The "Swinging Sixties" was a time when music, style, and a hope for peace and freedom came together as a protest against authority and war. The new music with thoughtful lyrics provided youth with an escape from the everyday pressures of being a teenager. Technological advances allowed t...

The sixties were turbulent times for America, both domestically and abroad. During thesixties America witnessed the assassination of a president, the assassination of a civil rightsleader, a "conflict" in Vietnam, and a counterculture revolution among the youth. Thecounterculture would pea...

Frederick Jackson Turner THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken int...