A comprehensive look at the 1960s, which had the Vietnam War, a sexual revolution, a feminist revolution, the Kennedy era, scientific advancements, exploding ghettos, freedom riders, and other important changes in music, art, literature, science, politics, and civil rights.

Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We cant agree on what makes America special. We cant even agree that America is special. Were coming to the point that we cant even agree what the word America itself means. {28}Disintegrationists

Presents a comprehensive history of conspiracy theories in American culture and politics, from the colonial era to the War on Terror. It is a history of America's demons that stretches from the seventeenth century to today, and lays out five conspiracy narratives that recur in American politics and popular culture. 1693: Cotton Mather suggests that the spirits attacking Salem are allied with the colony's human enemies. At their "Cheef Witch-meetings,"...

Text and pictures highlight the main events of the 1960s.

Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.

"A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice... Authors Hill and Brewster weave some of the most pivotal recent moments in the country's racial divide--the killings of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and the harassment of Christian Cooper--into their historical context. In doing so, they reveal the common thread between these harrowing incidents:...

Examines how the educations of America's first four presidents, and in particular their scholarly devotion to ancient Greek and Roman classics, informed the beliefs and ideals that shaped the nation's constitution and government.