OSHER 800 - The Way We Were: The Sixties

Beginning with the end of the Eisenhower Era and the election of John F. Kennedy to the presidency, progressing through the civil rights revolution, Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society," high idealism, and social/cultural upheaval, the decade of the 1960s represented much of the best and worst that is America. Through assassinations, urban riots, a nasty war in Southeast Asia, and the election of Richard Nixon, the decade left an indelible mark on those who lived through it and is worth re-examining forty years later. Brief lectures will be followed by ample time for class discussion.