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American History · A Decade of Change

The Sixties

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.

1960→1969
A decade of change
7
Topics to explore
Moon
Reached in 1969

Begin Here

Start with the Story

The events of the decade, its culture, and the people who lived through it.

The Decade in Depth

Science, Economy & Society

The space race, technology, the economy and the statistics of the Sixties.

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