{"id":6431,"date":"2025-04-17T11:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/?page_id=6431"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:59:30","slug":"pierce-bounds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/course-syllabus\/pierce-bounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Bounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been a radical,\u201d insists former anti-Vietnam War activist Pierce Bounds. &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2016\/05\/06\/a-new-campus-culture-anti-war-movement-and-education-reform-at-dickinson-college\/\">Oral history project by Sarah Goldberg, History 118, Spring 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>On Doing Oral History interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/52CbO9irp5M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hUzlpIxXbtM?si=5Y_HnI7N23ecdh7A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Insights from HIST 118 projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_7713\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Pierce-Bounds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7713\" class=\"wp-image-7713 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2025\/04\/Pierce-Bounds-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierce Bounds<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Focus on specific historians<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Bounds\u2019 memories of student protest culture ultimately complicate Brands\u2019 radical narrative by framing the trajectory of Dickinson\u2019s moderate anti-war movement in the context of a larger generational shift towards new campus norms rather than radical politics.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find striking details<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Bounds and his friends liked \u201cirritating our elders\u201d by flaunting a copy of Chairman Mao\u2019s Little Red Book. \u201cI never read it. Most people never read it. But we loved to hold that little red book,\u201d Bounds reminisces.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deploy multiple perspectives<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Former Dickinson College President Bill Durden recalls similar restrictions: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t go upstairs [in a women\u2019s dormitory]; we would have been, you know, arrested or something.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMarihuana [sic] is part of the student\u2019s environment,\u201d admitted Dickinson\u2019s Drug Education Committee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Describe key turning points<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;This new attention to student\u2019s rights culminated in D.E.C.L.A.R.E Day, or Dickinson\u2019s Expression Concerning Learning and Re-Evaluating of Education. On March 5, 1969, the administration announced a moratorium on classes so that students could participate in discussions with faculty. Students hoped to address the conservative academic environment that felt anachronistic among the social and cultural shifts of the late 1960s. \u201cMy courses add up to a degree \u2013 do they add up to an education?\u201d questioned the front page of <em>The Dickinsonian<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anticipate interpretive objections or alternatives<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;At Dickinson\u2019s largest anti-war protest, more than a thousand marched through Carlisle to the War College in May 1970 in reaction to the shootings at Kent State and the invasion of Cambodia.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been a radical,\u201d insists former anti-Vietnam War activist Pierce Bounds. &#8212;Oral history project by Sarah Goldberg, History 118, Spring 2016 On Doing Oral History interviews &nbsp; &nbsp; Insights from HIST 118 projects &nbsp; Focus on specific historians &#8220;Bounds\u2019 memories of student protest culture ultimately complicate Brands\u2019 radical narrative by framing the trajectory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6431","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6431\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}