... era civil rights protest, but several of whom were active veterans of the Vietnam War, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, and local Black Power groups. This chapter offers a reconceptualization of Black masculinity as African American men in both Texas...

...This chapter examines the US military’s overseas rest and recreation (R&R) program in Taipei, Taiwan during the Vietnam War. Drawing on Chinese and English-language sources, it argues that R&R was a central component of the “comfort-for-morale-formula” that underpinned the US war effort...

...To internationalize the American military effort in the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson sought a military coalition of third-country forces, which he termed “more flags,” to join the United States and South Vietnam in fighting the Vietnamese communists. The existing SEATO defense structure...

...Richard Nixon’s politics and penchant for vengeance, rising agitation in and about America’s prisons, and conflict over the Vietnam War’s legacy (especially for veterans) fuelled Nixon’s destructive, though unsteady, war on crime and its focus on drugs. The rehabilitative ideal—the belief...

...This chapter addresses the role of military bases and deployments in the coastal South that brought surfing from California and Hawaii to the region. The focus here is on the US Navy and Air Force bases near Pensacola and on the military service of southern surfers in the Vietnam War. Confederacy...

... Bloc. A subchapter presents and analyses the failed attempts at the reform of the organization of the Warsaw Pact in the mid-1960s. The chapter also discusses two important secret Hungarian mediation attempts: between Hanoi and Washington during the Vietnam War in 1965–1966 and between Prague...

...Liberal Democrats argued over the future of the Alliance for Progress. Former Kennedy aides tried to create a Kennedy legacy for the region without any of its complexities and contradictions as US attention turned toward Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Alliance for Progress Brazil Chile...

... upon Sherman's death in 1891. Sherman's March is often mischaracterized as the birth of total war, as though one could draw a line connecting it with World War II and the Vietnam War. It unpacks those notions, first looking at the March in the context of nineteenth-century theories or laws of war...

... and nationalist SNCC. A close-up analysis of Moses’s post-Freedom Summer activities including his time spent in Africa in 1964 and 1965 and participation in the anti-Vietnam War movement, reveals the lessons he drew from these experiences, and how they differed from the responses of (most) SNCC-workers, including...

... discourse as materialized on plantations was subverted by various actors and revisits the historiography of the Vietnam War by adopting the lens of environmental history to show the unexpected consequences of plantation agriculture. Finally, it considers how the post–World War II development of “synthetic...

... that coincided with the Iranian hostage crisis. It looks at the succession of upheavals—including the U.S. military defeat in the Vietnam War, the OPEC oil embargo, and the emergence of new social movements such as feminism that contested the role of the nuclear family in the American culture—that seemed...

...The Vietnam War era saw an increase in the number of men who declared that they were gay in order to avoid the draft. Considering that the Department of Defense viewed homosexuality as a “moral defect,” it was ironic that gay and lesbian soldiers proudly served their country during the conflict...

..., and the incompetent—and the problem of religion and then the Vietnam War. Next, the chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to analyze the discourse and cultural expectations surrounding chaplains and the relationship between warfare and religion during and after the Vietnam War. An overview of the subsequent...

...This chapter focuses on questions about the morality of the Vietnam War and religious practice in wartime encountered by chaplains. Chaplains responded creatively as they worked out practical solutions to wartime dilemmas. At the same time, they, along with the soldiers and officers they served...

... chaplains' individual experiences and reflections about the Vietnam War speak to broader unresolved debates within Vietnam War scholarship, and how chaplaincy offers a site for scholars to study civil–military relations and the church–state relationship in the United States. Afghanistan —religious Army U...

...Chapter One revolves around President Lyndon Johnson in the winter of 1968. He delivers the State of the Union speech and fails to inspire the American people. He weathers criticism from both the Right and Left over the Great Society. He endures a “credibility gap” over the Vietnam War, and the Tet...

... Boomer generation were altering the political landscape. Yet McCarthy – a former professor and poet – was an indifferent campaigner with little appeal to a broader Democratic coalition. Conference of Concerned Democrats Lowenstein Allard McCarthy Eugene Vietnam War Alexander Shana Johnson Lyndon B...

..., including William F. Buckley Jr., as well as several anti-New Deal foundations, students mobilized in organizations like Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and College Republicans. In the context of the Vietnam War and civil rights movements, conservative student foot...

...This chapter situates American higher education in the context of national political debates regarding the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, discusses college student demographics of the 1960s and 1970s, and introduces the ideological contours of the New Left and the New Right, including...

...This chapter explores conservative defenses of the Vietnam War and campus Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programs. It details student debates over the Vietnam War draft between those representing Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), in which YAF...