Selected List of Peace-Antiwar and Vietnam War Sources for a Culture of Change

Created by Shannon Christen-Syed, Summer 2021

Articles and Books

Anderson, M., Gildzen, A., & Craig, R. A. (Eds.). (1992) A Gathering of Poets. The Kent State University Press.

Appy, C. (2015). American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. Penguin Books.

Backderf, D. (2020). Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio. Abrams ComicArts.

Bly, R., & Ray, D. (Eds.). (1967). A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War. The American Writers Against the Vietnam War.

Brabner, J., Badger, M., & Vansant, W. (1995). Activists! Stabur Press.

Brick, H., & Parker, G. (Eds.). (2015). A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement and Its Times [external website]. Michigan Publishing Services.

Browning, S. (Ed.). (2003). D.C. Poets Against the War. Argonne House Press.

Child, B. (2019). Memories of a Vietnam Veteran: What I Have Remembered and What He Could Not Forget. Chiron Publications and Koa Books.

Costello, B., Cremins, M. A., Alaniz, J., Alexandratos, J., & Bryan, P. C. (2021). Graphic Representations of Vietnam Syndrome: Race and Masculinity in The ’Nam and Real War Stories. In The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade. Louisiana State University Press.

Ehrhart, W. D. (1983). Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir. McFarland.

Ehrhart, W. D. (1987). Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War [external website]. The Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 63 no. 2, pp. 246–265.

Ehrhart, W.D. (Ed.). (1989). Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War. Texas Tech University Press.

Ehrhart, W. D. (Ed.). (1989). Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War. Texas Tech University Press.

Erenrich, S. (2020). The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement after Kent State 1970. The Kent State University Press.

Gilbert, A. (2018). A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam. University of Massachusetts Press.

Gitlin, T. (1993). The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (Rev. ed.). Bantam.

Goldensohn, L. (2018). Lifting the Darkness: American and Vietnamese War Poets [external website]. Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 16 no. 2, pp. 1-27.

Hamill, S. (Ed.). (2003). Poets Against the War. Nation Books.

Hayden, T. (2003). Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s. Red Hen Press.

Harper, P.B. (1993). Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960s [external website]. Critical Inquiry, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 234-255.

Jedick, P. (2015). Hippies: A Kent State Love Story (3rd ed.). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

Komunyakaa, Y. (1988). Dien Cai Dau. Wesleyan University Press.

Lowenfels, W. (Ed.). (1967). Where Is Vietnam? American Poets Respond. Anchor.

Mahoney, P. (1989). From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath. Scribner.

Morgan, E. P. (2010). What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy. University of Kansas Press.

Pekar, H. (2009). Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History (G. Dumm, Ed.). Hill and Wang.

The Regents of the University of California. (2013). Cold War America Lesson #4: The Vietnam War [external website].

Ruffner, H. (2019). Moments of Truth: A Photographer’s Experience of Kent State 1970. The Kent State University Press.

Smith, K. M., and Koster, T. (Eds.). (2008). Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties. Pearson Education.