The Virtual Vietnam Archive enables scholars, students and all others interested in this remarkable period in our world history to conduct research directly from universities, schools, libraries, and homes. Of equal importance, it will enable Vietnam veterans - those who actually served - to access records that might be of importance to them in their continuing efforts to understand their own experiences. It will facilitate the research and writing of participants' memoirs, and will give high school and college students an important and authoritative source of information as they seek to understand the complexities of the Vietnam War.

When the Virtual Vietnam Archive project is complete, it will include a record for every item in the Vietnam Archive. All non-copyrighted items are available online, free of charge. The Virtual Archive currently includes finding aids for all Vietnam Archive collections, and over 1.8 million pages of materials online, including documents, photographs, slides, negatives, audio and moving image recordings, artifacts, and oral histories. New items are being added daily.

In addition to the resources available through the Vietnam Archive and the Virtual Archive, we are adding reference databases that provide general information regarding Vietnam and the Vietnam War. If you are having problems finding information you are looking for, try our Frequently Asked Questions/Knowledge Base section, which provides answers to many of our most commonly asked questions.

The Virtual Vietnam Archive employees a number of full-time employees, and numerous part-time student workers, both graduate students and undergrads. Materials are digitized using a variety of equipment, including HP flatbed scanners, Fujitsu high-speed and flatbed scanners, an EPSON large bed scanner, Nikon slide scanner, HP large format scanner/plotter, Otari reel-to-reel and cassette digitization system, an Elmo 16mm film digitizer, and an 8mm film digitizer. Digitized materials are stored on three Dell servers, with backup copies stored onsite in a cold storage vault. The Virtual Vietnam Archive utilizes a relational database system (Cuadra Star) produced by Cuadra Associates.

Digital copies of materials in the Virtual Archive are available. See our pricing list for more information.

For questions concerning the Virtual Vietnam Archive, contact us at 806-742-9010 or vietnamarchive@ttu.edu. For technical questions, first try the help pages included in the Virtual Archive, or contact vawebmaster@ttu.edu.

Return to Top