Daniel Webster College :: Library

Scope: The decade of the 1960s was a period of activism, promise and protest. Perhaps no other decade witnessed so many events that would impact society for years to come. Individual rights were brought to the forefront with the women's sexual revolution. Abortion and birth control were advocated. Youth protested the Vietnam War and the term hippie was coined. The decade ended on a note of despair with the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

OVERVIEW SOURCES:

REF E169.12.R53 2003 The 1960s

REF E 169.1.B664 1990 American Chronicle

REF E 169.12.A419 American Decades, 1960-1969

REF E 841.C575 2001 The Columbia Guide to American in the 1960s

REF D 840.P27 1983 Day by Day: The Sixties

REF E 161.T55 This Fabulous Century 1960-1970

REF PN 1993.5.U5B776 1990 The Films of the Sixties

REF DS 557.73.F76 1990 From Hanoi to Hollywood: the Vietnam War in American Film

REF E 841.S55 1999 The Sixties in America

REF E 174.5.W46 1991 The U.S.A.: A Chronicle in Pictures

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection (located upstairs in the library)

PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS

Bloom, Alexander. Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2001.

Bromell, Nicholas Knowles. Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Colby, Vineta. American Culture in the Sixties. New York: Wilson, 1964.

Collier, Peter. Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties. New York: Summit Books, 1990.

Collier, Peter. Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties. Landham, MD: Madison Books, 1989.

Dickstein, Morris. Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

Echols, Alice. Shaky Ground: The 60s and Its Aftershocks. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

Gottlieb, Annie. Do You Believe in Magic? Bringing the Sixties Back Home. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

Howard, Gerald. The Sixties: Art, Politics, and Media of Our Most Explosive Decade. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

James, David E. Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Javna, John. 60s!. New York: St. Martins Press, 1988.

Kimball, Roger. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000.

Kuznick, Peter J. and James Gilbert. Rethinking Cold War Culture. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

Linden-Ward, Blanche. American Women in the 1960s: Changing the Future. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.

Miller, Timothy. The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

Morrison, Joan. From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Newhouse, Thomas. The Beat Generation and the Popular Novel in the United States, 1945-1970. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2000.

OBrien, Geoffrey. Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties. New York: Viking, 1988.

O'Neil, Doris C. Life--the '60s. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

United States Presidents Commission on National Goals. Goals for Americans; Programs for Action in the Sixties. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1960.

Warlaumont, Hazel G. Advertising in the 60s: Turncoats, Traditionalists, and Waste Makers in Americas Turbulent Decade. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001.

NOTABLE FICTION

Baldwin, James. Another Country. New York: Laurel, 1962.

Barth, John. Giles Goat-Boy. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Books, 1987.

Bellow, Saul. Herzog. New York: Viking Press, 1964.

Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land. New York: Putnam, 1961.

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Dell Publishing, 1990.

Hersey, John. The Child Buyer. New York: Knopf, 1960.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest: A Novel. New York: Penguin Books, 1976.

Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960.