Turn, Turn, Turn
The 1960s through the eyes of The Atlantic
A Safe, Easy, Illegal Abortion
In a 1965 article for The Atlantic, a woman wrote about a relatively seamless experience that was—and still is—largely limited to white women of a certain economic status.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Is There Room for a 'Southern Point of View' on Gay Marriage?
In 1960, an Atlanta writer criticized lingering Southern support for segregation in The Atlantic—but today, both sides of the gay-marriage debate want to claim the mantle of the civil-rights movement.
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AP Children’s TV—Left Behind
A 1969 article in The Atlantic is a reminder of how Sesame Street started a revolution—and how it failed to change America’s educational status quo.
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Reuters The Captivity of Motherhood
What has—and hasn’t—changed since The Atlantic published a 1961 essay on the plight of the housewife
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Bob Daugherty / AP Did Rock and Roll Pacify America?
In 1964, an Atlantic writer argued that the new youth sound was anything but revolutionary.
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Joe Samberg The Death of the Hippies
The photographer Joe Samberg remembers how drugs destroyed the Telegraph Avenue scene.
