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On This Day in History... August 28, 1968: Police and Protesters clash at the DNC

Documentary on the Chicago '68 Riots

On This Day in History... August 28, 1968: Police and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention...

Sources and Further Reading:

James E. Campbell, The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote, (Texas A&M University Press, 2000)

Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, (Westport, CT. Praeger, 2004).

Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World, (Random House, Inc., 2005).

Jon Wiener, Tom Hayden, Jules Feiffer, Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight, (New Press, 2006).

1968

Submitted by zondfive on Wed, 2008-09-10 05:30.
I watched as a young man out debated a senator. seeing that i thought to myself, and that Mr. senator is what your public education results in. I am not surprised that the senator recognized that as well and took steps to dilute the education system to what it is today, little more than a trickle of knowledge in a torrent of socialistic babble seasoned with liberal platitudes.

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Submitted by raul g on Wed, 2008-09-10 06:31.
I was only 14, but I sensed the angst about the war in Vietnam, my long hair was sympathy with humanity against the spectre of war and the silence. As a teacher today, I was aghast when a couple of years ago, our florida governor signed into law (reported on this site as well) the idea that history is not a construction- in some ways arguing that revision and interpretation are not needed in teaching it, but reducing it to facts for testing alone. Wow. What a slap in the face! I try to impart critical thinking, the use of primary and secondary sources, to let each student exercise their minds, not merely become "sheep" in what has been termed an "industrial pedagogy". Amen to activism and participation in this democracy!