• Social Protest in the 1960s
• Origins
• Deeper currents of American protest
• The "Red Left" in America
• The Labor Movement
• American Communists
• "New Deal" Progressivism
• The "Beats:" San Francisco in the 1950s
• Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs
• Ken Kesey: A 1960s off-shoot?
• Stanford student
• "The Merry Pransksters"
• The "Baby Boom" generation
• Flashpoints around 1960
• McCarthyism and the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC)
• The transformation of American Universities after 1945
• Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University
• The perceived conformity of Post-War American culture
• Reaction against Suburbia
• Eichler and "Aerospace Modernism in Silicon Valley" (Blue Sky Dream, Ch. 2, esp. pp. 45-55)
• The Civil Rights Movement
• Events and Dates
• Key Themes
• Question authority
• Personal Liberation: Sexual, Political, Ethical
• "The Pill" and the Sexual Revolution
• Carl Djerassi and the "Stanford Connection"
• The Women's Movement
• The Drug Culture
• Timothy Leary: "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out"
• Abbie Hoffman and another history of LSD
• The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history of LSD
• The Ecology Movement
• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)
• Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (1968)
• Alternative Thinking and Lifestyles
• Social Change: violent revolution, non-violent protest, or countercultural alternative?
• Technology and the Counterculture
• Stewart Brand
• Editor, The Whole Earth Catalog (1968-1971)
• National Book Award (1972)
• Film Crew, Doug Englebart's San Francisco Computer Demonstration (1968)
• "Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums," Rolling Stone (December, 1972)
• First use of the term "personal computer"
• Founds The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (The WELL) in 1985
• First on-line chat room/bulletin board
• Ted Nelson
• Computer Lib (1974)
• First use of the term "hyper text"
• Lee Felsenstein
• Founding Member and Director, The Home Brew Computer Club (HBCC) (1975-1986)
• Bob Lash's Memoir about the HBCC
• His Current Resume
• A good feature story about Felsenstein and the computing counterculture
• "Radical Nerds: The '60s Had Free Love; The '90s Have Free Information," The New York Times  (Aug. 30, 1996)
• The People's Computer Company (PCC)
• The PCC Alumni Page
• The PCC Today
• "Big Brother:" IBM, the Nemesis of the Technology Counterculture
• The IBM Song Book (1931)
• Lyrics
• "We are from IBM" (1968)
• Legacies
• The Visionary Prophet
• The Hacker
• The Revolutionary Entrepreneur

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