Aaron G. Fountain Jr.

Aaron G. Fountain, Jr. is a historian who studies high school student activism in the 1960s and 1970s, covering themes of education, race, political radicalism, and surveillance. He holds a Doctorate in History from Indiana University, and writes and presents public talks about twentieth-century American political and social history. His first book is High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America. He has also begun his second book project, a cultural and political history of teenagers and the Vietnam War in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Dr. Fountain has published widely in academic and public-facing outlets, and his freelance essays explore themes of student activism, race and ethnicity, and online misogyny.