The Myth of the Spat-Upon Soldier
Growing up in the late twentieth-century United States I, like many others, was taught that protestors against the Vietnam war spat on American soldiers when they returned home from the war. When I got older and studied history more thoroughly I discovered that I had been taught a myth. That spitting did not happen.
Sixties Activists Tell Their Stories
Discussion of Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s by Jeff Kisseloff.
MLK and the History of the Civil Rights Movement
Review of The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson.
Patriotism and the history of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Review of the book Eyes on the Prize by Juan Williams