RESOURCES
THE MAKING OF THE ANTHOLOGY
4-PAGE BROCHURE
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The times,
the students,
the challenge
THE CORE OF THIS LANDMARK WORK consists of the stories told by ninety people in their seventies who wrote about what they did in their twenties after World War II. They fact-checked their recollections with colleagues and in archives.
Their stories tell of the GI Generation of student leaders and organizations who transformed the landscape of U.S. higher education and laid the groundwork for social change in the last half of the twentieth century.
They created a voice for US students on the campus, national and world scenes. Their themes of social justice, lasting peace, racial integration, academic freedom and educational opportunity are portrayed in the book from points of view that vary on the basis of geography, religion, and political persuasion.
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"The great challenge of democracy is the challenge of civic engagement -- This fine book tells how this happened in wonderfully rich detail..." |
They put a human face on a pivotal time in American education: the era of the GI Bill and the transformation of student life, of desegregation of the campus and of social organizations - a time of the Cold War, the "Red Scare" and the creative engagement by students in civic and world affairs.
Catholic colleges for the first time joined a mainstream secular intercollegiate organization. The first African-American was elected president of an integrated national student organization. The conservative student movement emerged in the 1950's.
It is a social history in a form not elsewhere told.
Published by the American Council on Education / Praeger. Produced by the USNSA Anthology Project
