HISTORY
“EACH GENERATION OF AMERICANS RIGHTFULLY DEMANDS A NEW ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PAST” RONALD C. WHITE LINCOLN: A BIOGRAPHY. … IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
THE LITTLE ROCK NINE 1960
In the beginning of 1957 when I was 11 – still trying to smile like Elvis – nine black students – the Little Rock Nine – had to be escorted by 101st Airborne to gain entrance to the school. Eisenhower announced that it was impermissible for a state to defy the orders of the U.S. […]
BOB DYLAN “L0NESOME DEATH OF HATTIE CARROL” 1963
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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1962
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WOODSTOCK NATION 1969
Hyde Park had been the largest outdoor concert ever held but within months it was eclipsed by Woodstock. There the up-and-coming, down-and-out, long-haired, freaky, and high, all showed up and for four days camped outside and listened to the music. Except for the Big Three (Dylan, The Stones, The Beatles), everyone who was anyone in […]
MAN WALKS ON THE MOON 1969
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The BEATLES ARRIVE IN AMERICA 1964
http://youtu.be/-5opFHD9cXo February 7th, 1964 All copyrights remain with original rights holders. This video is a link from You Tube.
JOHN ADAMS by David McCullough
“In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. A foot or more of snow covered the landscape, the remnants of a Christmas storm that had blanketed Massachusetts from one end of the province to the other. Beneath the snow, after […]
Theodore Roszak MAKING OF A COUNTER CULTURE 1969
Photo: Robert Altman Even before our world view guides us to discriminate between good and evil, it disposes us to discriminate between real and unreal, true and false, meaningful and meaningless. Before we act in the world, we must conceive of a world; it must be there before us, a sensible pattern to which we […]
David McCullough JOHN ADAMS
David McCullough’s JOHN ADAMS was the book that got me started on AMERICAN STORY. “Of course, before you can care about any history you have to connect with it, and for most of my life I wasn’t connected at all. American history felt as lifeless as the faces on Mount Rushmore. The American Revolution? A […]
