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SOURCE: New York Times
3/22/2021
Does Requiring Only Men to Register for the Draft Violate the Constitution?
by Adam Liptak
A Supreme Court challenge to the male-only requirement to register for the draft is an odd coalition of the ACLU and the anti-feminist National Coalition for Men. If successful, it could end one of the last legal sex-based distinctions in federal law.
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SOURCE: Salon
5/3/2020
As with Vietnam in the 1960s, COVID-19 is Exposing Racial Fault Lines in the U.S.
by Emily L. Quint Freeman
The author risked prison to try to break the connection between the U.S. war in Vietnam and domestic racism.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/17/2020
Social Distancing Won’t Happen Until Governments Order It
by Edward J.K. Gitre
To truly confront this threat we need to think bigger, to the greatest challenge the United States has had to face in the modern era, and yet overcame: World War II.
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1/19/20
What Dreams of Canada Tell Us About Race in America
by April Rosenblum
At a time when American casualties in Vietnam were disproportionately African American, most of those who successfully made it to Canada to resist the draft were white.
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5/5/19
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll and the Long Reach of World War I’s Jingoism
by Dirk Langeveld
Although it presented an extreme case, the Bergdoll saga demonstrates how the sentiments that had brought about “liberty measles” in 1917 were still alive and well more than two decades later.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/21/19
The first time the U.S. considered drafting women — 75 years ago
by Pamela D. Toler
As legislative debate about drafting women in 1945 shows, if the military need is great enough, women will be drafted no matter how uncomfortable lawmakers are with the prospect.
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5-18-14
Review of Bruce Dancis’s “Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War”
by Murray Polner
Dancis and many in his like-minded allies once believed they could bring about permanent, serious and nonviolent change.
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