On Our Own Americans in the Sixties Author:Douglas Miller On Our Own offers a comprehensive narrative history of American society, culture, politics, and institutions during this remarkable decade. The volume includes the Kennedy administration, the civil-rights revolution, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and the Movement, and then concludes with three chapters that discuss the decade's... more » aftermath and its legacies: the conservative counterrevolution of the Nixon era, the co-opting of the Movement, and the feminist and environmentalist movements that grew out of the 1960s.« less