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dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Kevin A
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-19T06:34:07Z
dc.date.available2014-05-19T06:34:07Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationGarcia, K.A. 2013. The sixties in the United States in historical perspective. Yesterday & today, 10:175-181, Dec. [http://www.sashtw.org.za/index2.htm] [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/5126]en_US
dc.identifier.issn2223-0386
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/10531
dc.description.abstractThe decade of the 1960s in the United States is commonly viewed and taught as a series of traditional dichotomies, white vs. black, male vs. female, liberal vs. conservative, communist vs. anti-communist. Recent American scholarship on this period reveals a much more complex interplay of forces and movements. President John F. Kennedy’s government was attacked for its policy toward the Soviet Union and communism in general, from both the right and the left. Political conservatism witnessed a revival at the expense of the then-dominant liberal culture. Martin Luther King promoted an economic and social agenda that went well beyond the vision of “I Have a Dream”. Together, these forces enacted a second American “Civil War”, which was a much more complex struggle than is commonly understood or taught. The History educator dealing with USA in the FET history curriculum is exposed to some interesting information to be utilised and debated in classrooms.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West Universityen_US
dc.subjectCivil Waren_US
dc.subjectLiberal (liberalism)en_US
dc.subjectConservativeen_US
dc.subjectLeft (left-wing) anti-communisten_US
dc.subjectCoalitionen_US
dc.subjectNew Dealen_US
dc.subjectUSAen_US
dc.subject1960’sen_US
dc.subjectHistory curriculumen_US
dc.titleThe sixties in the United States in historical perspective.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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