From High Hopes to Easy Riders: American Society and Culture in the 1960's

This set of 4 lectures examines one of the most dynamic and controversial eras in US cultural history:

the 1960s. From music to film to literature to politics, the decade saw a profound transformation in

basic social values, generational aspirations, political activism, and gender dynamics. This was the era

of the Beatles, the Stones, Peter, Paul and Mary and Jimi Hendrix. It is also the time of groundbreaking

films such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Easy Rider and Urban Cowboy. Explore some of the

groundswells that led to these developments! For African Americans, women, the urban poor, young

people generally, and many others, America itself would never be the same again.