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Tag Archives: The Sixties
What Makes a Good American Citizen?
(Note: This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News on September 30, 2017. I re-publish it today because of its continued relevance.) As a human body is only as healthy as its individual cells, so a civilization or … Continue reading
Song “Aquarius” Beamed Hope during Chaotic Sixties
(Note: This essay was originally published as “50 Years of ‘Aquarius,’” in the Newport Daily News on April 27, 2019.) It is quite a feat for a song to achieve the #1 position on the Billboard charts, let alone to … Continue reading
1968: High Water Mark of Turbulent 1960s
(This essay was originally published as “1968 was the high water mark in a decade of discord,” by the Newport Daily News on June 12, 2018.) Fifty years ago Sen. Robert Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in downtown … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1968, Robert Kennedy assassination, Tet Offensive, The Sixties
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Part IX: Citizenship in the Age of Donald Trump
(A version of this essay was originally published as “What Makes a Good Citizen?” in the Newport Daily News on September 30, 2017, and as “What Citizenship Means Keeps Changing,” on October 8, 2017, by the History News Network-online) This … Continue reading
Part VII: Citizenship Through the Ages
This is the seventh essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious since the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent years … Continue reading
Part VI: Citizenship and the New American Citizen in the Divisive Sixties
This is the sixth essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious since the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent years … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, American citizen, American citizenship, American civilization, American Pie, anti-Vietnam War movement, citizen, citizenship, civil rights movement, Colin Kaepernick, counterculture, Don McLean, Donald Trump, good old days in America, hippieism, history of citizenship, Movements of the Sixties, nuclear arms race, protest in America, SDS, Summer of Love, The Fifites, The Left, The Sixties, The Sixties in America, Thomas Jefferson, Todd Gitlin, Woodstock
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“Summer of Love” but Not for All
(This essay was originally published as “Summer of Love wasn’t for all” in the Newport Daily News on August 26, 2017.) The dissonant and divisive Sixties were a time when just about every code of behavior in American society was … Continue reading
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