Table of Contents

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction, 1968: A Year of Protest, Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham; Part 1: Politics of Protest; 1. The New Left: The American Impress, Doug Rossinow; 2. 1968 and the Fractured Right, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer; 3. The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and the Path to Permanent War, Andrew Preston; 4. Life Writing, Protest and the Idea of 1968, Nick Witham; Part 2: Spaces of Protest; 5. On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968, Daniel Matlin; 6. Centring the Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968, Stefan M. Bradley; 7. The Ceremony is About to Begin: Performance and 1968, Martin Halliwell; 8. 1968: A Pivotal Moment in Cinema, Sharon Monteith; Part 3: Identities and Protest; 9. 1968: The End of the Civil Rights Movement?, Stephen Tuck; 10. Gay Liberation and the Spirit of '68, Simon Hall; 11. The Women's Movement in 1968 and Beyond, Anne M. Valk; 12. Organizing for Economic Justice in the Late 1960s, Penny Lewis; Conclusion, The Memory of 1968, Stephen J. Whitfield; Index.

About the Author

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies and Head of the School of Arts at the University of Leicester. His authored books include Voices of Mental Health: Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000 (Rutgers University Press, 2017), Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970 (Rutgers University Press, 2013), American Culture in the 1950s (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Transatlantic Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).

Nick Witham is Lecturer in US Political History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is a historian of the twentieth-century United States with a focus on the politics and culture of protest and dissent since the 1960s. He is the author of The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: US Protest and Central American Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2015).

Reviews

'Few years have so stirred, divided, and haunted America as 1968: a war gone horribly wrong, revered leaders assassinated, ghettoes on fire, social movements oscillating wildly between hope and despair. The contributors to this stellar collection both recreate the intensity of that moment and incisively assess its significance for all that has happened since. Deeply probing, unsettling, and illuminating.' - Gary Gerstle, Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge