Biography of america 1960s history tv

3 major world events in the 1960s

The man was a hard-edged history professor, unsmiling but not humorless, ferociously intimidating to us freshmen. He would unfailingly begin his classes with a ritual. He would re-button his shirtsleeve, sit down, and fold his hands. You would be brought to attention by the precision and studied drama of these movements, knowing the power of the mind behind them.

1960s culture

I never missed his class, but I was sorely tempted one beautiful May day. Freshmen libidos were running hot, and the life of the mind was simply not all that compelling. The professor entered the room and went through his ritual, but with one difference. He sat on its front corner and leaned into the room. We will think about one war. We will think about what it was like to oppose that war when there was every reason to support it.

It was the most awful time of my life, and here is what it was like. A man and a memory. The personal infused with the universal, by a master teacher. A moment of illumination for a group of college students. Could this kind of experience be captured on video for college students as well as for a wider television audience?