War protests in 1960s viewed in history journal

The war protest movement at IU in the 1960s is discussed in the current issue of the Indiana Magazine of History. The quarterly journal is published by the Department of History at IU Bloomington in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Society. Eric Sandweiss, professor of history at IUB, is the editor.

The war protest article involves four individuals commenting on the book Dissent in the Heartland: The Sixties at Indiana University, by Mary Ann Wynkoop. Two are student leaders and political activists from that era, along with a faculty member/administrator and a former history professor. Wynkoop, who teaches history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, also responds to their comments.

Other articles in the current issue deal with the Indiana “bonds” fraud in 1861-62 and IU President Andrew Wylie and religion at the university between 1824 and 1851.

In the Wylie article, Gayle Williams, assistant dean of University College at IUPUI, says that IU’s nonsectarian policy distinguished it from other early colleges in the state and led to the modern secular university.

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