Tag Archives: 1968 DNC

The Siege of Chicago at 50: Todd Gitlin Remembers

Posted on August 5, 2018 by

Demonstrators greet military police with jeers outside the Democratic National Convention headquarters, August 29, 1968. “A key figure in and historian of the New Left, Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1964–65 and helped organize … Continue reading →

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The Tragedy of Hubert Humphrey

Posted on July 20, 2018 by

President Lyndon B. Johnson, left, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Humphrey’s advice that the United States should pull back on the Vietnam War nettled Johnson. “On Feb. 17, 1965, Vice President Hubert Humphrey sent President Lyndon B. Johnson … Continue reading →

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1968: The season of planting is not the season of harvest

Posted on June 12, 2018 by

“French intellectuals of a certain age tend to divide their lives into two parts – ‘before May’ and ‘after May’. Philosopher Jacques Rancière defined May 1968 as a political moment which ‘signals the very essence of politics.’ Twenty years later, … Continue reading →

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Silent Majority

Posted on May 11, 2018 by

Pat Buchanan – Richard Nixon “The silent majority is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. The term was popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon in a November 3, … Continue reading →

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50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

An American lieutenant carried a wounded South Vietnamese Ranger to an ambulance in February 1968, during the Tet offensive. “It was freezing on New Year’s Eve in Manhattan. A fresh layer of snow blanketed the ground on the night of … Continue reading →

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Summer’68 – John Douglas (1968)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by

“Draft resistance organizing in Boston, a Boston organizer’s trip to North Vietnam — a GI. coffeehouse in Texas, Newsreel’s take over of Channel 13 in New York — following the production of the Rat’s special issue on Chicago — and … Continue reading →

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The Urban Crisis and the New Militants Series

Posted on March 8, 2018 by

“By the late 1960s Chicago had become a battleground in struggles for social change, civil rights and against the war in Vietnam. The 1968 Democratic Party convention was accompanied by anti-war demonstrations and clashes between students and police. Civil rights … Continue reading →

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