1968

Putting the Latest 'Year of the Protester' Into Historical Perspective

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 03.02.2012

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Though 2011 was a precedent-setting and history-making year for protest in many, it was also one that conformed at many points to familiar patterns.

'Don't Shoot: We Are Your Children'

www.salon.com | Posted 11.30.2011

Conventional wisdom guru John Heileman suggested yesterday in New York magazine that the next phase of the Occupy Wall Street movement might be "about...

Lessons From 1968 for 2012

Jack Healey | Posted 12.13.2011

Jack Healey

2012 must be the year to unelect the status quo. If we stay on the current track, we will repeat the same mistakes from forty years ago by shifting the blame for our country's problems from one hand to the other.

Jagger, by Marc Spitz

J. Michael Welton | Posted 11.29.2011

J. Michael Welton

Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue is book that tells its story in a series of interludes, which makes perfect sense for readers who see the world as a procession of snapshots.

The Who Arrive Late, Beatles News Arrives Early, Central Park, August 1968

Binky Philips | Posted 08.31.2011

Binky Philips


The Who performed just once in Central Park on August 7th, 1968, as part of what was called The Schaefer Festival.

It Happened June 3, 1968: Andy Warhol Shot By Playwright (VIDEO)

Posted 11.15.2011

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A Call to Protest

Nicolas Niarchos | Posted 05.25.2011

Nicolas Niarchos

Police oppression in America is arguably worse than the proposed UK tuition hikes, but when tuition hikes happen in the US, nobody notices.

Lombardi: "An Imperfect Perfect Man"

William J. Arnone | Posted 05.25.2011

William J. Arnone

In the early '70s, I wrote a scathing critique of the decision by Fordham University, my alma mater, to name its new sports center after Vince Lombard...

Sam & Dave Take Me to School, 1968

Binky Philips | Posted 05.25.2011

Binky Philips

I never saw Alonzo Daniels' gun... but, I believed the rumor. The whole school just sorta knew that he carried a loaded .38. This was back in the days...

My Political Baptism by Fire: The Riotous Democratic Convention in Chicago, 42 Years Ago This Week

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Greg Mitchell

With a hot political season to come, I can't help recalling the first major political event I covered 42 years ago this week. It was the infamous Democratic convention in Chicago, when the conflict in the streets turned bloody.

King's Final 365-Day Odyssey

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Byron Williams

King's final year, though controversial to some and irrelevant to others, was an unwavering commitment to those on the underside of life.

Excerpt: You Wake Me Each Morning, 2010 Edition

Connie Lawn | Posted 05.25.2011

Connie Lawn

It was the summer of 1968, and I must have looked strange, even by sixties standards, in my gleaming white hard hat. I was the only field reporter covering Resurrection City.

Another Day at Columbia: Tuition Goes Up, But Life Goes On

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Sam Reisman | Posted 05.25.2011

Produced by HuffPost's College Reporting Team It's March. For Columbia University students, this means a number of things. It means that sophomores ...

That's The Way It Wasn't

Sam Leff | Posted 05.25.2011

Sam Leff

Some forty years after Walter Cronkite told it like it was and called the Chicago of 1968 "a police state," Tom Brokaw, A.O. Scott, and Andie Tucher told their own versions -- like it wasn't.

Anniversary: Chicago '68

Michael Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Kaplan

All things converged to one night: tonight, forty-one years ago. The police found the fuse and lit it.

Change the World? Give a Kid a Book

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

Kenneth C. Davis

She was the town's meter maid -- a plus-sized meter maid, and not "the most comely of maidens." One day after choir, she handed me a book, saying simply: "I think you will like this."

Wimbledon Tennis: Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim Updates the Greatest Sports Book Ever Written

Matthew DeBord | Posted 05.25.2011

Matthew DeBord

You wouldn't think it could be done, taking John McPhee's 1969 book Levels of the Game and using it to make something equally compelling. But Wertheim has, and that's his personal triumph.

The GOP Shall Rise Again! (Or Not)

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert J. Elisberg

Republicans must not take comfort from 1968. They must take it as a warning sign.

50 Years Later We Ask: When did the Cuban Revolution Die?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Yoani Sanchez

In 1975, the year I was born in Cuba, nothing remained of the rebellion that the older people remembered. We had neither long hair nor euphoria.

Making Sense of the Sixties: Reflections for the 40th Reunion of the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1968

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Stephen Mo Hanan

The dress, music, drugs and loose morals of the emerging counterculture must have looked to a Sixties puritan like a reversion to chaotic paganism.

How the Obama Election Transformed Historic Locations

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Wallis

Children of color, indeed of all colors, across America woke up on Wednesday morning not just to a new day, but a new world.

Hot Flashes From the End of the Trail

Alison Teal | Posted 05.25.2011

Alison Teal

I told Clark how much I admired him and his campaign and with tears streaming down his face, he said, "That was just a lucky moment in time for me. This, this is history."

Obama Wins Third Manassas

Dale Pendell | Posted 05.25.2011

Dale Pendell

Obama wins Third Manassas, takes Virginia; Pennsylvania key-- McCain's concession From the Goldwater Room echoes Lee On ...

Cesar Chavez at the Root of Obama's Campaign: Grassroots Latino Voter Outreach

Randy Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Randy Shaw

If Barack Obama's campaign wins on November 4th, LA should be identified as the birthplace of the grassroots voter outreach strategy that dramatically changed the political course of the US.

Ayers Attacks Are An Affront To Soldiers And Protesters Alike

Jean Vickers | Posted 05.25.2011

Jean Vickers

To assert that Obama "hangs around with terrorists" is an attempt to capitalize on the tumult of the 1960's without concretely linking that era to contemporary politics.