History

HIST4495America in the Sixties (O)3 ch (3C) [W]

An examination of the most tumultuous period in the recent history of the United States. Topics include the Cold War, the African American freedom movement and Black Power, the sexual revolution, the new left and the counterculture, the psychedelic movement, women's liberation, Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the conservative backlash, and the sixties in myth and memory. The central focus of the class is how the events of this watershed decade continue to shape American culture and politics? 

Prerequisite: HIST 2404 or permission of the instructor.