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Peace in the mountains : northern Appalachian students protest the Vietnam War / Thomas Weyant.
Van Pelt Library LA230.5.A6 W48 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weyant, Thomas, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Legacies of war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
- University of Pittsburgh.
- West Virginia University.
- Ohio University.
- Student movements--Appalachian Region--History--20th century.
- Student movements.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Appalachian Region.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Ohio University--History.
- West Virginia University--History.
- University of Pittsburgh--History.
- United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps--History.
- United States.
- Protest movements.
- History.
- Appalachian Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This book explores student war protests at three northern Appalachian universities during the Vietnam War era: Ohio University, the University of West Virginia, and the University of Pittsburgh. All three universities had robust ROTC programs, and Thomas Weyant looks at these programs, its students, and the war protests surrounding them. He discusses how ROTC student dissent and other student protests-far removed from the widely known atrocities at Kent State and the nationally covered student protests at American universities in the DC area-illuminates our understanding of the Vietnam War and its lingering effects on American society"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Background: Cold War Universities in Northern Appalachia by the Early 1960s
- pt. 1 1964
- 1967
- ch. 2 Claiming Control on Campus: Paternalism and Political Participation
- ch. 3 Building Empowered Communities: Civil Rights and Poverty Activism
- ch. 4 Debating the Vietnam War: Contending Visions of Patriotism and Dissent
- pt. 2 1967
- 1968
- ch. 5 Campus Citizenship: Responsibilities, Rights, and ROTC
- ch. 6 Challenging the War: Antiwar Activism and Draft Resistance on Campus
- pt. 3 1969
- 1972
- ch. 7 We the People: Campus Issues and Civil Rights
- ch. 8 The War Comes Home: Protest, Demonstration, and Activism from the Moratorium to Kent State.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Weyant, Thomas, 1979- Peace in the mountains.
- ISBN:
- 9781621905714
- 1621905713
- OCLC:
- 1128448144
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