“The Vietnam Center and Archive Celebrates Black History Month,” an exhibit highlighting and honoring the contributions and achievements of African-American veterans from the Vietnam War Era, is now available online. The exhibit includes photographs, letters, moving images, and other documents related to African-American military service.

Image: Lt. Lilly [Last name unknown], Army Nurse Corps, in 91st Evacuation Hospital Emergency Room, 1970, VAN006504, James Evans Collection.

Texas Tech University, the History department, and the Vietnam Center and Archive honored Dr. James Reckner with a retirement reception at the Merket Alumni Center on Friday, January 9. Dr. Reckner taught history at TTU for twenty years, and was the founding director of the Vietnam Center and Archive. Colleagues, former students, and Tech officials wished Dr. Reckner well in his retirement. He also received congratulations from U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, Interim Provost Dr. Jane Winer, Chancellor Kent Hance, and Khuc Minh Tho. In addition, the Vietnam Center and Archive and the History department gave Dr. Reckner gifts realted to his personal interest in photography, such as a telephoto lens, a digital picture frame, a tripod, and a photo printer.

Congratulations on your retirement, your twenty years of service to Texas Tech, and thank you for all you have done for the Vietnam Center and Archive, Dr. Reckner!

See more pictures of Dr. Reckner’s Retirement Reception in our photoalbum.

TTU News Article

The Vietnam Archive will be closed January 9th, from 2:30 to 5 PM so our staff and faculty may attend a retirement reception for founding director Dr. James Reckner at the Merket Alumni Center. Dr. Reckner has served Texas Tech for over 20 years as both a professor in the Department of History and as founding director of the Vietnam Center and Archive.

The Director of the Vietnam Center and Archive, Dr. Stephen F. Maxner, has received a Presidential appointment to the board of directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation, a government agency that works to strengthen the United States’ relationship with Vietnam through educational exchanges in science and technology. Congratulations, Dr. Maxner!

Related Links:
White House press release
Vietnam Education Foundation

Oral Historian Dr. Kelly Crager will travel to Washington D.C. next week to participate in academic gatherings and a Congressional briefing. First on his agenda is a panel discussion, “American POWs of the Japanese: World War II Experiences,” at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, part of The Elliot School of International Affairs, at the George Washington University. On Wednesday, September 10 he will speak before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the issue of compensation for prisoners of the Japanese during World War II. Finally, on September 11, he will make a presentation on his recently published dissertation, “Hell under the Rising Sun: American POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway,” at the Navy Memorial Lecture Hall, in an event co-sponsored by Navy Memorial and the Asia Society. Congratulations, Dr. Crager, on these outstanding achievements and contributions!

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