For What It’s Worth: Toward a New History of the Sixties

2014 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Craig Werner Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison   A scholar of literature, music, and cultural history, Craig Werner lays out a set of guiding principles for a new history of the nineteen sixties, a mythologized decade that is too often reduced to a set of contradictory ideological tropes. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities.