Professor Beverly Gage examines the 1960s in this Yale lecture, a decade she describes as bringing prosperity alongside violence and protest. The class surveys major trends and events of the era, including the civil rights movement and the resistance it provoked, situating them within the broader arc of postwar American history. Recorded in Yale's Battell Chapel as part of the DeVane Lecture series America at 250: A History, the lecture is part of a one time course tracing United States history from 1776 to the present across lectures by three Yale historians, continuing Gage's sequence from the early Cold War into the following decade.