America in the Sixties (O)

3 ch (3C) (W) · Undergraduate

Examines the most tumultuous period in the recent history of the United States. Topics include the Cold War, the African American freedom movement and Black Power, the sexual revolution, the new left and the counterculture, the psychedelic movement, women’s liberation, Vietnam and the anti - war movement, t he conservative backlash, and the sixties in myth and memory. How do the events of this watershed decade continue to shape American culture and politics?