Hayden taught numerous courses on social movements, two at Scripps College—one on the Long War and one on gangs in America—and a course called "From the '60s to the Obama Generation" at Pitzer College. He also taught at Occidental College and at Harvard University's Institute of Politics. He taught a class at University of California, Los Angeles on protests from Port Huron to the present. Hayden taught a class in political science at the University of Southern California during the 1977–78 school year. He was the author or editor of 19 books, including "The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama", "Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader", and his memoir, "Reunion", and served on the editorial board of "The Nation". His book "Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement", completed in the months before his death in October 2016, was published on January 31, 2017, by Yale University Press.