“Time to Break the Silence on Palestine”
Opinion Time to Break the Silence on Palestine Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when […]
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Recent articles of interest – Jan. 25, 2019
“The Shutdown Is Trump’s Ultimate Attack on American Intellectual Life” By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Washington Post, posted January 24. The author teaches history at the University […]
Articles of interest, Jan. 2, 2019
“The Collapse of the ‘War on Terror’ Paradigm” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted January 2, 2019. The author teaches Middle East history at […]
Articles of interest – Dec. 20, 2018
“A New Middle East: Winners and Losers from Trump’s Abrupt Syria Withdrawal” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted December 20. The author teaches Middle Eastern history […]
New Peace History website essay
U.S. Participation in World War I The United States today appears to be on a permanent war footing. U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan and Iraq […]
Student Voting: A National Guide
This is a practical manual for organizing a campus coalition to register and turn-out students to vote, based on what we have done at Franklin […]
Conference on the My Lai Massacre in NYC
On March 16th, 1968 , over 500 Vietnamese men, women and children were killed in the hamlets of My Lai-4 and My Khe in Quang […]
My Lai 50th Anniversary – events, appeals, history, and legislation
The fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre offers an opportunity to reflect on the Vietnam War and learn from it. The Vietnam Peace Commemoration […]
Exceptional Victims
The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today. Christian […]
“The Vietnam War” by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick: An interview with Christian G. Appy and Carolyn Eisenberg
Christian G. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Carolyn Eisenberg is a professor of history at Hofstra University. They […]