In this first phase, we will collectively develop a basic understanding of the Sixties. One student from each section will assume responsibility for researching one of the following aspects of the era, each a different “slice of history.” Working in collaboration with students from the other sections, you will (1) dig up quality secondary sources, (2) collaborate in writing a report, and (3) publish an annotated bibliography of recommended sources on your topic. In addition, working individually, you will (4) create and deliver an oral report.

• Party Politics: What Democrats and Republicans stood for in the 1960s
• Second Wave Feminism: The Feminine Mystique, Consciousness Raising, Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics
• The Vietnam War: from the Gulf of Tonkin to Mai Lai to the Pentagon Papers
• The Antiwar Movement: from campus protests to Woodstock
• Imagining Nuclear War: the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bomb Shelters, Dark Satire
• Racial Politics 1, 1960-64: the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act
• Racial Politics 2, 1965-70: the Black Power Movement
• Redefining Indecency: the Sexual Revolution
• Homosexuality, the Closet and the Incipient Gay Rights Movement
• Science and Technology: from household gizmos to the moon shot.
• Early Environmentalism, from Silent Spring to the first Earth Day
• Consumer Materialism and its Discontents: the Mainstream and the Counterculture
• Mind-altering drugs, from Valium to LSD
• Music: Rock’n’Roll, the Folk Revival, the British Invasion
• 1960s Art Trends
• Hollywood and the Film Industry

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