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Our many collections on Southeast Asia document the social, political, and economic changes in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam. Subject strengths include the World War II Burma campaign, the Vietnam War, and the US military presence in the Philippines.
Our many collections on Southeast Asia document the social, political, and economic changes in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam. Subject strengths include the World War II Burma campaign, the Vietnam War, and the US military presence in the Philippines.
Explore materials relating to counter-guerrilla operations, especially in Vietnam and the Philippines
American journalist and writer, member of the United States Operations Mission to Vietnam
American Journalist, Author and Correspondent
Alternative newspaper aimed at American servicemen published during the Vietnam War
Sound recordings of radio broadcasts to Vietnam
US OSS officer and special assistant to the US ambassador in South Vietnam, 1965–67
Lieutenant colonel, US army; Rand consultant; counterguerrilla expert
Police adviser, United States Operations Mission, Vietnam
US ambassador to Cambodia, 1962–64
US human rights activist
US ambassador to Burma, 1952–54
US army brigadier general in China-Burma-India theater
Issuances from 1950 to 1951
Consultant on Vietnamese affairs for Rand and US Department of State
Chief, Public Administration Division, United States Operations Mission to the Philippines, 1952–55
US sociologist and author, The Philippine Answer to Communism
Materials related to Allied and Japanese intelligence activities in the Philippines during World War II
Trial materials related to the attempted coup of 1965
President, National Liberation Front of Aceh Sumatra
US political scientist and author, Indonesian Images of Their National Self
Relates to Allied occupation of Dutch Timor and Portuguese Timor
"Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?"
Firing Line with Norman Thomas, chairman of the Socialist Party of the United States
Penelope Van Tuyl, a Hoover Visiting Fellow and Deputy Director of the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center (WCSC) presented a talk entitled “Capturing and Preserving Documentary and Testimonial Evidence of Khmer Rouge Atrocity” at the 11th annual Hoover Archives Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes.
The broadcast archive of William F. Buckley Jr.'s television series Firing Line at the Hoover Institution Archives includes many videos concerning the Vietnam War. In this one, Buckley debates Senator Vance Hartke concerning Hartke’s dissatisfaction with the war. Click here to purchase the full video from Amazon. Click here to view clips or to search for more Firing Line videos.
In September, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives received a large donation of World War II–era research materials from Roger Mansell, a retired businessman from Palo Alto, California, who has spent the past twenty-one years researching the fates of Allied prisoners of war from the Pacific theater of that war.
The exhibit will showcase information regarding General Stilwell's infantry fighting in Burma, in 1944
