It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin American polymath: a writer, ...

Dave Gustafson is a U.S. veteran who fought in the Vietnam War. Now, he sees the country representing and supporting values that are the opposite of those he fought for. “This is where it starts. When ...

On May 8, 1971, a freelance photojournalist was flying over central Vietnam when he looked down and saw something unexpected: ...

Readers discuss free speech implications over Columbia professor’s alleged antisemitism. Regarding the Jan. 24 front-page ...

US involvement in Vietnam began ... The war that was supposed to defeat communism in southeast Asia scarred America’s psyche and powered the counter-cultural protest movement in the 1960s.

Undercover police targeting activist groups conducted intrusive surveillance, with some even embarking on relationships under ...

By Michelle Trauring When Tela Troge was in high school, she saw an advertisement for a lecture by Dr. John A. Strong and immediately told her mother that she needed to be in the audience. She gathere ...

Protesters marched around the North Carolina State Capitol building on Wednesday, part of a nationwide series of ...

Student protesters shouted from the Smith Union windows, laying out their critiques of the College in a “courtroom” format.

America was embroiled in an unpopular war. A presidential election was on the horizon and civil rights were hotly debated. That description could easily fit today or 1968, as ninth-graders at ...

Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators used the inverted flag to protest the government’s actions. A 1974 Supreme Court decision upheld the right to display a flag upside down after a university student ...