Prologue
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Bob Dylan
Creating Context
The Swinging Sixties • A Dubious Crusade • Map of Southeast Asia •Timeline • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Were the Roots of the Conflict?
Thinking Skill: Summarizing
- Ballad of the Green Berets (song lyrics)
- Sgt. Barry Sadler
- History (poem)
- Thuong Vuong-Riddick
- The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution May Have Been the Gulf Between Truth and Fiction (article)
- M. Hirsh Goldberg
- Jack Smith (oral history)
- Ron Steinman
- On the Rainy River (short story)
- Tim O’Brien
Cluster Two: What Was the War Experience?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag (song lyrics)
- Joe McDonald
- Hippies (memoir)
- Alex Forman
- Village (short story)
- Estela Portillo
- Farmer Nguyen (poem)
- W. D. Ehrhart
- The Massacre at My Lai (essay)
- Hugh Thompson
- A Nun in Ninh Hoa (poem)
- Jan Barry
- A Piece of My Heart (oral history)
- Anne Simon Auger as told to Keith Walker
Cluster Three: What Was Happening Back Home?
Thinking Skill: Generalizing
- San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) (song lyrics)
- John Phillips
- Law and Order Chicago Style (article)
- Donald Kaul
- Like a Rolling Stone (memoir)
- Ben Fong-Torres
- Woodstock Nation (essay)
- Marc Aronson
- Woodstock: The Oral History (interviews)
- Irwin Unger
- State of Emergency at “The People’s Republic of Berkeley” (memoir)
- Tom Hayden
- Cambodia (speech)
- President Richard M. Nixon
- The Kent State Tragedy (article)
- Roger Barr
- Born on the Fourth of July (autobiography)
- From Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (song lyrics)
- Pete Seeger
- Epilogue (autobiography)
- Philip Caputo
- A President’s Pain (vignette)
- President Gerald R. Ford
- The Summer of Vietnam (essay)
- Barbara Renaud González
- Stop the Sun (short story)
- Gary Paulsen
- To Heal a Nation (article)
- Joel L. Swerdlow
