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  • 7 May 2008:
    Session Videos and Presentations from the March 2008 6th Triennial Symposium Now Available Online
  • 31 Mar 2008:
    Amy Hooker, C.A. joins the Vietnam Archive as our new Reference Archivist
    • The Vietnam Archive is pleased to announce that Amy Hooker, C.A. has joined the Vietnam Archive as the new Assistant Archivist for Reference. Ms. Hooker's primary duties will involve responding to reference inquiries by email and telephone, as well as assisting patrons and researchers in our reading room. She will also contribute to the development of reference policies and public service projects to include online reference tools, outreach activities, and exhibits.

      A native of Midland, Texas, Ms. Hooker earned a B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in History from Texas Tech University. She completed a master's degree in Museum Science at TTU in 2000. As part of her degree program, Ms. Hooker completed an internship at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum in Juneau, Alaska. She returns to Tech after seven years at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, where she served as Director of Collections and Archives. She became a certified archivist in 2007. We are happy to welcome her to the team!
  • 6 Feb 2008:
    2008 6th Triennial Vietnam Symposium Agenda Now Available Online
    • The agenda for the 2008 6th Triennial Vietnam Symposium is now available online. The Symposium will occur on March 13-15th, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Park Plaza in Lubbock. Presenters will speak on a wide variety of topics.
      Please note that speakers and the schedule are subject to change, and we will update this agenda as changes become know.
  • 16 Jan 2008:
    Dr. Kelly Crager to lead Vietnam Archive's Oral History Project
    • The Vietnam Archive is pleased to announce that Dr. Kelly Crager has joined the Vietnam Archive as the new Head of the Oral History Project. Dr. Crager will coordinate and manage all aspects of the project, to include outreach, interviewing, transcription, and other administrative duties.

      Dr. Crager earned a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in History from Pittsburgh State University in Pittsburgh, Kansas. He completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of North Texas. While at UNT, he worked under Dr. Rob Marcello in the Oral History Program. Dr. Crager comes to the Vietnam Archive from Texas A&M University, where he taught United States History and American Foreign Relations. His forthcoming book, Hell under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, will be published by Texas A&M Press later this year.
  • 11 Jan 2008:
    Summer and Fall 2007 Friends of the Vietnam Center Newsletter Now Available Online (Vol. 14, Issue 3)

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The mission of the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University is to support and encourage research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia. Its functions are threefold: collection and preservation of pertinent source material; education through exhibits, classroom instruction, educational programs, and publications; and encouragement of scholarly research through exchanges, publishing of noteworthy research, symposia, and financial support.

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