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Young demonstraters from Los Angeles in La Marcha Por La Justicia, 1971.

The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s

Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.
by Samuel Farber via Jacobin on June 29, 2020

Stymieing the People

A Review of "Design for the Crowd: Patriotism and Protest in Union Square."
by Thai Jones via The Metropole on June 3, 2020
Heavily armed police patrolling Los Angeles in the 1960s.

“No Matter How Different the Movements Were, the LAPD Targeted Every One of Them”

From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.
by Mike Davis, Jon Wiener, Meagan Day via Jacobin on May 29, 2020

The Forgotten Failures of the Great Society

A review of "Great Society: A New History," by Amity Shlaes.
by Fred Siegel via National Review on January 9, 2020

Why Were the 1970s So… Weird?

When the counterculture optimism receded, things got ugly.
by Erik Davis via Literary Hub on August 12, 2019

The Dual Defeat

Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.
by Michael Kazin via The Nation on October 18, 2018

Aquarius Rising

Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.
by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on September 6, 2018

Infiltrating the Left

The FBI has long tried to destroy socialist organizations, but its actions aren't limited to surveillance.
by Aaron J. Leonard, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on August 19, 2018

What Can We Learn from the Radical Campuses of 1968?

The struggle at universities was never a simple conflict of generations.
by Richard Vinen via Literary Hub on July 3, 2018
The April 1966 cover of “Ramparts," featuring a caricature of Madame Nhu dressed as a Michigan State University cheerleader

The University That Launched a CIA Front Operation in Vietnam

A Vietnamese politician and an American academic led Michigan State University into a nation-building experiment and pulled America deeper into war.
by Eric Scigliano via Politico Magazine on March 25, 2018

The 1968 Book That Tried to Predict the World of 2018

For every amusingly wrong prediction in “Toward the Year 2018,” there’s one unnervingly close to the mark.
by Paul Collins via The New Yorker on January 1, 2018
The Black Panthers and Young Patriots at a press conference.

The Panthers and the Patriots

The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.
by Michael McCanne via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

Activism in the US

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.
via Digital Public Library of America on April 1, 2013

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