If you’re writing a novel about the nineteen-sixties, then you’re writing a historical novel, for the nineteen-sixties were a long time ago, and everyone knows how things turned out. And if you're ...
Much has been written in these pages about the political upheavals of the 1960s and the radical changes they have brought to every aspect of our cultural and intellectual life. What has now come to be ...
On The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958–c.1974 by Arthur Marwick. “One is clever and knows everything that has ever happened: so there is no end of ...
Tethered to the rather sobering notion that the youngest baby boomers are turning 50 this year, CNN’s “The Sixties” provides a nostalgic if not particularly insightful look at that tumultuous decade, ...
John McMillian’s new book, “Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America,” is a lively account of an oft-overlooked aspect of the anti-war movement: ...
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? And Babylon, so many times destroyed. Who built the city up each ...
When I was a junior in high school, my American History teacher assigned the class a lengthy term paper. She instructed us to base it on extensive research, to become intimate with microfilm and ...