Battle Green Vietnam

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Elise Lemire is the author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts and "Miscegenation": Making Race in America, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. A two-time fellowship recipient from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is Professor of Literature at Purchase College, SUNY.

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Based on more than one hundred interviews with participants and accompanied by nearly forty photographs and maps, Battle Green Vietnam tells the story of the 1971 antiwar protest by Vietnam veterans that resulted in the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history.

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Contents
Introduction. The Power of Place and Performance
Chapter 1. Paul Revere's Ride
Chapter 2. Minute Men Statues
Chapter 3. Memorial War Obelisks
Chapter 4. Battle Roads and Fields
Chapter 5. Historical Reenactment
Chapter 6. Memorial Day
Epilogue. Memorializing the Vietnam War
Abbreviations of Sources and Organizations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments