Curated by: Kelly A. McCusker

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...

The summer of 1967 was nicknamed the "Summer of Love" when
thousands and thousands of mostly young people converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. With summer upon us, learn about the Summer of Love as well as other events in the 1960s. The
Beatles, counterculture, hippies, rock and roll, art, and fashion as well as the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, antiwar protests, political assassinations, the first moon landing, and the Cold War.

The 1960s was a tumultuous decade with moments and movements that changed the future of the U.S. and the world.

  • Ebook
    Summer of Love

    Summer of Love: Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll

    by Jill D'Alessandro

    Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco's…

    Summer of Love

    Summer of Love: Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll

    by Jill D'Alessandro

    Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco's…

  • Ebook
    The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love

    The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love

    by Kenneth Womack

    As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the most momentous year in the life of the Beatles, the contributors to The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love perform wide-ranging analyses of the…

    The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love

    The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love

    by Kenneth Womack

    As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the most momentous year in the life of the Beatles, the contributors to The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love perform wide-ranging analyses of the…

  • Ebook
    The Hippies: A 1960s History

    The Hippies: A 1960s History

    by John Moretta

    This balanced consideration of the hippies succeeds in incorporating positive and negative assessments of this slice of the counterculture of the 1960s.

    The Hippies: A 1960s History

    The Hippies: A 1960s History

    by John Moretta

    This balanced consideration of the hippies succeeds in incorporating positive and negative assessments of this slice of the counterculture of the 1960s.

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    The Transatlantic Sixties

    The Transatlantic Sixties

    by Clara Juncker

    This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective.

    The Transatlantic Sixties

    The Transatlantic Sixties

    by Clara Juncker

    This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective.

  • Ebook
    A Hard Rain
    A Hard Rain

    A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost

    by Frye Gaillard

    Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life.

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    The Time it Was: American Stories from the Sixties
    The Time it Was: American Stories from the Sixties

    The Time it Was: American Stories from the Sixties

    by Karen Manners Smith

    What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period.

  • Streaming Video
    Summer of Love

    Summer of Love

    by Gail Doglin

    A look into the hippie revolution of San Francisco during the '60s, and how the free love and music turned into a life of drug use, violence, and broken dreams.

    Summer of Love

    Summer of Love

    by Gail Doglin

    A look into the hippie revolution of San Francisco during the '60s, and how the free love and music turned into a life of drug use, violence, and broken dreams.

  • Streaming Video
    In Love and War

    In Love and War

    by Joshua Seel

    By mid-summer 1964, events were taking place in the Gulf of Tonkin that would lead to the first open clash between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces.

    In Love and War

    In Love and War

    by Joshua Seel

    By mid-summer 1964, events were taking place in the Gulf of Tonkin that would lead to the first open clash between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces.

  • Streaming Video
    1960s Fashion

    1960s Fashion

    by Video Catalogue Co

    Original B&W fashion newsreels documenting the clothes and accessories of the 1960s. See the MOD sunglasses, mini-skirts, hats, plastic dresses, go-go boots and more looks from the swinging…

    1960s Fashion

    1960s Fashion

    by Video Catalogue Co

    Original B&W fashion newsreels documenting the clothes and accessories of the 1960s. See the MOD sunglasses, mini-skirts, hats, plastic dresses, go-go boots and more looks from the swinging…

  • Streaming Video
    The Sixties : Vietnam and Civil Rights
    The Sixties : Vietnam and Civil Rights

    A Biography of America. Episode 24, The Sixties : Vietnam and Civil Rights

    by Fred Barzyk

    Professor Scharff weaves the story of the Civil Rights movement with stories of the Vietnam War and Watergate to create a portrait of a decade.

  • Ebook
    The Sixties

    The Sixties

    by Terry H Anderson

    The Sixties is a stimulating account of a turbulent age in America.

    The Sixties

    The Sixties

    by Terry H Anderson

    The Sixties is a stimulating account of a turbulent age in America.

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    Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory
    Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory

    Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory

    by Oliver Gruner

    This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties.
     


Online Resources Highlights

The Sixties: Moments in Time

Use this The Sixties: Moments in Time Internet Resource

Overview of newsworthy happenings from the 1960s

Race Relations in America

Use this Race Relations in America Database

Explore three pivotal decades (the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s) in the struggle for civil rights in America.

A Photographic Trip Through the Summer of Love, 50 Years Later

Use this A Photographic Trip Through the Summer of Love, 50 Years Later Internet Resource

Photographs with descriptions from the summer of 1967.

Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975

Use this Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 Database

Encompassing music, society, art, and politics, and more, the collection includes photographs, ephemera, videos, memorabilia, manuscripts, scholar essays, and a chronology of the era.

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