"More than other local histories of campus activism during thisperiod, Dissent in the Heartland introduces national themes and events, andsuccessfully places Indiana University into that context. The research in primarysources, including FBI files, along with numerous interviews, is superior, and thewriting is lucid and at times provocative."
-- Terry H. Anderson, author of The Sixties

This grassroots view of student activism inthe 1960s chronicles the years of protest at one Midwestern university. Located in aregion of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values, IndianaUniversity was home to antiwar protestors, civil rights activists, members of thecounterculture, and feminists who helped change the heart of Middle America. Itsstudents made their voices heard on issues from such local matters as dorm curfewsand self-governance to national issues of racism, sexism, and the Vietnam War. Theirrecognition that the personal was the political would change them forever. Theprotest movement they helped shape would reach into the heartland in ways that wouldredefine higher education, politics, and cultural values.

Basedon research in primary sources, interviews, and FBI files, Dissent in the Heartlandreveals the Midwestern pulse of the Sixties, beating firmly, far from the eliteschools and urban centers of the East and West.