For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war. And it helped many of those who came home to heal. Author Doug Bradley talks about the popular tunes of the era and plays clips from songs that had significant resonance for those in the field and the veterans who returned home.

Writer-director PJ Moynihan explores what is commonly viewed as severe mental illness, or psychosis, chronicling three individual cases over a nearly five-year period. “People can and do recover from even the most severe mental health issues,” Moynihan says, “and that is not the message they are getting from their doctors, or from society in general.”  The To Your Health: Wellness Cinema series features film screenings followed by a discussion.

The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era firsthand and those not yet born when the troops returned home. There may be no better bridge across those twin divisions than Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.

Brad Birzer examines the meaning of imagination as understood by Russell Kirk, an acknowledged founder of the modern conservative movement in the U.S. The author of more than 30 books and hundreds of essays, reviews, and syndicated columns, Kirk - who died in 1994 -  hoped to enliven post-World War II western and American civilization with liberal education, small communities of friends, and speculative fiction.