In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. Features historic quotations and photographs.
A historical overview of the hippie counterculture in America between 1963 and 1971 that discusses their origins and philosophy, and provides a time line, biographical sketches of significant individuals affiliated with the group, and primary source documents.
Journalist Tom Brokaw looks back on life in the United States during the 1960s, sharing the perspectives and experiences of famous and ordinary people who were affected by the tumultuous times, discussing changes that occurred in politics, culture, and society, and looking at how the era influenced events to come.
Examines the various political and cultural changes that occurred in American society during the decade of the 1960s and explores such topics as the student activist movement, the birth of the Hippie culture, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam protests, and women's liberation.
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1960s, including the space race, civil rights, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture as reflected in music and the arts.
A cultural history of the 1960s, exploring the connection between rock music, and marijuana and LSD, and discussing how the feelings of "living to music" have extended into succeeding decades.
