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World in Uncertain Times: 1950 -- Present

Limits of Power: Turmoil at Home & Abroad, 1965-1972:

Vietnam: sacrifice and turmoil

The Vietnam War, on private/commercial eHistory.com site, with links to online papers and essays, maps, videos, and other information:

http://www.ehistory.com/vietnam/index.cfm

“Vietnam War: 1955-75: Important Terms, People and Events” on SparkNotes.com commercial website, includes highlights about the war and definitions of U.S. foreign policy terms “domino theory” and “containment”:

http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/vietnamwar/terms.html

Eisenhower -- Brief description of his foreign policies, with links, on PBS’ American Experience: “The Presidents” companion website:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/nf/record/eisen/eisenfp.html

Eisenhower—on “American Presidents” companion website to PBS series—scroll down to “Aggressive Foreign Policies” near bottom of webpage:

http://www.americanpresident.org/kotrain/courses/DE/DE_In_Brief.htm

Student and Other Protests:

Chicago Seven trial – click on this topic in U. Missouri-Kansas City Law School professor Doug Linder’s “Famous Trials” webpages. Detailed description, excerpts and information about the 1969-70 trial of anti-war protesters in connection with protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html

President Johnson’s Speech on his Decision not to Seek Re-election in March, 1968:

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/680331.asp

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford U. – click on “About King” and “biography”:

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/

“Recalling the Vietnam War”—In-depth comments of noted individuals within the government, the press, and anti-war movements, on the U. California, Berkeley, Institute of International Studies webpages:

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/research/vietnam.html

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Syracuse, NY

December, 2002