in The Things They Carried." Critique 36.4 (1995): 249. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Farrell, Susan. "Tim O'Brien and Gender: A Defense of The Things They Carried." CEA Critic 66.1 (Fall 2003): 1-21. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 123. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Fischer, Jeffrey. "Killing at Close Range: A Study in Intertextuality." English Journal 95.3 (2006): 27-31. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Kimball, Jeffrey P. "Out of Primordial Cultural Ooze: Inventing Political and Policy Legacies about the U.S. Exit from Vietnam." Diplomatic History 34.3 (2010): 577-587. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Kyouraku, Mahoko. "Gender in War: The Case of the Vietnam War and 'Vietnamese Heroic Mother'." Social Alternatives 29.1 (2010): 11-14. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Lawrence, Mark Atwood. "Too Late or Too Soon? Debating the Withdrawal from Vietnam in the Age of Iraq." Diplomatic History 34, no. 3 (June 2010): 589-600. Academic Search Premier, EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- O'Gorman, Farrell. "The Things They Carried as Composite Novel." War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 10.2 (1998): 289. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Pach, Chester. "“Our Worst Enemy Seems to Be the Press”: TV News, the Nixon Administration, and U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1969–1973." Diplomatic History 34.3 (2010): 555-565. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Roasa, Dustin. "Vietnamese Dissidents: Absent from the Western Mind." Dissent (00123846) 57.3 (2010): 16-21. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Silbergleid, Robin. "Making Things Present: Tim O'Brien's Autobiographical Metafiction." Contemporary Literature 50.1 (2009): 129-155. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Smith, Jack. "The things he carries: For Tim O'Brien, the Vietnam War has remained a crucible in his fiction, but the power of imagination and memory, and 'our elusive interior worlds,' loom large, too." Writer 123.7 (2010): 16-47. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Vernon, Alex. "Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Mosaic 36.4 (Dec. 2003): 171-188. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 79. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Volkmer, Jon. "Telling the ‘Truth’ About Vietnam." War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 11.1 (1999): 240. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
- Wesley, Marilyn. "Truth and Fiction in Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried." College Literature 29.2 (2002): 1. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 Aug. 2011.
Circulating Books from the LRC and our Library Network, SAILS
- Baber, Asa. Land of a Million Elephants [1970]. SAILS
- Del Vecchio, John M. 13th Valley LRC: PS 3554 E4463 A613 1982
- Greene, Graham. Quiet American LRC: PZ 3 G8319 QUI2 1957
- Halberstam, David. One Very Hot Day [1967]. SAILS
- Hasford, Gustav. The Short Timers [1979] SAILS
- Heinemann, Larry. Close Quarters [1977]. SAILS
- Henderson, Bruce B. Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape from the Vietnam War [2010]. SAILS
- Lederer, William J. Ugly American LRC: PZ 4 L468 UG 1958
- Nelson, Deborah. The War Behind Me [2008]. SAILS
- O’Brien, Tim. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home LRC: DS 559.5 O27 1999
- O’Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato LRC: PS 3565 B75 G6 1978
- O’Brien, Tim. Northern Lights [1975]. SAILS
- O’Brien, Tim. The Nuclear Age [1985]. SAILS
- Zumwalt, James G. Bare Feet, Iron Will: Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam’s Battlefields. [2010] SAILS
DVDs and CDs
- Apocalypse Now. SAILS [DVD, 2001]
- Casualties of War. SAILS [DVD, 2001]
- Full Metal Jacket. LRC: DVD 138 [1999]
- Good Morning Vietnam. LRC: DVD 812 [2006]
- Hamburger Hill. SAILS [DVD, 1998]
- Hair. SAILS [DVD, 2009]
- Inside the Vietnam War. SAILS [DVD, 2008]
- Platoon. SAILS [DVD, 2000]
- Vietnam: America’s Conflict. SAILS [DVD, 2009]
- We Were Soldiers. SAILS [DVD, 2002]
Web Resources
For All Disciplines:
From The Forum Network, a video of Tim O’Brien reading a selection from The Things They Carried:
http://forum-network.org/lecture/tim-obrien-reads-things-they-carriedFrom Time, an article about things Iraq soldiers carry:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1558328,00.htmlFrom Google Books, read part of The Things They Carried:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Op6eKrkxPq4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=falseInterdisciplinary discussion questions from California State University Northridge:
http://library.csun.edu/smeng/CommonReaderDiscussion.htmlFor English:
From a Composition I blogger:
http://aikenenglish1102spring2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/things-they-carried-essay-topics.htmlFrom the National Endowment for the Arts: http://www.neabigread.org/books/thethingstheycarried/teachersguide02.php
From the CSUN Freshman Reading Program:
http://www.csun.edu/~alr2303/TTCHome.htmlFrom the International Reading Association:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/love-brien-tell-true-1012.htmlFrom Web English Teacher:
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/obrien.htmlFor History:
From The Best of History Web Sites:
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Vietnam.shtmlFrom The Vietnam Center and Archive:
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu