Use the Libraries' ADVANCED SEARCH to find books on your topic in the WMU collection.

If you already know the title or author, use the pull-down arrow to select Title or Author.

When looking for books by topic, enter your keyword(s) into the search boxes.

SEARCH TIP:  If you are using a phrase in your search, be sure and put it in quotation marks, e.g., "vietnam war"

SEARCH TIP:  Use an asterisk  *  to pick up variant endings of a word, e.g., discrimin* will retrieve discriminate, discrimination, discriminated, etc.

The WMU Libraries uses the Library of Congress (LC) classification for its books.  Because of its peculiarities, you can rarely search in just ONE place for books on your topic.  Use the catalog to identify books, and if you see a pattern emerging in call numbers, then you can go browse in that area in the stacks.  Most books on American history are classified in the Es and Fs, located on the second floor of Waldo Library.

 

Use the following subject headings to find books in WMU Library Search. Combine geographic terms and time periods with different subjects to find specific sources on your topic of interest. For example:

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--China [or Cambodia, Laos, etc.] 

Agent Orange--environmental aspects--Vietnam

 

Geographies and Time Periods:

Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Vietnam--History--1954-1975

Vietnam--History--20th century

Cambodia--History

Cambodia--History--1953-1975

Cambodia--History--Civil war, 1970-1975

Laos--History

Indochina--History--1945-

Indochinese War, 1946-1954

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)--History

 

Key Events

My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968

Tet Offensive, 1968

Tonkin Gulf Incidents, 1964

Mayagüez Incident, 1975

 

Politics and Diplomacy

Politics & government

Foreign relations

Diplomatic history

 

Military

Aerial operations

Agent orange -- environmental aspects

Agent orange -- health aspects

Atrocities

Campaigns [for example: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns--Cambodia]

Civilian relief

Prisoners and prisons

Refugees

 

Social and Cultural Aspects

Protest movements

Public opinion

Social aspects

Mass media and the war

Literature and the conflict