The Los Angeles protests today, like the Kent State protest of 1970, have been overwhelmingly nonviolent. Now, as then, sending in troops threatens to escalate rather than calm political tumult.

As President Trump sends National Guard troops to Los Angeles, a military historian explains why crowd control is one of the Guard’s most challenging and dangerous missions.

The National Guard’s response to civilian protests has a deadly history made infamous by the Kent State massacre.

From Harry Truman’s “police action” in Korea to Bill Clinton’s air war over Kosovo, seven wars — Korea, Vietnam, Dominican ...

At the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, U.S. activists reflected on what the movement can ...

David Gilmour discussed why he appreciated Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's protest song 'Ohio', and why it became so ...

Fifty-five years ago last month, the Kent State University shootings left four people dead and several others injured, amid student protests over the U.S.’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

I am a kid of the tragedy at Kent State University. I wasn’t there, but I had a front-row seat to the awful aftermath of Ohio National Guard troops firing on protesting unarmed students, killing four ...

I am a kid of the tragedy at Kent State University. I wasn't there, but I had a front-row seat to the awful aftermath of Ohio National Guard troops firing ...

The war in Vietnam had grown increasingly unpopular by early 1970, but protests intensified on April 30 when President Richard Nixon authorized expanding the conflict into Cambodia.

I’d walk around muttering “Milk thistle, calcium, high-rise, boot cut / Advil, black jeans, blue jeans”—lyrics hissed out by ...