Hist. 10143w: America in the Sixties

Reading List:

Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (David Faber, 1994).

Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s (Columbia University Press, 2001).

The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics, 2002).

The Times Were a Changin’: The Sixties Reader (Three Rivers Press, 1998).

Instructor:

Jeff Roche, assistant professor of history. B.A., M.A., Georgia State, 1992, 1995; Ph.D. New Mexico, 2001. Co-editor with David Farber, The Conservative Sixties (Peter Lang, 2003).

What students knew of the ‘60s on the first day of class:

Vietnam War

Hippies

John F. Kennedy

Martin Luther King

Music

Free love

Civil Rights

Beatles

Where they got their knowledge:

Forrest Gump,

the movie

"The Sixties,"

NBC mini-series

"Eyes on the Prize," PBS history series

What they know now:

Kent State shootings

Tom Hayden

Democratic convention in Chicago

The Cold War

Civil Rights Act

Feminist movement

The pill

NOW

Little Rock, Arkansas

Tet offensive

Nixon - JFK election