Major Project Progress: Profiles of Major Historians

Profiles of the Major Historians Used in my Project Thus Far:

Todd Gitlin
Source used: The Sixties: Days of Hope, Years of Rage  (1987)
History:

• In the 1960s, Gitlin was a political activist.

• In 1963 and 1964, Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

• He helped organise the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War on April 17, 1965 (25,000 participant)
• He helped organise the first civil disobedience directed against American corporate support for the apartheid regime in South Africa (a sit-in at the Manhattan headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank) on March 19, 1965.

Nick Brommell
Source used: Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s.(2000)
History:

• Nicholas K. Bromell (Ph.D. Stanford 1987) is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
• His fields of expertise include American popular culture and American intellectual history.  
• Born in 1950 in rural Virginia - A teenager throughout the 60s.
• Taught at Harvard and Princeton 

Godfrey Hodgson
Source used: America in our Time: From WWII to Nixon -- What Happened and Why. (1976)  
History:

• British historian who graduated from Oxford
• In 1956, was invited to stay in Montgomery US by a friend. "The first Sunday in Montgomery, we went to church with John, and Dr. King was the preacher. We met and talked. King had just come to national attention because of the bus boycott and because his house had just been firebombed."
• From 1956 to 1959 worked as a junior reporter for The Times in London. 
• On the first day of 1960 went to work for The Observer, and in 1962 sent me to Washington as a correspondent until 1965.
• An expert on American culture and politics - lived through the decade but NOT as a teenager

George Lipsitz
Source used: Essay entitled "Who'll Stop The Rain: Youth Culture, Rock 'n' Roll, and Social Crises" (1994)
History:

• An American Studies Scholar and a Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• He is a lead scholar in social movements, urban culture, inequality, the politics of popular culture, and Whiteness Studies.

Theodore Roszak
Source used: The Making of a Counterculture Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition. (1968)
History:

• Born in 1933 - Would be 35 by 1968 - Not a part of the "youthful opposition"
• is professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay.
• Roszak received his B.A. from UCLA and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. 
• He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, and San Francisco State University before joining California State University. 
• During the 1960s, he lived in London, where he edited the pacifist newspaper Peace News ( a highly political magazine).  ^.

David Farber
Source used: An essay entitled "The Intoxicated State/ Illegal Nation: Drugs in the Sixties Counterculture" from the collection "Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960's and 70's" (2001) AND "The Sixties: From Memory To History" (collaboration of essays which he edited) (1994)
History:
Education:

• 1979 University of Michigan, B.A. with high honors and distinction, History and English
• 1981 University of Chicago, M.A. with honors, American history
• 1985 University of Chicago, Ph.D., American History (Well after the 60s - objective?)

 Teaching positions:

• Professor, History, Temple University, July 2004 
• Professor, History, University of New Mexico, January 1997 - June 2004
• Assistant Professor, History, Barnard College, Columbia University, July 1990 - December 1996
• Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Barnard College, Columbia University, July 1989 - June 1990
• Visiting Assistant Professor, History, University of Kansas, January 1988 - May 1989
• Assistant Professor, History, University of Hawaii, August 1986 - December 1987

Gerard DeGroot
Source used: The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscope History of a Disorderly Decade (2008)
History:

• Teaches 20th Century British and American History at the University of St Andrews School of History (since 1985)
• An American by birth, de Groot came to the UK in 1980.Lived through the 60s in America? Yet detached?

Jay Stevens
Source Used:  Storming Heaven: LSD and The American Dream (1998)
History: 

• is a journalist, social historian, and novelist living in Vermont. (It was very difficult to find details on Stevens so I have emailed his website).