Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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US Media Coverage: Vietnam War 1 US Media Coverage: Vietnam War 1
Call Number: CE 561Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About Vietnamese led demonstrations in Saigon against French colonialism. Also about US military aid for the French military and the situation in Cambodia. Additionally discusses right-wing Vietnamese political parties and their influence by Nazi Germany and fascist political parties from Japan.
Issues in Cambodia: FRENCH Issues in Cambodia: FRENCH
Call Number: CE 605Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Issues in Cambodia: Recording in FRENCH
Short excerpt: Cambodia Short excerpt: Cambodia
Call Number: CE 606Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Short excerpt: Cambodia
Suong Chem: National United Front in Cambodia Suong Chem: National United Front in Cambodia
Call Number: CE 607Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Excerpts of interview with Suong Chem, member of the National United Front of Cambodia. Chem shows a map of liberated territories in Cambodia's country side which were once under control by the Lon Nol regime.
Suong Chem: Economic Investments in Cambodia Suong Chem: Economic Investments in Cambodia
Call Number: CE 610Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion of foreign economic investments in Cambodia, particularly financial investments made by the US to the Lon Nol regime.
Bloodbaths In Cambodia Bloodbaths In Cambodia
Call Number: CE 612Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Colin Edwards addresses a journalist who claims that rebel victories in Cambodia are causing bloodbaths in the country. Discussion of the term bloodbath and how the US uses the term loosely but disguises their own involvement in bloodbaths through propaganda.
The Oil Companies & Indochina: Thirty Year Oil Leases Mean Thirty Years War The Oil Companies & Indochina: Thirty Year Oil Leases Mean Thirty Years War
Format: FlyerCollection: Vietnam
Flyer about big oil companies investment in the Vietnam War