Tag Archives: Vietnam War

Michigan Today

Rebel in the multiversity

James Tobin | July 25, 2023

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

James Tobin | November 18, 2022

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

James Tobin | February 28, 2022

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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