124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Making War, Shaping Public Opinion: Domestic Pressure Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy in the American Century

Making War, Shaping Public Opinion: Domestic Pressure Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy in the American Century

AHA Session 187

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Leucadia Room (Marriott)

Chair:

David Greenberg, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Papers:

"The World War Dead Did Not Die in Vain": Veteran Organizations Debate U.S. Involvement in World War II, 1939–41
Stephen R. Ortiz, Bowling Green State University

The Politics of Failed Wars: Conservatism and Vietnam, 1964–68
Seth Offenbach, Stony Brook University

Give War a Chance: The Nixon Administration and Domestic Support for the Vietnam War, 1968–73
Sarah J. Thelen, American University

Comment:

David Greenberg, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

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