Information about Antiwar Readings for 25 October, 1999

For this topic, begin with the Herring pages noted on the Week 9 ACS course page. Two selections from O'Nan also appear there. From the following library reserves, read a total of at least 50 pages from two sources (not 50 from each of two sources). Come to class on Monday prepared to participate in a discussion of web documents and your readings from Herring, O'Nan, and your selections from the options below. Library copies of these books will be on reserve as well as one photo copy of each.

Charles DeBenedetti and Charles Chatfield, An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam War (1990), "Persisting in Withdrawal," pp. 277-311 and notes, pp. 452-457.

Richard R. Moser, New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent during the Vietnam Era (1996), "The Veterans' Antiwar Movement," pp. 102-129, and notes, pp. 193-197.

Richard Stacewicz, Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1997), "The Winter Soldier Hearings," and "Dewey Canyon III," pp. 233-251, and notes, pp. 441-444; and also"The Attack on the Winter Soldiers," pp. 314-345, and notes, pp. 446-448.

Andrew E. Hunt, The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1999), "The War Itself Is a War Crime," "Prelude to an Incursion," and "The Turning," pp.55-119, and notes, pp. 213-227.

Michael Bibby, ed., Hearts and Minds: Bodies, Poetry, and Resistance in The Vietnam Era (1996), "'Fragging the Chain(s) of Command': Mutilation and GI Resistance Poetry," pp. 122-172, and notes, pp. 209-219.

 

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