nineteen sixties

Paints a portrait of the African-American experience in the changing decade of the 1960s through the lives of restaurant owner Memphis Lee and the people who live in his Pittsburgh block, which is scheduled for demolition.

Dawes Williams struggles to understand the larger mysteries of life, his family, and literature in his small Iowa town during the 1960s.

Examines the lasting effects of the political, social, economic, artistic, and cultural events which defined the 1960s.

Meg is determined to keep St. Catherine's Spring Fair from closing due to lack of attendance, but the fair faces steep competition from a Bob Dylan concert.

Looks at sexual attitudes in the 1960s, the feminist movement, sex research, pornography, the gay pride movement, abortion, and sexual behavior.

Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.

Examines the events of the 1960s in the United States through firsthand accounts from letters, speeches, and newspaper articles, and includes introductory essays, a chronology, and excerpts from significant documents of the decade.

In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.

As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. Features historic quotations and photographs.