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Dead Kennedys in the West: The Politicized Punks of 1970s San Francisco

The new punk generation made the hippies look past their prime.

by Lincoln A. Mitchell via Literary Hub on October 22, 2019

Made for Misfits: The Colorful History of the Black Leather Jacket

“Leather-laden outlaws struck fear into the hearts of civilians and cops alike, as they tore through towns with gleeful irreverence.”

by Lydia Sviatoslavsky via Collectors Weekly on October 2, 2019

The Misconception About Baby Boomers and the Sixties

Other than being alive during the 1960s, the baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the era's social and political upheaval.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on August 18, 2019

Fifty Years Ago, Hendrix’s Woodstock Anthem Expressed the Hopes and Fears of a Nation

It also inspired my own scholarship on the national anthem.

by Mark Clague via The Conversation on August 14, 2019

Why Were the 1970s So… Weird?

When the counterculture optimism receded, things got ugly.

by Erik Davis via Literary Hub on August 12, 2019

Cathy Gillies, Kitty Lutesinger, Sandy Good, and Brenda McCann, of the Manson Family, kneel on the sidewalk outside the Los Angeles Hall of Justice on March 29, 1971.

The Manson Family Murders, and Their Complicated Legacy, Explained

The Manson Family murders weren’t a countercultural revolt. They were about power, entitlement, and Hollywood.

by Aja Romano via Vox on August 7, 2019

What Could Go Wrong for Trump on July 4th? In 1970, Protests and Tear Gas Marred the Day.

"Honor America Day" was designed to showcase support for President Nixon at a time of bitter division.

by Ronald G. Shafer via Retropolis on July 2, 2019

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?

via Contingent on July 1, 2019

William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll

From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.

by Casey Rae via Longreads on June 11, 2019

Edmund White on Stonewall, the ‘Decisive Uprising’ of Gay Liberation

At what point does resistance become the only choice?

by Edmund White via Literary Hub on April 30, 2019

The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter

A lot has been written about the notorious concert, but so much of the language around it has been passive and exonerating.

by Sasha Frere-Jones via The New Yorker on March 28, 2019

How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices

The librarians who are setting out to make sure the histories of marginalized communities aren't forgotten.

by Rosie Knight via BuzzFeed News on December 30, 2018

Douglas Engelbart wearing an earpiece, sitting at a computer, in 1968.

The Future, Revisited: “The Mother of All Demos” at 50

How the ’60s counterculture gave birth to personal computers and the vast tech industry that builds and sells them.

by Andy Horowitz via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 8, 2018

The Most Important Album of 1968 Wasn’t The White Album. It Was Beggars Banquet.

It saved the Rolling Stones, altered the trajectory of music history, and turns 50 this week.

by Jack Hamilton via Slate on December 6, 2018

A woman dressed in steampunk fashion.

Steampunk for Historians

It's about time.

by Scott P. Marler via Perspectives on History on December 3, 2018

Painting of the mouth of a cave.

Down in the Hole: Outlaw Country and Outlaw Culture

Country music has often stood, as it were, with one foot in and one foot out of the cave.

by Max Fraser via Southern Cultures on October 16, 2018

Lithograph titled "Kiss Me Quick" showing a man and a woman kissing. The woman has her hands on the hats of two children.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.

by Jeffrey Escoffier, Christopher Mitchell via NOTCHES on October 11, 2018

Colorful illustration of Larry Norman, haloed by yellow.

The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock

The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.

by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on September 17, 2018

The Forgotten Story of Pure Hell, America’s First Black Punk Band

The four-piece lived with the New York Dolls and played with Sid Vicious, but they’ve been largely written out of cultural history.

by Cassidy George via Dazed on August 8, 2018

Elvis Presley performing to a crowd of fans reaching toward him

How Christianity Created Rock ’n’ Roll

Rock music owes much of its claim to coolness to the Christian faith.

by David Hajdu via Public Books on June 21, 2018

Working, Out

Homophobia at a CrossFit is a good time to remember that gym culture wouldn’t exist without queer people.

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela via Slate on June 20, 2018

John Wesley Harding at Fifty: WWDD?

Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.

by Anthony Chaney via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 13, 2018

An Oral History of Voguing from a Pioneer of the Iconic Dance

"This is not just a fad. This, for us, was a dance of survival, but it was also a social dance."

by Ja'han Jones via HuffPost on June 4, 2018

Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

1968: Year of Counter-Revolution

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.

by Todd Gitlin via New York Review of Books on May 8, 2018

Google Before the Invention of Google

What started the Information Age?

by John Markoff via Los Angeles Times on March 28, 2018

Where to Score: Classified Ads from Haight-Ashbury

From 1966-1969, the underground newspaper 'San Francisco Oracle' became exceedingly popular among counterculture communities.

by Jason Fulford, Jordan Stein via The Paris Review on March 14, 2018

Sex, Pong, And Pioneers

What Atari was really like, according to the women that were there.

by Cecilia D'Anastasio via Kotaku on February 12, 2018

In 1968, When Nixon Said "Sock It To Me" on 'Laugh-In,' TV Was Never Quite the Same Again

The show's rollicking one-liners and bawdy routines paved the way for cutting-edge television satire.

by Ryan Lintelman via Smithsonian on January 19, 2018

Shouldn’t You Be in California?

The western frontiers of national wellness culture.

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela via Boom California on January 9, 2018

Rage Against the Machine

An excerpt from a novel by Todd Gitlin that reimagines the violence outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

by Todd Gitlin via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018

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