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Karey Pohn
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Many Modes of Expression
The 1960s were a richly diverse decade musically. While rock and roll was undoubtedly the star, other genres made major contributions. At
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Disney Does it All
The 1960s were a busy decade for Disney, including innovations in animation in two and three-dimensions, as well as other areas.
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Televisions’s Tamer Fare
Television was beginning to hit its prime in the 1960s, and remained a much more conservative medium than film.
Karey Pohn
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The Silver Screen—Sexier and Shadowier
Sean Connery starring as James Bond burst onto the screens with guns blazing in Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (196
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Broadway au natural
Many musicals and plays that would later make their way to Hollywood graced the Broadway stage before appearing on the silver screen, includ
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Innovations, Discoveries and New Views Illustrated
Americans reached new technological highs in the 1960s, as many things that had before been previously only imagined became a reality.
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Doug’s Daring Demonstration
Even in the mid-1960s the computer industry could not really wrap its head around Engelbart’s ideas, because they could not conceive of peop
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Doug’s Dream
Engelbart had been a radar technician during World War II and had come across Vannevar Bush’s article 1945 “As We May Think,” which was a ma
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Meet the Man Behind the Other Mouse
The year after Martin Luther King made his “I Have a Dream” speech, Doug Engelbart got funding for his dream.
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Space—The Final Frontier
The Space Race was on during the 1960s and the United States continued to lag behind. According to Jennings and Brewster (1998), the space
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