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What We Choose to Remember: Challenging Narratives of 1968
Half a century after the ‘year that changed the world’, what have we forgotten?
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What happened before April 4th 1968
What happened before April 4th 1968
Everyone knows that on April 4th, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the Lorraine Motel. King was in…
Shannon M Fitzgerald
Apr 23, 2018
Fighting Racial Injustice: The American Indian Movement
Fighting Racial Injustice: The American Indian Movement
Houses, land, and culture all taken away in the blink of an eye. The Native Americans faced centuries of troubled interaction with their…
Hilton Weeks
Apr 19, 2018
Protecting Student Free Speech in 1968: How Tinker Helped Student Protests
Protecting Student Free Speech in 1968: How Tinker Helped Student Protests
“Students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.” -Tinker
Casandra Sobczak
Apr 19, 2018
Representing Blackness in Television: Important but Forgotten
Representing Blackness in Television: Important but Forgotten
What You Weren’t Supposed to Remember
Destiny Kennedy
Apr 19, 2018
Mexico City’s Provocative Power Movement
Mexico City’s Provocative Power Movement
Mexico saw a great number of ordeals during the year of 1968. Before the Summer Olympic Games could begin in Mexico City, the year began…
Christopher Jakubik
Apr 18, 2018
SUNY Fredonia in the Late-Sixties
SUNY Fredonia in the Late-Sixties
How did the events of 1968 impact our small-town campus? In more ways than you might expect
Sam McDougal
Apr 18, 2018
The French Insurrection
The French Insurrection
May Movement of 1968
Veronica A Arce
Apr 18, 2018
The Apollo 8 Mission: A Hopeful End to 1968
The Apollo 8 Mission: A Hopeful End to 1968
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark,There is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from…
Tanner Williams
Apr 17, 2018
Night of the Living Dead, Year of the Living Violence
Night of the Living Dead, Year of the Living Violence
George Romero and production company Image Ten’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead is much more than the beginning of the modern zombie…
Kayla M Noll
Apr 17, 2018
The Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement
How the creation of a movement centered around black art and tradition influenced a culture in America
Kassandra Kum
Apr 17, 2018
1968 For Your Freedom and Ours
1968 For Your Freedom and Ours
The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Red Square Demonstration
Carly A Strauch
Apr 17, 2018
Student Protests in Poland in 1968
Student Protests in Poland in 1968
How censorship sparked a movement
Taylor P Mulligan
Apr 17, 2018
Race in the 1968 Academy Awards
Race in the 1968 Academy Awards
At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier became Hollywood’s first major black star, having become…
Harry Sheridan
Apr 17, 2018
“Star Trek”: The Future Generation
“Star Trek”: The Future Generation
In 1968, protests and riots surged all over the world for a multitude of reasons that took hold years before. From the modernist ideas…
S. B. Mitchelle
Apr 17, 2018
The Context of Construct: On Barthes and Postmodernism
The Context of Construct: On Barthes and Postmodernism
1968 publications were emblematic of a shift in ideologies, values, and motives.
Benjamin Anderson
Apr 17, 2018
Protest and Minority Theatre in 1968
Protest and Minority Theatre in 1968
Hair, guerrilla theatre, and artistic movements abroad
Caroline Schettler
Apr 17, 2018
How American Journalism Changed in 1968
How American Journalism Changed in 1968
Walter Cronkite and his statement on the Tet Offensive
Emma J Patterson
Apr 17, 2018
Robert Kennedy and His Troubled Relationship with Civil Rights
Robert Kennedy and His Troubled Relationship with Civil Rights
Robert Kennedy Deep in Thought: Photo Credit: agabond.wordpress.com
Ian Wetzel
Apr 17, 2018
The Anti-War Protests in Japan, 1968
The Anti-War Protests in Japan, 1968
Twenty years after that moment in 1945, the mushroom clouds and exploding sounds still appeared in her dreams. Nagoya Misao was only…
Yue Wang
Apr 17, 2018
The Columbia Student Protests of 1968: What you may not know
The Columbia Student Protests of 1968: What you may not know
When many individuals think of the Columbia Student protests they think of a monolithic protest mounted in opposition to the Vietnam War by…
Pax Lillin
Apr 17, 2018
Feminism in 1968
Feminism in 1968
“In short, feminism, which one might have supposed as dead … is again an issue. Proponents call it the Second Feminist Wave, the first…
Alijah Fox
Apr 17, 2018
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