Connelly Library

The Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War Collection–the largest of its kind in the world–provides a body of evidence demonstrating how creative interpretations of the Vietnam War, and the highly volatile era in which it took place, continue to evolve and influence perceptions of American popular culture. The Collection focuses on works of fictive and documentary expression; sources include novels, poetry, literary and publisher archives, artwork, films, music, and ephemera.

Read an essay on the content and research uses of the Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War Collection. 

Literary Archives at La Salle

La Salle University's Special Collections holds the literary archives of Vietnam War writers, including:

D. F. Brown 

W. D. Ehrhart

Richard Eric Johnson

Wayne Karlin 

Richard Levine 

Doug Rawlings

James (Jim) Talone

Small Press Archives 

First Casualty Press Archives 

Material relating to three important anthologies edited by Jan Barry:  "Winning hearts and minds : war poems by Vietnam Veterans" (1972) / edited by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry, and Basil T. Paquet; "Demilitarized zones : veterans after Vietnam" (1976) / edited by Jan Barry and W.D. Ehrhart; and "Peace is our profession : poems and passages of war protest" (1981) / edited by Jan Barry. 

Archives of the Viet Nam Generation journal (1988-1998) with material from its allied newsletter (1988-1992) and the Burning Cities Press.

Other Archival Collections

Lawrence Abbott Collection of Conscientious Objector and Anti-War Literature

The Lawrence Abbott Collection of Conscientious Objector and Anti-War Literature contains both well-known and more obscure anti-war publications from the late 1960s and 1970s, along with official conscientious objector government forms and passivist literature from church organizations.

Vietnam War Nursing Literature - Browse all works

Vietnam War Poetry - Browse all poetic works 

Vietnam War Films - Browse motion pictures 

Vietnam War Television - Browse made-for-TV movies and television series

Vietnam War Documentaries - Browse documentaries and topical works

Vietnam War Woman Authors - Browse works by women authors

Vietnam War Juvenile Works - Browse works on the Vietnam War written for young adults

Vietnam War Comic Books - Browse all graphic novels and comic magazines

Vietnam War Bildungsromans - Browse coming-of-age novels

Vietnam War Screenplays - Browse Hollywood and television scripts that are about the war or feature characters that served in war        

Many scholars have leveraged material from the Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War Collection for their books.  Below is a partial list of these books. 

Directory of Collections related to the Experience of the Vietnam War

The aim of this directory is to assist researchers in locating archival and manuscript collections related to the experience of the Vietnam War in repositories across the world.