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Future of Freedom Foundation: Cindy Sheehan's War

For Students 9th - 10th
A review of Cindy Sheehan's Not One More Mother's Child, this article looks at Sheehan's personal life and her inspiration for writing her book. The reviewer (Sam Bostaph) clearly sympathizes with and supports Cindy Sheehan's cause as an...
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History of American Wars

History of American Wars: Vietnam War Protests

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline highlighting the protests between 1964 and 1972 against the Vietnam War, many involving students at universities.
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Democracy Now: Cindy Sheehan Sets Up Antiwar Protest

For Students 9th - 10th
In an interview with Democracy Now, Cindy Sheehan explains why she has set up camp in Washington, D.C. to protest the War in Iraq and to call on President Obama to end the War. (March 19, 2010)
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Digital History

Digital History: Vietnamization [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Richard Nixon claimed to have a secret plan to end the Vietnam War when he was campaigning for president in 1968. See what that secret plan was and read about how it extended the war by another four years and galvanized anti-war...
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University of Michigan

Bentley Historical Library: A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at Michigan

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and analysis on the student-led resistance to the war in Vietnam at the University of Michigan.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Sixties Project: A Veteran Speaks Against the War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site by the Sixties Project gives the text of the speech given by Bob Muller, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, to a meeting of the Student Assembly of Columbia University on July 23, 1971.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Vietnam War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A presentation covering the history of the Vietnam War beginning with the war for independence from France when it was a French colony. Covers the Geneva Accord and the war between the North and the South and how America became involved....
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Counterculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Section overview on the Counterculture and anti-war movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and its impact on a new social and political order.
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C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Patriotism

For Teachers 8th
A comprehensive learning module on the nature of patriotism that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include why people...
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Digital History

Digital History: The War at Home

For Students 9th - 10th
By the middle of the 1960s, American public opinion was beginning to favor US withdrawal from the Vietnam War. After the Tet Offensive in 1968 and Nixon's secret bombings of Cambodia, the majority of Americans were calling for complete...
Article
CNN

Cnn: Soldier's Mom Digs in Near Bush Ranch 8/07/05

For Students 9th - 10th
Beginning on August 6th, 2005, Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq travelled to Crawford, Texas to get a meeting with President Bush. She wants to know why her son died and wants an honest answer as to why America is at...
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Culture of Peace: The American Peace Movements

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. David Adams, retired UNESCO director and professor, examines the anti-Vietnam War movement, in this full-text online publication.
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Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
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Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Chicago: Law and Disorder

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictorial study of the violent week that took place during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and its aftermath.
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Smithsonian Institution

Nat'l Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture: Bring the Troops Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Annotated example of a poster produced by anti-Vietnam War activists serves as a useful resource for analyzing poster art as a form of protest.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Tet Offensive [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War and the resulting escalation of American troops committed to the war. This led to increased American protest against the war, and President Johnson's decision not to run for re-election....
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

For Students 9th - 10th
A monumental tube of lipstick sprouting from a military vehicle appeared, uninvited, on the campus of Yale University amidst the 1969 student protests against the Vietnam War. Claes Oldenburg made this sculpture and it served as a stage...
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CNN

Cnn: All Politics: Brief History of Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses mainly on facts and is a little less biased than other reports on the 1968 Democratic Convention and riots in Chicago. Discusses some of the causes and the aftermath of the event.
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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Conventions Past: 1968: Antiwar Rioters Engulf the Democrats

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR looks back at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, known for the antiwar student demonstrations staged there and the violence they engendered, not just election-year politics.
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PBS

Pbs: American Roots Music

For Students 9th - 10th
If teaching a unit about the history of popular music in America, this PBS web site supporting their four-part TV broadcast of a few years ago would make a great resource. Includes lesson plans and oral histories too.
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University of Pennsylvania

Draft Resistance in the Vietnam Era

For Students 9th - 10th
Analysis of number of men who resisted the draft during the Vietnam War, the types of evasion, and the reasons they gave for resisting.
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Draft Resistance 1965 1972

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview, maps, and databases of the anti-draft movement.