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Experienced and remembered as a period of cultural revolution, social disillusionment, and civil unrest, the 1960s and early 1970s saw a vast variety of movements fueled by anger at political developments and an emerging and renewed sense of injustice within the spheres of political, economic and social life. In this seminar we will take a closer look at and explore the emergence, growth, and legacy of the New Left and Counter Culture, the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power, the ambiguity of the Second Wave feminist movement(s), the struggle for the liberation of LGBTQ+ people, El Movimiento, as well as the fight for rights of Native Americans. In the praxis-oriented frame of the seminar, students will learn how and along which lines these movements can be historically analysed and compared. With the help of a variety of primary and secondary sources students will be trained to raise critical questions concerning form, intent, and effect of historical (re)sources and will be asked to share their insights in discussion, presentations, and written assignments.