The United States in the 1960s

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A survey of US history from 1960 to 1975. The course will cover such themes and topics as the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the Kennedy years, the counter culture, the Great Society, the rise and fall of the New Left, the anti-Vietnam War movement, Black Power, the flowering of rock music, the rise of modern conservatism, the women’s liberation movement, the Watergate scandal, and the legacy of the 1960s.