{"title":"<i>Vietnam</i>. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum","authors":"Brian Robertson","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Review| November 01 2023 Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California. National Archives and Records Administration and Nixon Foundation, Curators; Mary C. Brennan, Advisor; Lien Hang Nguyen, Advisor; David Farber, Advisor; Dean Kotlowski, Advisor; Gregory Cumming, Review Coordinator. October 14, 2016-Ongoing. https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/museum. Brian Robertson Brian Robertson Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 122–127. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Robertson; Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 122–127. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Vietnam has been a sore point at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. In 2005, as the Nixon Foundation—a private organization that supports the museum and library—arranged to transfer Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, DC, area to Yorba Linda, California, they simultaneously cancelled a conference on the topic of the conflict in Vietnam, enraging scholars. The Nixon Foundation’s actions led to sixteen prominent Nixon scholars signing a public petition to prevent the transfer of the materials to California. Although their protests failed to prevent the transfer of materials, the outcry led to the Archivist of the United States, Allen Weinstein, appointing serious Cold War scholar Timothy Naftali as the first federal director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.1 Naftali, to great public acclaim, curated an accurate Watergate exhibit—about the scandal that brought down Nixon’s Presidency—but he was met with fierce resistance from the Nixon Foundation... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":"73 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Review| November 01 2023 Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California. National Archives and Records Administration and Nixon Foundation, Curators; Mary C. Brennan, Advisor; Lien Hang Nguyen, Advisor; David Farber, Advisor; Dean Kotlowski, Advisor; Gregory Cumming, Review Coordinator. October 14, 2016-Ongoing. https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/museum. Brian Robertson Brian Robertson Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 122–127. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Robertson; Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 122–127. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Vietnam has been a sore point at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. In 2005, as the Nixon Foundation—a private organization that supports the museum and library—arranged to transfer Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, DC, area to Yorba Linda, California, they simultaneously cancelled a conference on the topic of the conflict in Vietnam, enraging scholars. The Nixon Foundation’s actions led to sixteen prominent Nixon scholars signing a public petition to prevent the transfer of the materials to California. Although their protests failed to prevent the transfer of materials, the outcry led to the Archivist of the United States, Allen Weinstein, appointing serious Cold War scholar Timothy Naftali as the first federal director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.1 Naftali, to great public acclaim, curated an accurate Watergate exhibit—about the scandal that brought down Nixon’s Presidency—but he was met with fierce resistance from the Nixon Foundation... You do not currently have access to this content.
期刊介绍:
For over twenty-five years, The Public Historian has made its mark as the definitive voice of the public history profession, providing historians with the latest scholarship and applications from the field. The Public Historian publishes the results of scholarly research and case studies, and addresses the broad substantive and theoretical issues in the field. Areas covered include public policy and policy analysis; federal, state, and local history; historic preservation; oral history; museum and historical administration; documentation and information services, corporate biography; public history education; among others.