The Sixties: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives, 1960-1974

The Sixties: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives, 1960-1974 is a collection of digitized primary source materials chronicling the 1960s, including diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Global events are covered, but the primary focus is the United States. Topics covered include civil rights; student activism; the Vietnam War; radical movements on the right and the left; law and government; the women’s rights movement and second-wave feminism; gay and lesbian rights; the environmental movement; the counter culture; sexual revolution; mass and underground media; arts, music, and leisure; and scientific and technological change.

Please note that some items may contain views, imagery, or terminology that may be inaccurate, biased, or offensive. 

This collection may be searched alongside other primary source collections in Global & International Studies Collection (Alexander Street).