Curated OER
Individual Rights -- Freedom of Speech at School
Students examine their individual rights at a public school. In groups, they identify the most common ways of expressing themselves and why they should limit their speech in public. They compare and contrast two cases in which they...
Curated OER
VH1 Presents the 1980s - Lesson 4
Students discuss development of music videos. They identify elements that make a successful music video. Groups are assigned to do a research project on the development of music videos.
University of Michigan
Bentley Historical Library: A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at Michigan
Information and analysis on the student-led resistance to the war in Vietnam at the University of Michigan.
Other
Vietnam War Bibliography
A great resource for print resources on the Vietnam War. The Table of Contents provide a good organizational tool of bibliographic information for anyone trying to understand the conflict.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Political Storms 1968 1980: Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
E-book page on the final era of the Vietnam War in which the Pentagon Papers were released, protest and conflict over the war increased at home and Nixon's Vietnamization began. Questions for discussion, glossary and link to primary...
University of Pennsylvania
Draft Resistance in the Vietnam Era
Analysis of number of men who resisted the draft during the Vietnam War, the types of evasion, and the reasons they gave for resisting.
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Who Won? Student Protest and Politics of Campus Dissent
Explore American college students' political views, convictions, and concerns in the midst of the war in Vietnam through several articles, images, further reading, and writing assignments. Student protests on campuses across the nation...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Vietnam War [Pdf]
A presentation covering the history of the Vietnam War beginning with the war for independence from France when it was a French colony. Covers the Geneva Accord and the war between the North and the South and how America became involved....
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Vietnam War Protests
A timeline highlighting the protests between 1964 and 1972 against the Vietnam War, many involving students at universities.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The War in Vietnam
Outlines the war in Vietnam during the Johnson administration, touching on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and protest of the American public.
Read Works
Read Works: Eyewitness to History: Grandma Was a Protester
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares information about a young girl's grandmother who protested the Vietnam War. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Maps: Causes of the Vietnam War
This essay from The Oxford Companion to American Military History goes into the causes of the Vietnam War and shows how the United States became embroiled incrementally from the 1950s up to 1965. An interesting section explains how the...
Digital History
Digital History: Vietnamization [Pdf]
Richard Nixon claimed to have a secret plan to end the Vietnam War when he was campaigning for president in 1968. See what that secret plan was and read about how it extended the war by another four years and galvanized anti-war...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 21: Empathy and the Vietnam War
One of the most important aspects of the war in Vietnam was the draft. Every male upon reaching the age of eighteen was required to register with the selective service. Men found themselves willingly enlisting, trying for deferments as...
University of Washington
University of Washington Libraries: Vietnam War Era Ephemera
Access a database of leaflets, illustrations, posters, and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the 1960s and 1970s. Items in the collection reflect the social and political activities of the...
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Patriotism
A comprehensive learning module on the nature of patriotism that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include why people...
Other
Culture of Peace: The American Peace Movements
Dr. David Adams, retired UNESCO director and professor, examines the anti-Vietnam War movement, in this full-text online publication.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Sixties Project: A Veteran Speaks Against the War
This site by the Sixties Project gives the text of the speech given by Bob Muller, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, to a meeting of the Student Assembly of Columbia University on July 23, 1971.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Sixties Project: Winter Soldier Investigation
This site from the Sixties Project gives extensive testimonies from honorably discharged veterans detailing misconduct of U.S. military forces in Vietnam. Read into the Congressional Record by Sen. Mark Hatfield.
OpenStax
Open Stax: u.s. History: 29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
Page form U.S. History e-book focusses on the culture of the 1960s and the rise of protest organizations challenging the status quo during that decade. Site contains questions for review, critical thinking, and glossary.
Digital History
Digital History: The War at Home
By the middle of the 1960s, American public opinion was beginning to favor US withdrawal from the Vietnam War. After the Tet Offensive in 1968 and Nixon's secret bombings of Cambodia, the majority of Americans were calling for complete...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: We Shall Overcome Webisode 15
Webisode 15 - We Shall Overcome. The history of the United States is presented in a series of webisodes, within each are a number of segments.Included are links to lesson plans, teacher guides, resources, activities, and tools.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: 1968: A Time of Change
Explore how the events and cultural and political changes that occurred in 1968 came to represent the upheaval and dramatic changes in American life during the 1960s.
Smithsonian Institution
Nat'l Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture: Bring the Troops Home
Annotated example of a poster produced by anti-Vietnam War activists serves as a useful resource for analyzing poster art as a form of protest.