America in the 1960s  (Cultural Literacy course)

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This course explores the convulsive cultural and social forces that defined the United States during the 1960s. Topics include the Civil Rights Movement, rock 'n' roll, image and reality in the Kennedy Administration, the space race and moon landings, the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the emergence of a counterculture, the Women's Movement, and the music, literature and films of the era. The course also looks at how the 1960s continue to affect the United States, as well as the rest of the world.