The People of This Generation The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia Paul Lyons "A major contribution to the historiography of the New Left in the United Sates. Through an impressively researched study of white student activism in Philadelphia during the 1960s and early 1970s, Paul Lyons explores and explains the successes and failures of the larger New Left."--Journal of American History At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as...
The People of This Generation The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia Paul Lyons "A major contribution to the historiography of the New Left...
In the midst of the Vietnam war, sit-ins, counter-culture, and campus rallies, the 1966 graduating class of a South New Jersey coast high school came of age on the margins of political and cultural upheaval. Rather than presenting the stereotype of Sixties youth scene, this study reveals this group to be conservative teenagers shaped by mainstream loyalties to God, Country, and Family. These "Coasters"white, middle-class, suburban baby-boomerswere spectators of rather than participants in the decade's activism. Yet, even as they were missed by the powerful currents of the times, their lives...
In the midst of the Vietnam war, sit-ins, counter-culture, and campus rallies, the 1966 graduating class of a South New Jersey coast high school came ...
This book offers a rare opportunity to read about how a scholar's teaching informs his research, in this case an examination of the nature of American conservatism. It is based on an interdisciplinary senior seminar Lyons taught in Spring 2006. His teaching log, including student comments from an electronic conferencing system, gives a vivid sense of the daily frustrations and triumphs. Lyons reflects on some of the most difficult issues in higher education today, such as how to handle racism and political passions in the classroom, as well as how a teacher presents his own political...
This book offers a rare opportunity to read about how a scholar's teaching informs his research, in this case an examination of the nature of American...
This book offers a rare opportunity to read about how a scholar's teaching informs his research, in this case an examination of the nature of American conservatism. It is based on an interdisciplinary senior seminar Lyons taught in Spring 2006. His teaching log, including student comments from an electronic conferencing system, gives a vivid sense of the daily frustrations and triumphs. Lyons reflects on some of the most difficult issues in higher education today, such as how to handle racism and political passions in the classroom, as well as how a teacher presents his own political...
This book offers a rare opportunity to read about how a scholar's teaching informs his research, in this case an examination of the nature of American...
