protest movements

In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. The subsequent publication of that paper, in which he argued that the conflict was misplaced and unwinnable, would put him on the fast track to becoming the president of the protest movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

A memoir in which the author discusses his relationship with his father, a high-ranking general during the Vietnam War, and tells about his entry into the priesthood where he became part of the radical faction protesting the war, and his decision to leave the church in order to marry and have a family.

Using edited transcripts of testimony, recreates the trial of John Tinker and two other students who were suspended from school for protesting the Vietnam War, and invites the reader to act as judge and jury.

"Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution." An interpretive history of the antiwar movement in the United States throughout the Vietnam era.

A history of peace movements in the United States, including discussions of the principles behind nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.

Describes the practices of the FBI counterintelligence group COINTELPRO against leftist advocates, proponents of the antiwar movement, hippies, and others that were deemed subversive by the organization in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The bombing of the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center at Madison in August, 1970.

An illustrated biography of civil rights leader Wesley Wallace Law, who helped to end segregation in Savannah, Georgia during the 1960s.

Presents an overview of the former Yugoslavia, past and present, discussing the history of internal strife from 1839 to 1980, the role of the media and army through two wars, and Serbian and Croatian opposition to ultranationalism.