The Long 1960s: Did the Center Hold?
Week 1 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Turner Conference Room | Ages 14 and up
The mid-1950s to the mid-1970s witnessed extraordinary levels of social, political, and legal upheaval in the U.S.: from the civil rights movement, to Vietnam War protests, urban crime and unrest, assassinations, the women's movement, and Watergate. This course examines the sources and outcomes of these conflicts to ask, did the nation survive because the center held, or were there other dynamics at play? And, can this experience be instructive for our times?
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Donna Schuele
Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy, J.D., University of California, Berkeley; B.A., Mathematics and History, Case Western Reserve University. Member, State Bar of California. Faculty member, California State University, Los Angeles; formerly, University of California, Irvine (Lecturer of the Year, 2013). Judicial law clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians.
