# overview
The 1960s.  Vietnam War.  Affirmative Action.  U.S. war in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Counterculture.

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

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University of Missouri - (Columbia, Missouri, United States)

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University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)

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Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs Faculty Board

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Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History

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Fulbright Palacky University Distinguished Chair

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Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context

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Richard Nixon and the rise of affirmative action: The pursuit of racial equity in an era of limits

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The 1968 Election and the Demise of Liberalism

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Revisionism: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Origins of the Iraq War

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American Popular Music and the War in Vietnam

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The Strange Career of Affirmative Action

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1968: THE AMERICAN AND SCANDINAVIAN EXPERIENCES

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Dangerous grounds: antiwar coffeehouses and military dissent in the Vietnam Era

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Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity

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The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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How the Fifties Became the Sixties: A Response

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THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL - THE UNITED-STATES AND THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

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The Pursuit of Fairness A History of Affirmative Action

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1968: The End and the Beginning in the United States and Western Europe

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The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America

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The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War 1944-1947

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Texas A&M University; History; 4236 TAMU

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Bobal, Rian (2011-08). Stand Up and Be Counted: Race, Religion, and the Eisenhower Administration's Encounter with Arab Nationalism. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Paungpetch, Sudina 1977- (2011-05). Domino by Design: Thai-U.S. Relations during the Vietnam War. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Hilton, Brian Paul (2012-12). "A Tolerable State of Order": The United States, Taiwan, and the Recognition of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Bounds, Brittany (2015-08). The Right Response: The Reaction of the Silent Majority to the Social Movements of the Sixties. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Blanton, Troy Franklin (2006-12). Prudence in Panama: George H.W. Bush, Noriega, and economic aid, May 1989-May 1990. Master's Thesis.

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Bach, Damon (2013-12). The Rise and Fall of the American Counterculture: A History of the Hippies and Other Cultural Dissidents. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Blomstedt, Larry Wayne (2008-05). Truman, Congress and the struggle for war and peace in Korea. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Heth, Jennifer Dawn (2014-12). Imagining TR:  Commemorations and Representations of Theodore Roosevelt in Twentieth-Century America. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Ward, Brandon M. (2009-08). The War in the Desert: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement in the American Southwest. Master's Thesis.

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Bach, Damon R. (2008-08). The Prison Was the American Dream: Youth Revolt and the Origins of the Counterculture. Master's Thesis.

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Irwin, Matthew Kirk (2014-12). Sounding Off: Folksong, Poetry, and Other Cognitive Dissonance from the American War in Vietnam. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Barr, Kathleen (2012-05). Held Hostage: America and Its Allies Confront OPEC, 1973 - 1981. Doctoral Dissertation.