Unit Two: Something's Happening, But What?
Unit Three: Feminism, Who Have Been the Contributing Voices?
Unit Four: Vietnam, Why Did It Happen, and Why Did It Happen As It Did?
---Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Contemporary United States History
(a.k.a., "Surviving the Sixties")
Course Essential Questions
What are your informed, historical perspectives on life in the United States and America's role in world affairs during the time period c. 1945-81?
How does music help inform our perspectives on America's history and culture?
What occurred before the 1960s that influenced the people, events and developments that came to define "The Sixties"?
What occurred during the 1960s that was especially meaningful to the United States and world at that time and afterwards?
How have the people, events and developments of the Sixties influenced American society and the world in the years that have followed?
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Unit One: 1945-59, Age of
Innocence, Or Not? Unit Two: Something's Happening, But What? Unit Three: Feminism, Who Have Been the Contributing Voices? Unit Four: Vietnam, Why Did It Happen, and Why Did It Happen As It Did? |
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"There is a specific reason,
of course, why 'the Sixties' are still so heated a subject...the genies that
the Sixties loosed are still abroad in the land, inspiring and unsettling
and offending, making trouble."
---Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage |
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Photos:
Baez & Dylan: www.depts.washington.edu
Vietnam Memorial: www.vietnamwar.com
Dr. King: www.compending.com