Tag: Vietnam War
Martin Luther King Jr.’s moral stance against the Vietnam War offers...
Hajar Yazdiha, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Since the onset of Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s moral stance against the Vietnam War offers...
Hajar Yazdiha, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Since the onset of Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza...
‘Courage is contagious’: Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to release the Pentagon Papers...
Christian Appy, UMass Amherst
In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked...
‘What’s Going On’ at 50 – Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic is...
Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona
Motown wasn’t really known for its politically conscious music. Then came “What’s Going On.”
MLK’s vision matters today for the 43 million Americans living in...
Joshua F.J. Inwood, Pennsylvania State University
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, while fighting for a 10-cent wage increase...
What is moral injury in veterans?
Holly Arrow, University of Oregon and William M. Schumacher, University of Oregon
On Nov. 11 each year, Americans honor military veterans who have transitioned to...
Comics captured America’s growing ambivalence about the Vietnam War
Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut
In America’s imagination, the Vietnam War is not so much celebrated as it is assiduously contemplated. This inward-looking approach is...
How the Pentagon tried to cure America of its ‘Vietnam syndrome’
Paul Joseph, Tufts University
In August 1965, Morley Safer, a reporter for “CBS News,” accompanied a unit of U.S. marines on a search-and-destroy mission to...