The decade that remade America. Civil rights and Vietnam, the Great Society and the counterculture, the brink of nuclear war and the journey to the Moon — explore the events, culture, science and people of the 1960s.
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The events of the decade, its culture, and the people who lived through it.
timelineThe events of the decade in order, from the New Frontier to the close of the Sixties.
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cultureThe music, film, fashion and counterculture that defined the Sixties.
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peopleThe people of a decade of change — leaders, dreamers and ordinary Americans.
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The space race, technology, the economy and the statistics of the Sixties.
the space raceFrom the first Americans in orbit to the landing on the Moon.
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innovationThe inventions and breakthroughs of the Sixties.
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economyThe booming economy of the 1960s and the policies that shaped it.
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dataThe numbers behind the decade — population, economy and society.
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primary sourcesLandmark speeches and primary-source documents of the decade — JFK on Cuba, LBJ’s withdrawal and more.
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