Madison authors, topics, book events, & publishers. Stu Levitan welcomes the award-winning filmmaker and UW alum Glenn Silber for a conversation about The War at Home, the Academy Award-nominated documentary about the antiwar movement in Madison in the 1960s he made with co-producer/co-director Barry Alexander Brown. And proving that everything old can be made new again, […]
The Battle of Dow – Oct. 17-18, 1967
Madison in the sixties – The Battle of Dow, Oct. 17-18, 1967 Because it made the incendiary gel Napalm B for use in Vietnam, the Dow Chemical Company had been a target of the Students for Democratic Society ever since the Michigan SDS launched a protest against the Michigan-based company in August 1966. A two-day […]