Our class on America in 60s will ask some simple but also complex questions like:  why did people rebel when they did, who rebelled and who didn’t, what came out of the rebellion, and did it cause the rise of conservative politics in the US?  We will look at: Civil Rights, Vietnam, the rise of Feminism (round 2), the Green Movement (in which NU played a key part), and the exit of the traditional unionized working class from the Republican Party.  We will begin with “When did the 60s start and when did they end?”

Jeff Rice is an Emeritus Senior Lecturer in Political Science. He has been at Northwestern since 1968 as an entering freshman and has been associated with the University in one way or another since then. He is presently teaching full-time in Political Science. His courses have included West African History, History of the 60's in the U.S., Marx & Weber, Politics of Africa, Military Strategy, the Politics of Famine, Student Protest and Free Speech, and Africa in Fact, Fiction and Film and most currently a first-year class on free speech and student politics as well as a large lecture class on the politics of capitalism in contemporary America.  

Click here for an overview video of this course.