Case Studies

Establishing a Vietnam War Veterans Archive

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Abstract

In January 1981, the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, entered into an agreement with the Vietnam War Veterans Archives and History Center of Santa Rosa, California. The Department agreed to become the repository for records collected by the Center, documenting the experience of individual soldiers during the Vietnam War. This article will consider the history of the project and the various strategies devised to survey and collect materials, examining the relationship between an archival repository and an advocacy group in collecting contemporary records.

How to Cite:

Engst, E. D., (1985) “Establishing a Vietnam War Veterans Archive”, Archival Issues 10(1), 43–52. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10399