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- Maximum RockNRoll – The Early Years
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- Life Magazine Covers The Vietnam War #4– May, 1954
- The Decree of Demophantos
- A Spectre is Haunting America, Again.
- Ramparts Magazine: Midwife of the 1960s Student Revolts
- Life Magazine Covers The Vietnam War #3 – August, 1953
- Phil and Michael Ochs – Goodbye Columbus
- Life Magazine Covers The Vietnam War #2 – January, 1951
- Stamps, Gold, And Sandinistas: A Short History of Gunboat Diplomacy in Nicaragua
- Dickey Chapelle – Trailblazing War Correspondent
- There’s A Riot Goin’ On
- Light Up For Liberty – The Lost Age of the Smoke-In
- The Punch Card As Symbol, 1964
- Vietnam Era Anti-War Stickers and Buttons
- Life Magazine Covers The Vietnam War #1 – December 1947
- Livy’s Class Warfare – 2700 Years and Counting…
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- Henry David Thoreau
- Anniversary: Dien Bien Phu
- The Century Of The Self (BBC)
- Nelson Mandela – Oakland Coliseum Stadium 06/30/90
- The Art of the Con: The Great American Narrative
- “If You Are Going To Try, Go All The Way” – Charles Bukowski
- Cambodia, Kent State and the Kissinger Question?
- Robert Motherwell: Elegies to the Spanish Republic
- Barcelona v. Las Palmas match played without fans amid Catalonia vote
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- George Orwell: From 1936 to 1984
- Tony Judt – Past Imperfect, Present Impotent, Future ?
- La Marseillaise Casablanca
- Christmas Greetings from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade – Spain 1937
- Malle, Moreau and Miles – Elevator to Modernity
- Burning Down The House
- Store and Torrent – Can Solar Batteries Save Us?
- The Stand In The Schoolhouse Door – Integrating The University of Alabama, 1963
- Slipping Into Darkness Again? The Death of RFK
- UEFA Championship: the Generalisimo’s Legacy Lives On
- In Memory, Emmett Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955):
- The Man With The Movie Camera (1929)
- Hello Michelangelo- Your Conference Call ID# is MDXII
- Chamber of Commerce – The Wages of Sin
- Philadelphia Jazz City – The Great Tradition
- Guns in American Society – No Magic Bullets
- Remembering the Anti-Apartheid Movement in the East Bay
- Forward Into The Past: Utah, In Fit of Nostalgia, Brings Back The Firing Squad
- Momentous Days: March 7-8, 1965
- Neon: the 20th Century’s Sign of the Times
- John G. Morris – 20th Century Little Big Man
- The Mysterious Death of Ruben Salazar
- Pascal’s Wager: Place Your Bets
- Studs Terkel Radio Archive
- An Ode to Woody and Jack
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- Who Spoke Up? – Voices of Protest Against the War in Vietnam
- Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
- Nixonland: A Colony of Reaganville?
- Toledo Electric Auto-Lite Strike 1934
- Letter from Ho Chi Minh to President Harry S. Truman, 02/28/1946
- Combat Footage: French Indochina War
- Geneva Peace Conference 1954
- Geneva 1954 and the Rise of Ngo Dinh Diem
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
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- The French Mobile Group 100 in Indochina, 1953-54
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- Audio: LBJ and Nixon on Vietnam and 1968 Presidential Election
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- The Battle of Chipyong-ni (February 1951)
- Ode to Kilgore Trout (aka Kurt Vonnegut)
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- Audio/Video: The 1960s Counter-Culture Scene
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- Audio/Video: Famous Speeches of Malcolm X
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- Audio: Which Direction for the Left in 1968
- Video: Vietnam Peace Marches 1965 – 1972
- Audio: Chicago 1968
- Audio: Mario Savio – “place your bodies upon the gears” Speech
- Audio: The Fall Of South Vietnam
- Audio: How Are You Doing in Vietnam?
- Audio: Dr. Benjamin Spock in Berkeley 1968
- Audio: Sproul Hall Sit-in 1968
- Audio: My Lai Incident
- Audio: 1968 Columbia University Student Strike
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- Audio: Is Draft Resistance the Answer? Berkeley 1968
- Audio: Soldiers Question War – Feb 1968
- KPFA news of October 31 1968
- Audio: Martin Luther King Jr. on Vietnam 1967 -68
- Audio: Khe Sanh and Tet 1968
- Audio: Battle for Hue 1968
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- Audio: IF Stone On Vietnam 1965
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- Jesse Holman Jones (1874-1956)
- A.P. Giannini: The Man Who Saved San Francisco
- Audio: The Highlander School
- Harry Bridges and the Formation of the ILWU
- Vietnam: The Final Statistics
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- Photography: The Mexican Suitcase
- Rousseau, the General Will, and the Tragedy of the Commons
- The Dubs Effect
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