Heineman, Kenneth J. Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era. New York: NYU Press, 1994.

== Summary ==
Kenneth
Heineman’s Campus Wars looks at the
impact of the anti-Vietnam War protests on college campuses and their lasting
impact. He argues, contrary to popular myth, that the protests did not end the
war. Yet, he also argues that “student, faculty, and campus-based clergy
protestors successfully limited the intellectual and political authority of
university administrators,” by reforming the curriculum removing restrictions
(in loco parentis) and securing academic freedom. (2) He also contends that the
sixties provoked a political backlash amongst working class whites that led to
the election of both Nixon and Reagan. Heineman is also responding to
scholarship (see footnote 6, introduction which includes both Rorabaugh and
Miller) that has largely focused on elite universities. However, Heineman
argues, it is at the “academically average” state university where the real
campus action of the 1960s and 1970s was to be found.  The focus of this book is thus on those
universities: Kent State, SUNY Buffalo, Michigan State University, and Penn State,
which Heineman believes are a better mirror onto 1960s society (prowar and
apathetic) and shed light on the key role play by state university students
(Penn State-Carl Davidson, VP of SDS in 1966). The key themes that Heineman
studies include: the growing dependence of state universities on
federal-military funding and its effect on their educational missions; the
cultural and political values of university administrators; and the
relationship between community and the university (e.g. conservative Kent and
Kent State). Heineman’s book also looks at the ideological, class, and cultural
differences within activists groups and how it limited cooperation (E.g. clergy
activists v. Marxist inspired)