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 Finding Aid: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Literature of the War Item Number: 2190000000

Pike Collection
Location: Math Stacks 3


Scope & Content:

  • Fictional materials - short stories, novellas, poetry, essays, etc. by NLF, DRV, and Pathet Lao authors. This section is a collection of fictional material-short stories, novellas, poetry, and essays by NLF, North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao authors.

Biographical Note:

  • Professor Pike was born in 1925. He served as a journalist in the Army during World War II (in the Pacific Theater of Operations) and during the Korean Conflict. He earned degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and American University. He served as an FSO in Taiwan, Korea, Lebanon, and Vietnam. In 1982 he began teaching at UC-Berkeley and in 1997 moved Texas Tech University. Professor Pike housed and supported the Collection until 1982 when he moved it to Berkeley. It remained there until 1992 when Berkeley considered discontinuing its support for the Indo-China Studies Project. After being approached by Professor Pike, Dr. James Reckner, Director of the Vietnam Center at Tech, and Dr. David Murrah, Assistant Director of Libraries for the Special Collections, worked together to bring the Collection to the Archive in 1994

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
341
War Literature (General Literature), 1963-1965
2
War Literature (General Literature), 1966-1967
3
War Literature (General Literature), 1968
4
War Literature (Clippings), 1963-1968
5
War Literature (General Literature), 1969-1976
6
War Literature (Clippings), 1969-1976
7
War Literature (General Literature), 1977-1979
351
War Literature (Clippings), 1976-1979
2
War Literature (General Literature), 1980-1983
3
War Literature (Clippings), 1980-1983
4
War Literature (General Literature), 1984-1985
5
War Literature (Clippings), 1984-1985
6
War Literature (General Literature), 1986-1990
7
War Literature (Clippings), 1986-1990

Digitized Materials

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