Remembering Kent State: Anti-Vietnam War Protest and the 1960s

May 4, 1970. The day four students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen at an anti-Vietnam War protest on the Kent State campus. It shocked the nation, and became a symbol of one of America's most turbulent decades.

On the anniversary of Kent State, what can we learn about anti-Vietnam War protest in America and the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s?

The following books and articles are completely free to read in their entirety from May 3, 2002, through May 17, 2002, with a free trial account.

Anti-Vietnam War Protest
  North to Canada: Men and Women Against the Vietnam War
       by James Dickerson
  The Vietnam Antiwar Movement in Perspective
       by George R. Vickers, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
  Seasons of Rebellion: Protest and Radicalism in Recent America
       by Joseph Boskin & Robert A. Rosenstone

The 1960s in America
  The 1960s Cultural Revolution
       by John C. McWilliams
  The Movement and the Sixties
       by Terry H. Anderson
  The Sixties: From Memory to History
       edited by David Farber

 

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