1. Week One: The Dark Ages
9. Week Ten: Countercultures: The Sexual Revolution
1.1. Mainstream U.S. Culture in the Fifties
2. Week Two: The Cold War and "the Bomb"
1.2. The Baby Boom
1.3. Back to the Depression?
1.4. Levittown and Downtown
1.5. The Golden Age of the Automobile
1.6. Consumer Culture and Advertising
1.7. Television
1.8. The Other America
2.1. The Atomic Menace
2. Week Three: Juvenile Delinquents and the Beats
2.2. Peaceful Coexistence or Containment?
2.3. The Berlin Airlift and the Berlin Wall
2.4. The Korean War
2.5. Red Scare and the Witchhunt
2.6. The Race into Space
2.7. Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
3.1. The Movies' Bad Boys
3. Week Four: National Liberation and the Third World
3.2. Jack Kerouac
3.3. Allen Ginsberg
3.4. William S. Burroughs
3.5. The Beat Scene
3.6. Jazz!
3.7. Existentialism
3.8. Other Misfits and Alienated Souls
4.1. The Sun Never Sets?
4. Week Five: The Civil Rights Movements
4.2. Black Gold
4.3. India's Nehru and Ghana's Nkrumah
4.4. The CIA at Work
4.5. The Battle of Algiers
4.6. Nasser and the Third World
4.7. Arab-Israeli Conflicts
4.8. The Cuban Revolution
5.1. Jim Crow and Apartheid
5. Week Six: The Vietnam Wars
5.2. "Strange Fruit"
5.3. Brown v. Board of Education
5.4. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
5.5. Little Rock
5.6. Sit-Ins
5.7. The Freedom Riders
5.8. Sharpeville Massacre and Nelson Mandela
5.9. The March on Washington
5.10. "Bombingham"
5.11. Freedom Summer
5.12. The Civil Rights Acts
5.13. The Betrayal of the Liberals
5.14. Selma to Montgomery
5.15. Confronting Racism in the North
6.1. Ho Chi Minh
6. Week Seven: The Anti-War Movement
6.2. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
6.3. The Geneva Accords
6.4. The U.S. Gets Involved
6.5. The National Liberation Front
6.6. The Demise of the Diem Regime
6.7. The Tonkin Gulf Incident
6.8. Johnson's War Johnson's War
6.9. The Tet Offensive
6.10. Nixon's War and Vietnamization
6.11. The My Lai Massacre
6.12. The Invasion of Cambodia
6.13. The Pentagon Papers
6.14. The Paris Peace Accords
6.15. Victory and Peace at Last
7.1. Ban the Bomb
8.1 Week Eight: Countercultures: The Bay Area in the Sixties
7.2. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
7.3. Draft Resistance
7.4. Naming the System
7.5. A Racist War
7.6. Kent State and Jackson State
7.7. Vietnam Veterans against the War (VVAW)
7.8. Bringing the War Back Home
7.9. Beyond the Sixties
8.2 Week Eight: Countercultures: Rock 'n Roll
8.1.1. Bohemia on the Bay
8.1.2. Operation Abolition
8.1.3. The Free Speech Movement
8.1.4. Haight Ashbury
8.1.5. The Diggers and the Mime Troupe
8.1.6. Ken Kesey and the Acid Tests
8.1.7. The San Francisco Sound
8.1.8. The Summer of Love
8.1.9. People's Park People's Park
8.2.1. The Black Origins
8. Week Nine: Spring Break
8.2.2. "Whitening" the Music
8.2.3. The Folk Revival
8.2.4. Bob Dylan
8.2.5. The British Invasion
8.2.6. Motown
8.2.7. Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground
8.2.8. Woodstock
8.8.9. Altamont and Charles Manson
8.8.10. The Doors
10.1.1. Repression and Denial
Week Ten: Countercultures: Turning On, Tuning In, Dropping Out
10.1.2. The Kinsey Reports
10.1.3. Birth Control
10.1.4. The Courts
10.1.5. Lenny Bruce
10.1.6. Theatre and the Movies
10.1.7 Abortion
10.1.8 Gay Rights
10.2.1. "We Are Leaving"
11. Week Eleven: Liberalism Ascendant
10.2.2. Communes
10.2.3. Vermont Back-to-the-Land Movement!
10.2.4. The New Age
10.2.5 Underground Newspapers
11.1. U.S. Corporate Liberalism
12. Week Twelve: 1968
11.2. The Kennedy Mystique
11.3. The Kennedy Reality
11.4. The Kennedy Assassination
11.5. LBJ's Great Society LBJ's Great Society
11.6. New Americans
11.7. Environmentalism
12.1.1. An Amazing and Troubled Year
18. Week Twelve: Third World Rebellion
12.1.2. The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
12.1.3.The Columbia University Uprising
12.1.4. The Paris "Days of May"
12.1.5. The Prague Spring and the Soviet Crackdown
12.1.6. The Second Kennedy Assassination
12.1.7. Women's Liberation
12.1.8. The Chicago Democratic Convention
12.1.9. The Mexico City Olympics
12.1.10. Apollo Eight
12.2.1. Che Guevara
Week Thirteen: Worldwide Roundup
12.2.2. Dominican Republic and Indonesia
12.2.3. The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X
12.2.4. Black Power
12.2.5. Black Panther Party
12.2.6. China's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
12.2.7. Hijackers and "Terrorists"
12.2.8. American Indian Movement
12.2.9. Soledad Brothers and the Attica Rebellion
12.2.10 Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
12.2.11 The Other 911
13.1.1. Sweden
Week Thirteen: The Right-Wing Backlash
13.1.2. Canada
13.1.3. Ireland
13.1.4 Japan
13.2.1. The New Right
Week Fourteen: The Lessons and Legacies of the Sixties
13.2.2. Goldwater
13.2.3. The "Southern Strategy"
13.2.4. Nixon in China
13.2.5. The Watergate Affair
13.2.6. Ronald Reagan