The Port Huron Statement: The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution

"We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage independence in men and provide the media for their common participation . . ." — from the Port Huron Statement

Four key periods in American history have most influenced what America is like today: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War II, and...