USA

This history, or wound, is still open because the conflicts that burst open during 1968 and the years immediately preceding and following went to the heart of American identity. By Todd GitlinMore ...

I was 27 years old as 1968 the year unfolded. When the decade began, I was the first in my family to attend a university, and my non-conformist instincts led me to the campus paper and the sociology department at the University of Michigan. While pursuing an institutional career, I was a follower of Jack Kerouac as well, whose On The Road was published in my senior year, 1957.More ...