protest movements

Studies how the protests and support of students, African-Americans, women, and workers affected America's participation in the Vietnam War.

Provides a detailed description of the 1968 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois, and discusses the events of each day, along with a week prior, and the aftermath.

Examines the draft resistance movement in Boston during the Vietnam War, explaining its ideals, and discussing its effects on participants and the United States government.

Explores why some people believe that the 2003 war against Iraq was unjust and illegal, and how they expressed their beliefs through marches, demonstrations, vigils, and other acts of protest.

A collection of first-person accounts in which twenty-six Bosnian women share how they are trying to rebuild their society following years of devastating warfare.

The movement against the Vietnam War brings together two Minnesota teenagers: Maud, whose activist sister has died in the bombing of a physics lab, and Jeff, whose Marine brother has been sent away to fight.

Presents an account of Vietnam veterans who returned to the U.S. to become involved in the anti-war movement, focusing on the leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against Against the War and their struggles with the Veteran's Administration, the government, the medical community, and their own physical and psychological problems.

An honest and touching work of non-fiction dealing with an Iowa family's loss of their son due to a "non-battle" cause and their search for the true circumstances surrounding his death.

Presents parallel accounts of what was happening on October 17-18, 1967 in Vietnam with the Black Lion battalion of the First Infantry Division, on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin where students were protesting against Dow Chemical, and in Washington D.C. where pressures were mounting to end the war.