The 1960's - The Unraveling of America

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Trinity College

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When Rice University scholar Allen Matusow wrote his history of the 1960's, he entitled it The Unraveling of America. The image of a fabric loosening or deteriorating seems an appropriate way to characterize a decade that began with John Kennedy's inaugural summons to sacrifice and service, brought a cycle of riots and assassinations that exploded "Camelot" and the hopes of millions, and ended when Ohio National Guardsmen lowered their M-1 rifles and killed four Kent State University students during unruly demonstrations (which the slain students had not joined) triggered by Richard Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. Using a variety of readings - histories, biographies, documentary sources, memoirs and fiction - and tapping as well the rich filmic record of the times, our seminar will explore personalities and events that helped guide the course of history both at home and abroad. Topics will include Kennedy's Thousand Days; the civil rights movement; the Vietnam War; Johnson's Great Society; The Feminine Mystique and the women's movement; the New Left and the counterculture; the Nixon presidency and the origins of Watergate; and, not least, the stirrings of the great conservative reaction to the "vices and excesses of liberalism" and the radical left's "war again 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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