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The Vietnam War on Campus Other Voices, More Distant Drums
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Marc Jason Gilbert, ed.
ISBN: 0-275-96909-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96909-7
280 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2000
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Previous analyses of the student antiwar movement during the Vietnam War have focussed almost exclusively on a few radical student leaders and upon events that occurred at a few elite East Coast universities. This volume breaks new ground in the treatment it affords critiques of the war offered by conservative students, in its assessment of antiwar sentiment among Midwestern and Southern college students, and in its invesitgation of antiwar protests in American high schools. It also provides fresh insight through a discussion of the ways in which American films depicted the student movements and an examination of the role of women and religion in the campus wars of the Sixties and Seventies.

The campus dimensions of the antiwar movement were more broad-based and more diverse in membership, roots, and strategy than is often assumed. Each essay in this collection strives not only to present a fair-minded picture of the impact of the Vietnam War on campus, but also to offer balanced reflections on its significance for today's body politic. Contributing authors conclude leading scholars on the war's impact on American society and two artists closely associated with that conflict, Vietnam veteran, writer, and poet W.D. Ehrhart and Country Joe McDonald, author of the antiwar era anthem, I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction
    Pro-War and Anti-Draft: Young Americans for Freedom and the War in Vietnam by John Andrew
    No War, No Welfare, and No Damn Taxation: The Student Libertarian Movement, 1966-1972 by Jonathan Schoenwald
    The Refiner's Fire: Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s by Barbara L. Tischler
    Student Revolt Movies of the Vietnam Era by Tony Williams
    American Schism: Catholic Activists, Intellectuals, and Students Confront the Vietnam War by Kenneth J. Heineman
    Moo U and the Cambodia Invasion: Nonviolent Anti-Vietnam War Protest at Iowa State University by Clyde Brown and Gayle K. Pluta Brown
    Fighting the War in the Heart of the Country: Anti-war Protest at Ball State by Anthony O. Edmonds and Joel Shrock
    "Hell No-We Won't Go, Y'all," Southern Student Opposition to the Vietnam war by Stephen H. Wheeler
    Healing from the War: Building the Berkeley Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Joe McDonald
    Lock and Load High: The Vietnam War Comes to a Los Angeles Secondary School by Marc Jason Gilbert
    When the Bell Rings: Public High Schools, the Courts, and Anti-War Dissent by Chuck Howlett
    Not Born to Run: The Silent Boomer Classes of 66 by Paul Lyons
    Aftermath: Pennridge High School and the Vietnam War by W.D. Ehrhart
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: MARC JASON GILBERT is Professor of History at North Georgia College and State University and a University System of Georgia Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning./e He is the editor of The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources (Greenwood, 1991) and coeditor, with William Head, of The Tet Offensive (Praeger, 1996).
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