Synopsis:
Drawn from a wide range of perspectives and showcasing a variety ofprimary source materials, Brian Ward’s The 1960s: ADocumentary Reader highlights the most important themes of theera.
- Supplies students with over 50 primary documents on theturbulent period of the 1960s in the United States
- Includes speeches, court decisions, acts of Congress, secretmemos, song lyrics, cartoons, photographs, news reports,advertisements, and first-hand testimony
- A comprehensive introduction, document headnotes, and questionsat the end of each chapter are designed to encourage students toengage with the material critically
From the Back Cover:
Drawn from a wide range of perspectives and showcasing a variety ofprimary source materials, Brian Ward’s The 1960s: ADocumentary Reader includes over 50 primary documents andhighlights the most important themes of the era. Cumulatively, thespeeches, court decisions, acts of Congress, secret memos, songlyrics, cartoons, photographs, news reports, advertisements, andfirst-hand testimony collected in this reader take students fromthe New Left to the New Right, from Vietnam to Woodstock, fromsuburbia to the moon, and from evangelicals to environmentalists.
With headnotes that place each text into historical context andan introduction that examines the difficulties historians face whenconfronted with an abundance of diverse, often contradictory,evidence, The 1960s offers students a sophisticatedintroduction to this most beguiling yet elusive of decades.
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