Doris Kearns Goodwin’s New Memoir of the 1960s

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is on a media tour for her new book, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s. Her husband Richard was a speechwriter for the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson and Al Gore. She was a presidential scholar who became a confidante of President Johnson. NPR interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIJ6PDUMX3k NYT: She wasn't …

Japan In 1960 Was At A Crossroads. It Chose Democracy

Spectacles YouTube Channel describes itself as a "love letter to democracy...a new way of seeing politics and the world by sharing the stories that matter to democracy. We hope our work may help you better understand how democracy works, its biggest challenges, and why it's worth treasuring. brought to you by Harry and Philip, two …

Trump and Andrew Johnson Compared Themselves to Jesus

Donald Trump compares himself to historic martyrs Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela. He "is not the first president to compare himself to Jesus Christ. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson famously did, too...." Johnson, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln after the 16th president was murdered in April, 1865, was an egotistical, enigmatic man unpopular with …

In 1864, the U.S. Had the 37 Most Decisive Weeks in American History

55 Folks: "The story of William Tecumseh Sherman, his controversial role in the American Civil War, and the 37 weeks in 1864 that were the turning point for the nation." Gen. Sherman enacted a scorched-earth policy against the Confederates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HliG1HWD320&t=70s

Robert Kennedy’s Profound Visit to the University of Mississippi, 1966

REEL SOUTH, now in its eighth season on PBS, "reveals the South's proud yet complicated heritage, as told by a diversity of voices and perspectives, through the curation and distribution of feature-length and short documentaries." More. One episode focuses on Robert Kennedy's defiance of a speaker ban law to visit and speak to the University …

‘True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America’

Peter Juul: "America could use a lot more Hubert Humphrey—and more Hubert Humphreys—these days. That’s the main thought that kept running through my head reading James Traub’s excellent new biography, True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America. As a native Minnesotan, I may of course be biased; Humphrey stands alongside Prince, Bob Dylan, …

The American Century, From the 1940s to ?

My friend Bruce Johnson writes: "American civilization reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s. American music and American literature and American art were taken seriously all over the world.  American architecture and engineering arguably dominated the world. People all over the world listened seriously to the speeches of American politicians not just to predict what …

The Jim Crow Era: A Stain On America’s Past

Wondrium: "An African American named Homer Plessy predated Rosa Parks' famous refusal to comply with racist transportation laws by more than 60 years. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction for sitting in a whites-only train car in Plessy v. Ferguson, leading to the Jim Crow era. Discover hard history and how "separate but equal" was …

We Are the Heirs to Dr. King and the Movement

The mantle remains on our shoulders and those of our children. On the MLK Holiday, my wife and I listened to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech, delivered the night before he was killed in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968. Brilliant and so moving. Click to listen, read other …

A Mini-course: Integrating Schools in the South, Baby Boomers Recall Their Seminal Experiences in the 1960s, Early 1970s

The generation that graduated high school in the late 1960s or early 1970s has now reached retirement age. Many have attended their 50th reunions, and have begun to recall what the culture was like then, different from and similar to now. As members of the Baby Boom generation, they were the first to desegregate or …