1960s

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• 11/10/19
  

  Echoes of the 1969 Vietnam War Protests 50 Years Later

  by Jim Castagnera

  "As I watch events unfolding in Washington today, I recall the river of candles flowing up Fifth Avenue fifty years ago. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”

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• 10/20/19
  

  Can a 1960s-like Counterculture Emerge?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Today we have just as much reason to protest as did the 1960’s dissidents. We need a counterculture, or an opposing culture or way of life, to embolden our emotions and imaginations and challenge "throaway" consumer culture. 

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• 9/5/19
  

  How The Media Covered Woodstock – and How Woodstock Changed The Media

  by Harlan Lebo

  Woodstock was a milestone – not just in coverage of the music scene, but also in broader media exploration of social and economic issues that affect younger audiences. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/3/19
  

  Police and punitive policies make schools less safe, especially for minority students

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  The increase in school security is directly linked to the rise of student activism that started to transform schools 50 years ago.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  8/18/19
  

  What 1969 Retrospectives Get Wrong About Baby Boomers and the Sixties

  by Louis Menand

  Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.

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• 8/4/19
  

  Woodstock at 50: A Conversation with Award Winning Filmmaker Barak Goodman

  by Jonathan Montano

  Goodman's latest documentary, "Woodstock: Three Days That Changed a Generation," premieres on PBS August 6th. 

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• 7/21/19
  

  Climate Change and the Last Great Awakening

  by Douglas S. Harvey

  The Last Great Awakening, if it is to be massive and successful, must involve profoundly altering our personal behaviors and inner lives while seriously committing to living in a sustainable way.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/16/19
  

  Not Everyone Wanted a Man on the Moon

  by Neil M. Maher

  Protesters in the late ’60s and early ’70s pushed for spending at home on the same multibillion dollar scale as the moon race.

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• SOURCE: Quillette
  6/25/19
  

  The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On

  by Tony Fels

  On April 20, 1969, an era of student rebellions that had rocked American campuses at Berkeley, Columbia, San Francisco State, and Harvard reached a culmination of sorts at Cornell. 

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• 3/1/19
  

  Tupperware Parties: Suburban Women's Plastic Path to Empowerment

  The parties swept the nation during the 1950s and 1960s—and were more than they seemed.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  Accessed 2/12/19
  

  "Black Perspectives" Features Online Roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect

  Featuring articles from Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Kim Gallon, and Fred Carroll.

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• SOURCE: National Public Radio
  12-18-13
  

  'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs Dies; Was Famed Fugitive

  Ronnie Biggs went to jail for his role in the Great Train Robbery, then lived on the lamb for thirty-six years after busting out.

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• 11-20-13
  

  Would We Still Have Had "The Sixties" If Kennedy Had Lived?

  by James T. Patterson

  Remember, the turmoil of the 1960s stemmed from forces unrelated to JFK's assassination.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  10-29-13
  

  You Don’t Need a Weatherman

  by Jon Wiener

  Jon Wiener on Bill Ayers' new autobiography, "Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9-30-13
  

  The Right Gets Its ’60s

  by Bill Keller

  Obamacare is their Vietnam.

• SOURCE: The Scotsman (UK)
  8-12-13
  

  Great Train Robbers dumped ‘foreign’ Scottish money

  THE Great Train Robbers ditched a huge haul of cash from their infamous raid because they were Scottish banknotes, it has been claimed.Gang members were said to be too wary of the “foreign” money snatched in the 1963 robbery, in which they stole £2.6 million (the equivalent of over £40m today) so they left it in their countryside hideout.But this proved to be one of the key pieces of evidence that led to most of the 15-man gang’s eventual capture.Author Nick Russell-Pavier, who carried out a series of interviews with mastermind Bruce Reynolds before he died, revealed the gang left behind a large sum in Scottish and Irish banknotes because they were wary of the currency....

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• LBJ Was a Great President

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  LBJ in 1969. Credit: Wiki Commons.This quoting of the opinions of some famous people on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson contains evaluations after his death in 1973 and my attempts at a scholarly evaluation twenty years later. Its purpose is to try to dilute the casual and even thoughtless remarks about this period of leadership that appear routinely (“Vietnam!”), and not too thoughtfully, in today’s lesser publications.

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• 6-19-13
  

  1964 Report: Humanities "Uniquely Equipped to Fill the 'Abyss of Leisure'" Made Possible by Forty-Hour Workweek

  by David Austin Walsh

  Credit: Wiki Commons.A new report on the state of the humanities in the United States reaffirms the importance of understanding our shared history as one of the cornerstones of democratic decision-making.The American Academy of Arts and Sciences released the comprehensive report of its Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences this week, and is presenting its recommendations to Congress on Wednesday.The Commission will emphasize the need to increase funding to the National Endowment of the Humanities (which has seen its budget decline nearly $17 million since 2010), as well as state humanities councils, and is calling for a humanities program similar to the proposed STEM Master Teacher Corps, which would provide career advancement and better pay for the top five percent of STEM teachers in the United States.The Long View

• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-26-13
  

  The U.S. government's bizarre tourism campaign for South Vietnam

  Before Vietnam became synonymous to 1970s Americans with a seemingly endless war, it might have conjured images of French wines and big game hunting. In the early 1960s, the U.S. government tried to encourage tourism in Vietnam in elsewhere in Southeast Asia as a sort of travel diplomacy."Tourism's proper development, it was believed, could serve important U.S. geostrategic objectives," writes University of Minnesota history professor Scott Laderman in his 2009 book Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory. Friendly American faces could soften the reputation of the U.S. overseas, it was thought, and their souvenir purchases might bolster emerging economies....[H]ere are some highlights from a 1961 travel brochure for the country, aptly titled "Visit Fascinating Vietnam," stored at archive.org and apparently housed at one point by the University of Texas....