Contact Information
Office: 210 Powers Hall
Phone: (989) 774-3807
Email: hall1mk@cmich.edu
Spotlight on Faculty Research
Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era (2008).
The Vietnam War, 2nd Edition (2007).
Crossroads: American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation (2005).
Mitchell K. Hall
Mitchell K. Hall took his Ph.D. in recent United States history from the University of Kentucky in 1987. He taught for two years at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis before arriving at CMU in 1989. He is the former editor of the journal Peace & Change, and is a past president of the Peace History Society.
Research and Teaching Interests
Professor Hall's research and teaching deal primarily, though not exclusively, with the 1945-1975 era. He is most interested in social movements and the links between domestic politics and foreign policy issues. His first two books, Because of Their Faith: CALCAV and Religious Opposition to the Vietnam War and The Vietnam War address these issues. More recently his research and teaching interests have expanded to include modern American popular culture. His latest book, Crossroads: American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation, surveys postwar film, television, sports, and music. Hall's articles deal with antiwar activities, student political activism, and links between religious faith and attitudes toward war in the twentieth century. Current book projects include surveys of the Vietnam antiwar movement and the history of rock and roll. Among the undergraduate courses he teaches on a regular basis are The Vietnam War, The United States since World War II, and The Rock and Roll Era.
Recent Publications
Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Administrations. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
Crossroads: American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
"The Vietnam Antiwar Movement," OAH Magazine of History 18 (October 2004): 13-17.
The Vietnam War. London: Longman Publishers, 2000; second edition (2007). Italian edition, La Guerra del Vietnam (Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino, 2003).
"Unsell the War: Vietnam and Antiwar Advertising," The Historian 58 (Autumn 1995): 69-86. Reprinted in Walter Hixson, ed., The United States and the Vietnam War: Significant Scholarly Articles, New York: Garland, 2000.
"Radical Observations: John A. Junot's Account of the Sixties," Viet Nam Generation 6 (1994): 78-82.
"CALCAV and Religious Opposition to the Vietnam War," in Give Peace A Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, ed. Melvin Small and William D. Hoover (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992), 35-52.
Because of Their Faith: CALCAV and Religious Opposition to the Vietnam War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
"A Withdrawal from Peace: The Historical Response to War of the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)," Journal of Church and State 27 (Spring 1985): 301-314.
"A Crack In Time: The Response of Students at the University of Kentucky to the Tragedy at Kent State, May 1970," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 83 (Winter 1985): 36-63.
"A Time For War: The Church of God's Response to Vietnam," Indiana Magazine of History 79 (December 1983): 285-304.