The Sixties: From Memory to History

by David Farber (Editor)

Overview

This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from fresh perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469608730
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	12/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	342
Lexile:	1520L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David Farber, professor of history at the University of New Mexico, is author of Chicago '68, The First Strange Place, and The Age of Great Dreams.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A unique and necessary contribution to our understanding of the Sixties, one that should help wrench discussions away from the nostalgic realm where, even among academics, they have remained for far too long.”—Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology

“The 1960s is now history; and in The Sixties eleven of America’s brightest young historians engage such topics as the youth culture, sexuality, changing cultural identities, women’s liberation, and the silent majority. In so doing, they brilliantly illuminate the decade as a battleground for cultural authority and political legitimacy.”—William M. Tuttle, Jr., author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 and Daddy’s Gone to War': The Second World War in the Lives of America’s Children

William M. Tuttle,Jr.

The 1960's is now history; and in The Sixties eleven of America's brightest young historians engage such topics as their youth culture, sexuality, changing cultural identities, women's liberation, and the silent majority. In so doing, they brilliantly eliminate the decade as a battle ground for cultural authority and political legitimacy.
—William M. Tuttle, Jr., author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919

Robert A. Rosenstone

A unique and necessary contribution to our understanding of the sixties, one that should help wrench discussions away from the nostalgic realm where, even among academics, they have remained for far too long.
—Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology

Editorial Reviews

A generally impressive volume of original essays on the 1960s. . . . These essays, taken as a whole, complicate our vision of the decade in interesting ways."—The Nation

Essential reading for anyone interested in the period. . . . No one can safely ignore the material in this major addition to literature on this decade, the meanings of which are still being contested both in scholarly media and the popular imagination."—Journal of American Culture

The Sixties is a superb collection. With luck it will serve as a catalyst for a new round of quality scholarship on the 1960s and early 1970s. Everyone interested in the era should have a copy."—History of Education Quarterly

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