Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
SERIES 1: LAOS
SERIES 2: WRITINGS
Series 3: NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS AND PRESS RELEASES
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Timothy D. Allman Papers, 1969-1970
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Claudia Gunter, Peter Nelson.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
© 2003
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Creator:
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Allman, T.D. |
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Title:
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Timothy D. Allman Papers |
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Dates:
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1969-1970 |
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Abstract:
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Journalist. Contains notes, research materials, and drafts of manuscripts related to Allman's research on and reporting of the wars in Indochina.
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Extent:
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6 records storage boxes(6 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
Timothy D. Allman, journalist, was born in 1944. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1966 and did graduate study at Oxford in the 1970s. Allman worked as a freelance foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia from 1968 to 1971, where he did investigative and analytical reporting on the Vietnam War and the outbreak of the Cambodian war. He has contributed articles to numerous newspapers and magazines and has published several books on U.S. foreign policy.
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Draft of Allman's proposed PhD thesis for St Anthony's College, Oxford (never completed) plus his original news dispatches concerning the wars in Indochina, some of which were published in revised form by the Manchester Guardian for which he worked as a stringer at the time. The papers also include correspondence with people at the British Embassy in Vientiane, Laos.
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This collection is organized into three series:
Processing of the collection is minimal. Most folder titles have been taken from the titles or notes on the original folders in which the material arrived. The papers are organized loosely into three sections.
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SERIES 1: LAOS
Box
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Folder
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1 |
Allman chapter 1, draft for part of a book
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2-8 |
Allman History (possibly a typescript of a book by Allman)
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10-12 |
History and Archaeology
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SERIES 2: WRITINGS
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Folder
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1 |
Interviews
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Temples and Elephants Carl Bock London
1984
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Situation de l'Indo-Chine (1897-1901) Paul Dommer
1902
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East of Siam Harry A. Franck
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Un voyage a Laos E. Lefevre
1898
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Surveying and exploring in Siam James McCarthy
1900
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History of Laos Maha Sila Viravong
1964
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11-14 |
The Irony of American History, Chapter 1
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15 |
The Irony of American History, Chapter 2
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The Irony of American History, Chapter 3
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17-18 |
The Irony of American History, Chapter 4
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The Irony of American History, Chapter 5
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20-21 |
The Irony of American History, Chapter 6
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Series 3: NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS AND PRESS RELEASES
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Newspaper clippings and press releases
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Box
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Transcripts and drafts of various books
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