The Sixties

Designed for courses in American History, The Sixties (1960 - 1969).

This concise history provides a comprehensive journey through the 1960s, a time of extraordinary change and turmoil when dominant values, relationships, institutions came under fire from dissenters determined to alter the course of public affairs and how they themselves lived. Pulitzer Prize winning historian Irwin Unger offers a brief, yet complete look at this unique time in American History, providing a overview of the people, events, and changes that took place.

A brief introduction to the people, events, and change of the 1960s.  Pulitzer Prize winning historian Irwin Unger offers a comprehensive look at this unique decade and the political, social, and cultural shifts that define it.

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Irwin Unger has been teaching American history for over forty years on both coasts. Born and largely educated in New York, he has lived in California, Virginia, and Washington State. He is married to Debi Unger and they have five children, now all safely past their college years. Professor Unger formerly taught at California State University at Long Beach, the University of California at Davis, and New York University. He is now professor emeritus at NYU.  Professor Unger’s professional interests have ranged widely within American history. He has written on Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and on the 1960s. His first book, The Greenback Era, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Since then he has written The Movement: The New Left and (with Debi Unger) The Vulnerable Years, Turning Point: 1968, The Best of Intentions (about the Great Society), LBJ: A Life, The Guggenheims, A Family History. He and Debi Unger are working on a biography of General George C. Marshall.