Cosmic Play

Many musicals and plays that would later make their way to Hollywood graced the Broadway stage before appearing on the silver screen, includ

Americans reached new technological highs in the 1960s, as many things that had before been previously only imagined became a reality.

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

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

The year after Martin Luther King made his “I Have a Dream” speech, Doug Engelbart got funding for his dream.

The Space Race was on during the 1960s and the United States continued to lag behind. According to Jennings and Brewster (1998), the space

While civil rights had been seeded at the turn of the Twentieth Century with the Niagara movement and WEB Dubois’s novel Up From Slavery, an

The 1960s began with the building of the Berlin Wall, separating East and West Berlin, presaging what a divided decade the 1960s would be.

During the 1960s a revolutionary spirit seemed to sweep through the Zeitgeist.

The 1960s were an amazing time—amazingly inspiring and amazingly violent.  As humanity soared to new heights, and landed a man on the moon,