Tag Archives: Vietnam War

  • Michigan Today

    Rebel in the multiversity

    As Roger Rapoport said himself, “No one ever has a good word for the multiversity” — the 1960s term for universities grown too big and powerful to serve the public good. And in 1967, one might have expected any student but Rapoport, the quintessential campus gadfly of the Vietnam era, to speak up for the University of Michigan. But so he did, in the pages of one of the nation’s most prestigious magazines, the Atlantic Monthly.

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  • Michigan Today

    Coming home: A Vietnam Veteran in the Law School

    After months of combat in Vietnam, Tom Carhart arrived on the University of Michigan's campus, the culture of which was defined by opposition to the war, to begin law school.

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  • Heritage

    The First Teach-In

    On the night of March 2, 1965, one hundred U.S. and South Vietnamese heavy bombers crossed into North Vietnamese air space to pound supply routes between Hanoi and the south. It was the first time U.S. forces had taken the offensive in the war between South and North Vietnam.

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