The Vietnam War began an incredibly divisive moment in the United States, as many Americans questioned whether the war was necessary and morally legitimate. In this instructive book, readers will examine important topics involving the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement through project-based learning. Step-by-step exit projects are provided as models for students to use, and they inspire new creative, investigative projects as well. Colorful photographs and informative sidebars further illustrate the importance of this historical movement on our politics today.
The U.S. Constitution is one of the most important documents in the world, if not the most important document in the history of the United States. It is the U.S. Constitution that spells out citizens' rights, and there is still much debate today about its interpretation in the legislative process of the United States. In this edifying resource, readers will examine the U.S. Constitution and the rights it affords American citizens through project-based learning. Students can model their own exit projects on and be inspired by those included in this book, which examine the document using historical, political, legal, and anthropological lenses.
The ancient civilizations that form the basis of our modern world first sprang up in the Eastern Hemisphere, in an area of the Middle East known as the Cradle of Civilization. Through project-based learning, this insightful book examines the history of the Eastern Hemisphere and how it was shaped by trading, wars, and colonialism. Readers can model their own exit projects on those provided in the book, and colorful photographs and special sidebars enhance their understanding of this important region of the globe.
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of explosive artistic growth, led by African Americans in the 1920s when they faced legalized racism and segregation. In this informative book, readers will be introduced to project-based learning as well as exit projects involving the Harlem Renaissance, its political and cultural ramifications, and some of its important figures. Enlightening sidebars and vivid photographs make this important period accessible. The projects that students can model their own work on will inspire research and investigation.
The Western Hemisphere, spanning from the Americas to Eastern Europe, consists of many cultures, some of which have attempted to claim dominance at various points in history. The history of the Western Hemisphere is, thus, also a history of colonialism and imperialism. In this book, readers will examine the history of these cultures and their relationships from the dawn of modern history until today through project-based learning. Students can model their own exit projects on those provided, while vivid photographs and revealing sidebars enhance their learning of the material.
The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial wars in American history, as many Americans opposed the United States' involvement in the war. The draft, which forced certain young men to fight in the war, even if they didn't want to, was particularly controversial. At the time, women were not allowed to fight in the military, but many worked directly in the conflict as nurses and administrators. Through fascinating and poignant interviews, this book tells the stories of six courageous women who served in the Vietnam War as they narrate their fascinating and sometimes difficult memories of the conflict.
Again and again in the nation’s history, presidents of the United States have faced the dramatic challenge of domestic insurrection and sought ways to reconcile with the rebels afterward. This book is the first comprehensive study of how presidential mass pardons have helped put such conflicts to rest. Graham G. Dodds examines when and why presidents have issued mass pardons and amnesties to deal with domestic rebellion and attempt to reunite the country. He analyzes how presidents have used both deeds and words—proclamations of mass pardons and persuasive rhetoric—in order to foster political reconciliation. The book features in-depth case studies of the key instances of mass pardons in U.S. history, beginning with George Washington’s and John Adams’s pardoning participants in armed insurrections in Pennsylvania in the 1790s. In the nineteenth century, James Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison, and Grover Cleveland issued pardons to Mormon insurrectionists and polygamists, and Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederates both during and after the Civil War. Most recently, Dodds considers Gerald Ford’s clemency and Jimmy Carter’s amnesty of Vietnam War resisters. Beyond exploring these events, Mass Pardons in America offers new perspectives on the president’s pardon power, unilateral presidential actions, and presidential rhetoric more broadly. Its implications span fields including political history, presidential studies, and legal history.
This volume brings together Ron Eyerman’s most important interventions in the field of cultural trauma and offers an accessible entry point into the origins and development of this theory and a framework of an analysis that has now achieved the status of a research paradigm. This collection of disparate essays, published between 2004 and 2018, coheres around an original introduction that not only provides a historical overview of cultural trauma, but is also an important theoretical contribution to cultural trauma and collective identity in its own right. The Afterword from esteemed sociologist Eric Woods connects the essays and explores their significance for the broader fields of sociology, behavioral science, and trauma studies..
Staughton Lynd was one of the principal intellectuals and activists making the radical argument that the U.S. intervention in Vietnam was illegal under domestic and international law. Lynd was uncompromising in his courageous stance that the U.S. should immediately withdraw from Vietnam, and that soldiers and draftees should refuse to participate in the war based on their individual conscience and the Nuremberg Principles of 1950. Lynd did not just write about opposing the war, he was one of the chief proponents of direct action and civil disobedience to confront the war machine at the university, in the halls of power, and in everyday life through refusing to pay income taxes. As Staughton Lynd’s speeches, writings, statements and interviews demonstrate, there were coherent and persuasive arguments against the war in Vietnam based on U.S. and international law, precedents from American history, and moral and ethical considerations based on conscientious objection to war and an internationalism embraced by American radicals which said: “My country is the world, my countrymen are all mankind.”
