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APUSH-31-B-4
The New Left and the Counterculture
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Cultural Revolutions
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The Subversive Fifties
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Relevant transcripts: Resource Type: Classroom Simulation In this simulation of a television talk show, students are required to assume the roles of present-day talk-show moderators as well as of individuals active during the 1960s. The students are to debate, in character, the legacy of the 1960s—the impact it has had on American politics and society up to the present day. The Legacy of the Counterculture Resource Type: Point-Counterpoint The New Left Resource Type: Point-Counterpoint Primary Source Analysis: The Sixties Resource Type: Teaching Activity Primary Source Analysis: Protest Music Resource Type: Teaching Activity Primary Source Analysis: Nixon and Vietnam Resource Type: Teaching Activity Democracy: Limitations and Possibilities Resource Type: Document-Based Question During the 1960s, a series of widely disparate protest movements emerged in the United States. While the antiwar movement directed against U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War appeared to be the most salient, many others as well expressed discontent with American government and society. In this question, students are asked to look at a variety of groups—including women, African Americans, and ethnic minorities—many of whose members felt marginalized or underrepresented, became politically active, and helped to establish social movements dedicated to the advancement of their communities. Students can use these documents to determine the degree to which different groups sought to redefine American democracy and make it more inclusive. Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source Allen Ginsberg, in a photograph taken at his enrollment in Columbia University (1943). Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source While a student at Columbia University, Allen Ginsberg took courses with Lionel Trilling, the great literary scholar. Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, fellow Beats, listen to Allen Ginsberg read poetry at Columbia University (1959). Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source Cover from a 1959 edition of Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. This collection was first published by City Lights Books in 1956. Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source Allen Ginsberg at home (1966). Environmental Critique Resource Type: Primary Source Rachel Carson, author and environmentalist, at her typewriter (1952). Environmental Critique: DDT Resource Type: Primary Source Cover of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962), which exposed data on the harmful effects of DDT and other chemical pesticides. Environmental Critique: Pollution and Health Resource Type: Primary Source Early ban-the-bomb protest outside the United Nations. America Since 1945—E-Seminar 4, The Subversive Fifties Resource Type: E-Seminar In The Subversive Fifties, the fourth e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, the eminent historian Alan Brinkley discusses a variety of early counterculture movements—literary, social, and environmental—whose origins date back to the 1950s and early 1960s. He also covers the roots of the civil-rights movement, discussing the Montgomery bus boycott, in which Martin Luther King Jr. first gained national attention. The Counterculture Resource Type: Document-Based Question Although the decade of the 1950s deserves its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity, seeds of social discontent nevertheless permeated American society. This carefully crafted DBQ focuses on the intellectual and artisitic critics of the affluent society, as well as the origins of the women's and civil-rights movements. | |
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