• THE VIETNAM CENTER AND ARCHIVE
  • Texas Tech University

 Finding Aid: Curtis Peoples Collection Item Number: 5730000000

Individual Collection
Location: D115.1A; Negative Collection, Cold Storage Vault, Museum Objects, Library, Map Collection


Scope & Content:

  • Less than one linear foot of documents and research material regarding Malaysia, strategic hamlets, and Vietnamese villages from Peoples' Master of Arts thesis, camcorder video tapes, maps, books, negatives from a trip to Vietnam made by Peoples in 2000, 2 CD-ROMs (173rd Infantry Brigade Reunion and a recorded radio transmission from a helicopter in Vietnam in 1967), artifacts (shoulder insignia), and a program from 173rd Airborne Brigade Reunion in Ft. Worth, TX, in 2001.

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
D115.1A0101
173d Airborne Brigade Reunion 2001 Program
02
Article from Texas Monthly (October 2002) about Tim O'Brien
Instructions for Preparing and Submitting Theses and Dissertations, Texas Tech University (1998)
RAND Corporation Publications 
03
The VietnameseStrategic Hamlets: A Preliminary Report by John C. Donnell and Gerald C. Hickey (September 1962)
Organizing Counterinsurgency in Malaya, 1947-1960 by Riley Sunderland (September 1964)
Winning the Hearts and Minds of the People: Malaya, 1948-1960 by Riley Sunderland (September 1964)
Resettlement and Food Control in Malaya by Riley Sunderland (September 1964)
Articles 
04
Did John F. Kennedy Give the Order to Withdraw from Vietnam by James K. Galbraith
The Guerrilla War in Malaya by James E. Dougherty (from US Naval Institute Proceedings, September 1958)
Imperialism, Colonial Identity, and Race in Algeria, 1830-1870: the Role of the French Medical Corps by Patricia M.E. Lorcin
The Tuan-Lien Local Defense System at the Time of the Taiping Rebellion by Philip Kuhn
Transnational Corporations and Asian Inequality by David Kowalewski
U.S. Hired Guns Criticized by William C. Selover (Christian Science Monitor)
Book Excerpts 
05
Chapter 4: FDR, Truman and Indochina (from Into the Dark House)
Entry (Vietnam - Krieg) in a German Encyclopedia (Sowjetsystem und Demokratische Gesellschaft: Eine Vergleichende Enzyklopadie)
Chapter 9: The Spoils of War: the Societe de Geographie de Paris and the French Empire, 1914-1919 by Michael Heffernan (from Geography and Imperialism: 1820-1940)
Chapter 10: Geopolitics, Cartography, and Geographic Knowledge: Envisioning Africa from Fascist Italy by David Atkinson (from Geography and Imperialism: 1820-1940)
Strategic Hamlets in South Vietnam: A Survey and a Comparison by Milton E. Osborne (1965)
06
Vietnamese Villages in Transition by Bernhard Dahm and Vincent J. Houben (1999)
A Study of the Emergency Regulations of Malaya, 1948-1960 by P.B.G. Waller (March 1967)
07
Hearings of the Subcommittee on United States Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress (Second Session) Part 6 (24-26 February 1970)
Foreign Relations 
08
Excerpts from Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume I
09
Excerpts from Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume III, Vietnam: June-December 1965
10
Foreign Relations, 1964-65
Operations of US Marine Forces, Vietnam 
11
August 1966
November 1966
September 1967
Strategic Hamlets
12General Material 
13
Coursework Papers (Texas Tech University)
14
Captured Documents
15
Department of State
16
District of Columbia Research
17
District of Columbia Research
Research Material for British Malaya 
18
Malaya - British Views
19
British Malaya
20
Malaya - Chinese Ethnicity
21
British Advisory Mission (Microfilm)
22
Hearts and Minds in Gurrilla Warfare: Malaya Emergency
Various Folders
23
Doi Moi (policy of economic renovation)
24
McNamara Paper Stuff
D115.1B02Various Folders 
01
Michigan State University
02
Agroville
03
Pacification General
04
Lessons from the Vietnam War: British View
05
Bibiliographies and Handwritten Notes
06
USOM (United States Operations Mission)
07
CIA / White House
08
Press Statements
09
Book Reviews
10
173rd Airborne
11
General Publications
12
General Reports and Articles
13
Douglas Pike Collection - Unit 3: Statistics of the Vietnam War (from the finding aid)
14
South Vietnam
15
US Government
16
North Vietnam Third COuntry Forces
17
Third Country Forces in Vietnam
D115.1C03
Various Folders
01
Third Country Forces in Vietnam
02
Third Country Forces in Vietnam
03
173rd Airborne Brigade Reunion
04
Thesis Material
05
Email Correspondence
06
Copyright Laws
07
Audio and Video Preservation Techniques Articles
08
Audio and Video Preservation Techniques Articles
09
Assorted Papers
10
Various articles and correspondence related to the 173rd Airborne Brigade
D115.1D04 (Oversized)01
The New Villages of Malaya: A Community Study by Ray Nyce, a thesis submitted to the Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut (May 1962) (photocopy)
Oversized poem titled Dare to Hope by David A. Gee, 1995

