I highly recommend this site! Designed for access to the “broadest possible range of audience,” the site is aimed at scholars, “sixties survivors,” and the casual surfer. It contains a compilation of primary and secondary sources for those interested in the 1960s. The coordinator of The Sixties Project is Kalí Tal, a lecturer in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Arizona.
This site is easily navigated and is keyword searchable. Only one broken link to the FAQ was encountered. The information is well organized. Since it is sponsored by Vietnam Generations, Inc. and the Institute of Advanced Technology in Humanities at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, it’s not surprising that despite its more general name its primary emphasis is on the Vietnam War. The site map points to different sections: Vietnam Generation, conference information, an e‐mail discussion list, the personal narratives project, special exhibits, a bookstore, and various online resources. Brief descriptions of these sections follow.
The Vietnam Generation: A Journal of Recent History and Contemporary Issues contains issues of this journal published between 1988 and 1996. Owing to lack of funding and understaffing, publication is on hold. Several issues are available online and are searchable by author and title. Hard copy versions may be purchased at the site bookstore, which is linked to Amazon.com for ordering purposes.
The Sixties Generation Conference was held annually from 1993‐95, and was sponsored by Vietnam Generation, Inc. Events scheduled for past conferences are listed. The compiler hopes to resume the conference in 2000.
Sixties‐L is a moderated discussion list sponsored by the Vietnam Generation, Inc., the Sixties Project, and the Institute of Advanced Technology in Humanities. Rules for subscribing and posting to the list are included. The list archives are available and searchable by thread, name, date, and keyword.
The personal narrative project contains individual, personal experiences of the sixties. Readers are invited to submit their own experiences using an online form or e‐mail.
Articles, autobiography and fiction, bibliographies, humor, poetry, and book reviews are included. As previously mentioned, the link to the FAQ is broken. The glossary has yet to be written. A collection of syllabuses from Sixties and Vietnam‐related university courses has been posted.
For the serious scholar, numerous primary source documents are posted. The pages contain a combination of speeches, papers, articles, and statements made during the 1960s by a variety of groups and movements. They are also searchable.
Lastly, the special exhibits consist of buttons, posters, and army clip art. An impressive addition to this page is a full‐text and graphics reproduction of the comic written by Julian Bond in 1967 after he was expelled from the Georgia House of Representatives for opposing the Vietnam War. Entitled Vietnam, this serious work, wonderfully illustrated, reflects Mr Bond’s opposition. It’s well worth a trip to the site just to see this.
In all, the site does an excellent job of handling the subject‐matter. It is presented in a matter‐of‐fact, even‐handed manner without editorialization. Commendable. This site is worthy of at least a short visit if you are at all interested in the 1960s.
