Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex at any educational institution that received federal funding. Intended to focus on unfair admission practices, Title IX became ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with a chronology and brief description of the rise of anti-war activity on the University of Oregon campus. I feel that a qualitative change can be noted in the demonstrations ...

On October 2, 1968 the Mexican government massacred hundreds of peaceful protesters in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco plaza. Up to this point, Mexico had not experienced large-scale violence since the Mexican Revolution of the ...

This thesis examines the activities and beliefs of a group of scientists, mostly former Manhattan Project workers, who were politically active in the years immediately following WWII. Their organized activities formed what ...

The third pandemic of bubonic plague menaced the whole globe for more than a century and claimed the lives of more than thirteen million people. In the twentieth century, plague reached America for the first time, arriving ...

In the late 1970s, some Vietnam veterans accused the US government of dismissing its obligation to provide them financial and medical compensation for injuries they believed were sustained during the Vietnam War. Veterans ...