Separated Materials:

Books:The Selling of the President, 1968 by Joe McGinniss.
 What You Should Know About Vietnam, edited by Joe Wing.
 Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
 The Pentagon Papers by Neil Sheehan, Hedrick Smith, E.W. Kenworthy and Fox Butterfield.
 Dispatches by Michael Herr.
 Five Women I Love: Bob Hope's Vietnam Story by Bob Hope.
 The Times House of Commons, 1955.
 The Struggle for Algeria by Joseph Kraft.
 Nationalism in COlonial Africa by Thomas Hodgkin.
 Cultures in Conflict by Stanley J. Heginbotham.
 A Lonely Kind of War by Marshall Harrison.
 A Sadness that was Vietnam by Richard Philip Jennett.
 Introduction to Japanese Politics (2nd Ed.) by Louis D. Hayes.
 PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam by Douglas Pike.
 World Security: Challenges for a New Century (3rd Ed.) Michael T. Klare.
 Viet Cong by Douglas Pike.
 Defense of Western Europe, compiled by Walter Daniels.
 War, Peace, and the Viet Cong by Douglas Pike.
 Service Wife by Anonymous.
 Textual Empires by Mary Catherine Quilty.
 Europeans in Africa by Robert O. Collins.
 Viet Nam edited by Marvin E. Gettleman.
 1964 Supplement to Parliamentary Elections (3rd Ed.) by A. Norman Schofield, LL.M.
 Stories That Won't Go Away: Women in Vietnam 1959-1975 compiled by Betty J. Merrell and Priscilla Tunnell.
 Josephus Daniels in Mexico.
 Vietnam: A History in Documents edited by Gareth Porter.
 U.S. Army Area Handbook for Vietnam.
 Doctor Tom Dooley, My Story by Thomas A. Dooley.
 Out of the Night by William P. Mahedy.
 Volunteers, One and All by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
 British Honduras by D.A.G. Waddell.
 Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien.
 Harold Nicholson: The War Years, Diaries and Letters 1939-1945 edited by Nigel Nicholson.
 Harold Nicholson: Diaries and Letters 1930-1939 edited by Nigel Nicholson.
 Malaysia edited by Wang Gungwu.
 A Modern History of Vietnam by Nguyen Phut Tan.
 The Long Long War by Richard L. Clutterbuck.
 The United States and Malaysia by James W. Gould.
 American Guerrilla in the Philippines by Ira Wolfert.
 The Army Wife by Nancy Shea (2 different editions).
 The Air Force Wife by Nancy Shea.
 Anthony Eden: The Chronicles of a Career by Lewis Board.
 The Armed Forces Officer by the Department of Defense.
Photographs:Negatives, VAN003192 - VAN003681.
Maps:Section: 12 Drawer: 12 Folder: 1.
 Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Eastern Thailand (National Geographic, 1964).
 Southeast Asia (National Geographic, 1961).
Museum Objects:573museum1121: 20 shoulder sleeve insignia for the 173rd Infantry Brigade (1967) and 20 contemporary 'Airborne' patches.
 573museum2905 173rd Airborne Brigade golf shirt.
 573museum2906 173rd Airborne Brigade baseball cap.
 573museum2907 17rd Airborne Brigade baseball cap.
 573museum2908 headband.
Electronic Media:573EM0018: 173 Airborne Brigade Reunion.
 573EM0182: Recorded radio transmissions of helicopter pilots in Vietnam, 1967.
Moving Images:573VI2047 - 573VI2049: VHSC tapes of strategic hamlet footage from Vietnam.
 573VI2335: Franciscan Charity: Helping the Orphan and the Cripple (2 DVDs).

Digitized Materials

Portions of this collection have been digitized. Use the links below to view these items.

Please note that all items may be available through these searches. Additionally, only up to 500 items will be displayed.

To search for items within this collection, or within all of the holdings of the Vietnam Archive, go to the Virtual Vietnam Archive

Share or Bookmark This Record
  • © Copyright The Vietnam Center and Archive, Office of International Affairs, Texas Tech University - All Rights Reserved