{"id":6012,"date":"2025-05-16T21:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:11:00","slug":"remembering-one-mans-war-in-vietnam-an-exhibit-commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/news\/remembering-one-mans-war-in-vietnam-an-exhibit-commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering One Man\u2019s War in Vietnam: An Exhibit Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the End of the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>May 12, 2025 &#8211; May 30, 2025<\/h2>\n<h2>Allen Library North Lobby<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-half wp-image-6014 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-375x493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-375x493.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-779x1024.jpg 779w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-768x1010.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-1168x1536.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-1558x2048.jpg 1558w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-750x986.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-1140x1499.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Bob-Jones-Collection-scaled.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>In 2013 the UW Libraries purchased an extensive collection of books, photographs, office files and ephemera curated by a civilian official in the US Embassy in Saigon, Robert Jones III. Reportedly the longest-serving US official in Vietnam, Jones was an avid book collector who had fallen in love with Vietnam, spoke its language fluently, and dedicated his life to promoting understanding of the country. Although Jones\u2019 official papers reflect the centrality of his contributions to the US war effort, the importance of his collection lies not so much in what it tells us about that effort, but in the extensive range of historical, cultural and literary texts that provide a glimpse into the social milieu of war-time Saigon. The collection tells us what books were circulating freely on the streets of Saigon, and what literary and historical texts influenced society at this critical time of war and dislocation in Vietnam. The historical materials that Jones collected from the French colonial period in Vietnam, and the contemporary publications he continued to collect from the diasporic communities in the US after his return, show the continuities of these cultural worlds across time and geography. In 2024 MLIS student Cari Coe used materials from the collection for a project titled <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/e02ee06a5d10482786da9db3fd6f7481\">Bringing Southeast Asian archives to life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/The-Collection-in-Scholarship-scaled.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, 2025 &#8211; May 30, 2025 Allen Library North Lobby In 2013 the UW Libraries purchased an extensive collection of books, photographs, office files and ephemera curated by a civilian official in the US Embassy in Saigon, Robert Jones III. Reportedly the longest-serving US official in Vietnam, Jones was an avid book collector who<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/news\/remembering-one-mans-war-in-vietnam-an-exhibit-commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":561,"featured_media":6016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remembering One Man\u2019s War in Vietnam: An Exhibit Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the End of the War - Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/news\/remembering-one-mans-war-in-vietnam-an-exhibit-commemorating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-war\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering One Man\u2019s War in Vietnam: An Exhibit Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the End of the War - Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"May 12, 2025 &#8211; May 30, 2025 Allen Library North Lobby In 2013 the UW Libraries purchased an extensive collection of books, photographs, office files and ephemera curated by a civilian official in the US Embassy in Saigon, Robert Jones III. 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