The Sixties in America: From Rebellion to Rights to Commodity

The Sixties in America: From Rebellion to Rights to Commodity

Osher Online | This program is completed

U of A Fayetteville, AR 72701 United States

Online Through Zoom

Open to Current OLLI Members ONLY!

Monday, April 1, 2024-Monday, May 6, 2024

10:00 AM-11:30 AM on Mon

$65.00

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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?”


Class schedule: Live lectures will take place on Mondays via ZOOM 

         Live Lecture 1, Monday, 4/1/2024

Live Lecture 2, Monday, 4/8/2024

Live Lecture 3, Monday, 4/15/2024

Live Lecture 4, Monday, 4/22/2024

Live Lecture 5, Monday, 4/29/2024

          Live Lecture 6, Monday, 5/6/2024

    • As this class is delivered by the National Resource Center for OLLIs (NRC) at Northwestern University, you will receive a welcome email from osheronline@northwestern.edu.  The email will include your credentials (username & password) as well as a hyperlink to the Osher Online Website through which you will access your course website.
Rice, Jeff

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 pursued graduate work at the University of Edinburgh in African Studies after completing a dissertation entitled "Wealth Power and Corruption: A Study of Asante Political Culture". He returned to Northwestern full time in 2001 teaching in the History and Political Science Departments and became a Weinberg College Academic Adviser. He ‘officially’ retired from that position in August 2018 and 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.