These materials were collected by Barrie Thorne (b. 1942) who participated in the Boston Draft Resistance Group and the New England Resistance, and wrote about them as a sociologist, including her dissertation, Resisting the Draft: An Ethnography of the Draft Resistance Movement (1971). She is currently professor emerita in Women's Studies and Sociology at the University of California in Berkeley and previously was on the faculty of Michigan State University, where she helped to create the Women's Studies Program in the early 1970s, and on the faculty at the University of Southern California. The draft resistance or anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States was made up of a number of independent groups and interests, sometime allied with one another, other times contesting one another on particular issues. What united the movement was an opposition to the Vietnam War. The movement gained national prominence in 1965 and peaked in 1968, and it remained powerful throughout the duration of the Vietnam War.