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How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music

How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music

Lucy Sante on the Poetic Evolution of Mid-Century America's Folkloric Bard

By Lucy Sante | October 24, 2023

The Revolution Will Be Televised: How Mass Media Made Mass Protest

The Revolution Will Be Televised: How Mass Media Made Mass Protest

Vincent Bevins on the History and Development of Contemporary Social Movements

By Vincent Bevins | October 18, 2023

How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

Drew Gilpin Faust on the Gradual Radicalization of Anti-War Student Activism

By Drew Gilpin Faust | August 24, 2023

More Than Just A Pretty Face: On the Multifaceted Marianne Faithfull

More Than Just A Pretty Face: On the Multifaceted Marianne Faithfull

Elizabeth Winder Considers the Women Behind The Rolling Stones

By Elizabeth Winder | July 13, 2023

Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

My Life in Pictures Talks to Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life">The Author of My Life in Pictures Talks to Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life

By The Literary Life | April 14, 2023

How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon

How Bob Dylan Became a Counterculture Icon

Aaron J. Leonard on the Political Education of One of America’s Finest Folk Musicians

By Aaron J. Leonard | February 27, 2023

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How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

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The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

By Richard Bradford | January 17, 2023

Meet the Nonconformist Designer Who Revolutionized 1960s Fashion

By Federico Chiara | December 19, 2022

How Community Organizers and Business Leaders Came Together to Improve Bedford-Stuyvesant

How Community Organizers and Business Leaders Came Together to Improve Bedford-Stuyvesant

Franklin A. Thomas on the Complex Alliance Between Activists and the Political Establishment in 1960s New York City

By Franklin A. Thomas | December 15, 2022

Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

“A book I didn’t like, and for years ignored, had opened new possibilities for people I admired.”

By Robert Pinsky | October 13, 2022

The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

Alice Sedgwick Wohl on Her Sister’s Transformation From Model To Icon

By Alice Sedgwick Wohl | August 19, 2022

How CCR, “The Boy Scouts of Rock and Roll,” Took California and the Country by Storm

How CCR, “The Boy Scouts of Rock and Roll,” Took California and the Country by Storm

John Lingan on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Unique Blend of Traditional and Progressive Sensibilities

By John Lingan | August 9, 2022

We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

Andrew Keen on Why We Remain Prisoners of History

By Andrew Keen | August 5, 2022

Lurid, Offensive, Troublesome: On the Rise of “Underground Comix”

Lurid, Offensive, Troublesome: On the Rise of “Underground Comix”

Brian Doherty Looks Back at the Rebellious Illustrators of the 1960s

By Brian Doherty | June 15, 2022

When Sidney Poitier Went to the Moscow Film Festival

When Sidney Poitier Went to the Moscow Film Festival

George Stevens, Jr. on Cold War Cultural Diplomacy Behind the Iron Curtain

By George Stevens, Jr. | May 19, 2022

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