Thursday, February 4, 2010

Major Project Progress


To my great relief, I have finally decided upon a new area of focus for my history project; The renaissance of the sixties.
Through my project I hope to investigate what historians believe instigated the fast-paced change of the sixties. I will focus on central areas such as arts, science, society (drug use, anti-war movements, feminism) in order to fathom the reasons behind this new liberalism and sense of revolution. Additionally, I will attempt to decipher whether the sixties indeed experienced a higher rate of progress and change or if perhaps the ideal of the "swinging sixties" has been constructed by the way in which modern historians write their history. As well as this, I will attempt to discover whether the sudden increase in resources and greater availability of information in the sixties affected the writing of its history.

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