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The virtual human rights library brings together resources from multiple libraries and information services, both internal and external, to create an online hub dedicated to the study of human rights. This curation is unique in its interdisciplinary concerns and focuses on writings and research from social sciences, humanities, and law.

The virtual library is continually updated with the latest academic research in issue areas, as well as with relevant films, recorded conversations, and other forms of media.

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Kathleen Belew Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Harvard University Press, 2018)

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of white supremacy, virulent anticommunism, and apocalyptic faith. In Bring the War...

Jonathan Padwe Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands (University of Washington Press, 2020)

In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill rice farmers of the Jarai ethnic minority group survived aerial bombardment and the American invasion...

Fabio Lanza The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies (Duke University Press, 2017)

In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United States' policies in Vietnam, the CCAS mounted a sweeping attack...

David Biggs Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam (University of Washington Press, 2021)

When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of past wars in...

Viet Thanh Nguyen Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2017)

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese...

Barbara Keys Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s (Harvard University Press, 2014)

The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm...

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