Books
Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America
Divided: The Civil War of the 1960's
A balanced interpretation and synthesis of the scholarly
literature on the 1960s, which examines such topics as
electoral politics, civil rights, the counterculture,
and the impact of the Vietnam war, and looks at the conservative
as well as left-wing movements.
Films
Forrest Gump
The tumultuous and tragic events of the late 1950s, 1960s
and 1970s,
including the Vietnam War and the Watergate Affair, are
viewed through the eyes of a naive, child-like young man.
For comprehensive reviews, see:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/
The New Hollywood
A succinct essay on the films of the 1960s and 1970s
Web Sites
Recommended Web Sites:
American Cultural History, 1960-1969
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html
Related Web Sites:
Did the United States Lose the War on Poverty?
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/con_poverty.cfm
David Goldfield, "How the Civil Rights Movement
Defined and Defied the 1960s"
http://www.hum.vxu.se/publ/humanetten/nummer8/art0101.html
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