The Impact of CRL
Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.
![One of several newspapers used in research for a thesis on Vietnam. Miền Nam, July 17, 1967. CRL collections.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Mien-Nam-1967-2-crop-color.png?itok=Xg96rDgg)
Vietnamese Newspapers Essential for Berkeley Dissertation
UC Berkeley graduate student uses CRL’s extensive collection of South Vietnamese newspapers for his dissertation on the social history of the interregnum period, 1963-1967..![U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Vietnam Demarcation Line and Demilitarized Zone. [Washington, D.C,1957] Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/89695318/.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Vietnam_demarcation_line_and_demilitarized_zone_0.jpeg?itok=RhDfGmGy)
Vietnamese Newspapers Shed Light on Failed Nation Building
CRL’s Vietnamese newspaper holdings were an invaluable resource for Professor Geoffrey Stewart’s forthcoming book titled, Vietnam’s Lost Revolution: Ngo Dinh Diem’s Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1955–1963.![William Suddaby for the Empire Marketing Board, c. 1930. Library and Archives Canada, C-109435](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/opium-story-3%20for%20CRL%20website.jpg?itok=8NTG1N6g)
Excavating Attitudes on Opium Prohibition from Colonial Records
British Colonial Office records held by CRL reveal the dynamics of a robust opium trade in Southeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th century.![](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/the_saigon_post_cleaned_0.jpg?itok=EwWDtFJk)
Primary Sources Improve Course on Vietnam War Propaganda
A history professor at Grinnell employed CRL's rich collection of Vietnam War-era newspapers and defense studies to enrich student research on propaganda and public opinion.![<em>The Korea Times</em>, October 20, 1956.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/carthage_college_1200_400_0.jpg?itok=Op7AlMAv)