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The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politicsThe assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics.50 years on, 'Reframing 1968' explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women's Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.14 new interdisciplinary essays investigate the legacy of modern protest movements in the United StatesGives you a micro-history of 1968, framed within a broader historical and political understanding of modern protestSpans political trends, social movements, public figures, ideologies and cultural channelsContributorsStefan M. Bradley, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA.Simon Hall, University of Leeds, UK.Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester, UK.Penny Lewis, City University of New York, USA.Daniel Matlin, King's College London, UK.Sharon Monteith, University of Nottingham, UK.Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, UK.Doug Rossinow, University of Oslo, Norway.Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago, USA.Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford, UK.Anne M. Valk, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA.Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA.Nick Witham, Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK.
Show moreThe first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politicsThe assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics.50 years on, 'Reframing 1968' explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women's Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.14 new interdisciplinary essays investigate the legacy of modern protest movements in the United StatesGives you a micro-history of 1968, framed within a broader historical and political understanding of modern protestSpans political trends, social movements, public figures, ideologies and cultural channelsContributorsStefan M. Bradley, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA.Simon Hall, University of Leeds, UK.Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester, UK.Penny Lewis, City University of New York, USA.Daniel Matlin, King's College London, UK.Sharon Monteith, University of Nottingham, UK.Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, UK.Doug Rossinow, University of Oslo, Norway.Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago, USA.Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford, UK.Anne M. Valk, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA.Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA.Nick Witham, Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK.
Show moreContents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction, 1968: A Year of Protest, Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham; Part 1: Politics of Protest; 1. The New Left: The American Impress, Doug Rossinow; 2. 1968 and the Fractured Right, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer; 3. The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and the Path to Permanent War, Andrew Preston; 4. Life Writing, Protest and the Idea of 1968, Nick Witham; Part 2: Spaces of Protest; 5. On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968, Daniel Matlin; 6. Centring the Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968, Stefan M. Bradley; 7. The Ceremony is About to Begin: Performance and 1968, Martin Halliwell; 8. 1968: A Pivotal Moment in Cinema, Sharon Monteith; Part 3: Identities and Protest; 9. 1968: The End of the Civil Rights Movement?, Stephen Tuck; 10. Gay Liberation and the Spirit of '68, Simon Hall; 11. The Women's Movement in 1968 and Beyond, Anne M. Valk; 12. Organizing for Economic Justice in the Late 1960s, Penny Lewis; Conclusion, The Memory of 1968, Stephen J. Whitfield; Index.
Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies and Head of the
School of Arts at the University of Leicester. His authored books
include Voices of Mental Health: Medicine, Politics, and American
Culture, 1970-2000 (Rutgers University Press, 2017), Therapeutic
Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970
(Rutgers University Press, 2013), American Culture in the 1950s
(Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Transatlantic Modernism
(Edinburgh University Press, 2005).
Nick Witham is Lecturer in US Political History at the Institute of
the Americas, University College London. He is a historian of the
twentieth-century United States with a focus on the politics and
culture of protest and dissent since the 1960s. He is the author of
The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: US Protest and Central
American Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2015).
'Few years have so stirred, divided, and haunted America as 1968: a war gone horribly wrong, revered leaders assassinated, ghettoes on fire, social movements oscillating wildly between hope and despair. The contributors to this stellar collection both recreate the intensity of that moment and incisively assess its significance for all that has happened since. Deeply probing, unsettling, and illuminating.' - Gary Gerstle, Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge
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