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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/13/2021
Biden Can Redeem His Mistake
by George Packer
Writer George Packer argues that withdrawing from Afghanistan repeats a mistake of the Vietnam era: abandoning groups who took the grave risk of allying with the United States.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/10/2021
Marshall D. Sahlins, Groundbreaking Anthropologist, Dies at 90
Marshal Sahlins was an innovator in the practice of campus "teach-ins," developed as a way for he and colleagues to protest the war in Vietnam without disengaging from contact with their students.
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SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
3/30/2021
Will Afghanistan make Biden's Presidency Turn Out like Truman's or LBJ's?
by Joe Cirincione
"Joe Biden can be a great president. But not if he is so afraid of attacks from the right that he repeats LBJ’s blunder and stumbles into a war we cannot win and never need fight."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
2/11/2021
Beyond Donald Trump: When Poisons Curdle
by Andrew Bacevich
The writer regrets not absorbing the message of MLK's prophetic "Beyond Vietnam" sermon when it was delivered in 1967. But the years since have shown he wasn't alone, and the nation's failure to reflect on the interconnection of racism, materialism and militarism accounts for the dire state of affairs reflected in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/3/2021
Rennie Davis, ‘Chicago Seven’ Antiwar Activist, Dies at 80
Mr. Davis was most famous as an organizer of the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago which led to his trial for conspiracy and inciting riot.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/16/2021
Alan Canfora, Who Carried Wounds From Kent State, Dies at 71
After being wounded by National Guard fire at Kent State, Canfora worked tirelessly to ensure that the violence would not be erased from the university's or the nation's history.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/7/2021
Now It Can Be Told: How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers
Award-winning journalist Neil Sheehan told an interviewer the story of how he got the Pentagon Papers, on the condition that the story could not be published while he was alive. His passing this week opens up new knowledge in the history of press freedom and the Vietnam war.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/7/2021
Neil Sheehan, Reporter Who Obtained the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 84
Neil Sheehan's earned skepticism of the rightness of the American mission in Vietnam made him the reporter to whom Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his volume "A Bright Shining Lie" about the war.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
12/22/2020
Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq: The Lessons of Two Failed Wars
by Andrew Bacevich
Although the prospects for quickly turning around the ship seem dim, this has been an election year ending in zero, which has often signaled a turning point. The question is, in which direction.
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12/13/2020
A Narrow Definition of "Winner" Shouldn't Hide McGovern's Moral Clarity
by Mike McQuillan
A former senate aide and campaign volunteer saw George McGovern's moral clarity and decency up close, and says the nation is worse off for branding him a loser after the 1972 election.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
12/5/2020
Performance Anxiety: How Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines Shaped Soldiers’ (Mis)Understandings of the Vietnam War (Review)
by Nicholas Utzig
A consideration of Gregory Daddis's book "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines."
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SOURCE: WBUR
11/11/2020
New Memoir Tells Tale Of 1967 Beer Run To Vietnam
John "Chick" Donohue was in a bar in Inwood in upper Manhattan in 1967 when the bartender suggested the neighborhood's contingent of troops in Vietnam would appreciate a beer. He made the delivery. His new book explains how.
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SOURCE: The Nation
11/3/2020
Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson
by Charlotte Rosen
Aaron Sorkin's Chicago 7 film strips away the radical, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist politics of the 1960s New Left to make the defendants heroic defenders of liberal democratic politics.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
10/29/2020
The History of Hmong Americans Explains why they Might Decide the Election
by Melissa Borja
Hmong refugees were resettled in the United States after participating as US allies in military operations in Laos. American policy of dispersing refugees in small groups away from coastal areas created Hmong communities in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota.
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
10/19/2020
After Chicago 7 Trial, Mrs. Jean Fritz Helped Change the Course of History
A look back at the Chicago 7 conspiracy trial through the eyes of one of the jurors reveals an America that was less completely polarized than one might think.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/13/2020
Edward C. Meyer, General who Revamped Post-Vietnam ‘Hollow Army,’ Dies at 91
by 10/13/2020
During a congressional hearing in 1980, Gen. Meyer used the memorable phrase “a hollow Army” to describe how the military branch had been beset by staffing problems, outdated equipment and general malaise after the Vietnam War.
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9/13/2020
Twenty-One Days Later: Ventura County's Participation in the Chicano Moratorium of 1970
by Frank P. Barajas
Police responded brutally to the 1970 Chicano Moratorium protest march in East Los Angeles, including killing journalist Ruben Salazar. This news spread to smaller Chicano communities in the state and beyond and sparked a politicial movement for justice that echoes today.
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SOURCE: Herald-Mail Media (From Los Angeles Times)
8/31/2020
50 Years Later, Mexican American Vietnam War Vets Recall Protests That Conflict Inspired
At the 50th anniversary of the 2nd Chicano Moratorium protest against the Vietnam War, Mexican American veterans and historians reflect on how the war and the protests affected Mexican Americans.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
8/19/2020
The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea
In 1973, the House Armed Services Committe, led by a segregationist, believed that "reforms were the problem" in the wake of racial strife, notes Navy historian John Sherwood.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/6/2020
Nixon Did Call the Military on Protesters. He Just Covered It Up.
by Lawrence Roberts
The antiwar movement had already helped turn public opinion against Mr. Nixon’s conduct of the war. He was determined to deny activists a victory that could cause further political damage.
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