Farber, Ed., The Sixties - From Memory To History

Abstract

Having lived through many of the events of the 1960s, having tried to teach a few generations of undergraduates about those events, and having read innumerable historical accounts of the decade and its aftermath, I did not approach the present volume with the anticipation of discovering any unique insights. It is a delight to report that my initial skepticism was without basis as The Sixties: From Memory to History, edited by David Farber, is a thoughtful collection of essays, written primarily by a generation of younger historians whose personal "memory" of the era is more distant than those who have heretofore written about the tumultuous 1960s.