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This dissertation engages one of the most contentious issues about art in the wake of Jackson Pollock: a shift away from painting to theater in order to revolutionize and expand the realm of art. Allan Kaprow, a relentless advocate and producer of happenings during the 1960s, st…

In the late 1960s and 1970s, thousands of young black, white, Asian, and Latino radicals from diverse class backgrounds concluded that a deep and long-lasting transformation of the nation's politics required them to concentrate their organizing efforts on worksites and within tr…

The transformation of Jewish political identity over the three decades following the Second World War can best be understood through an investigation of the complex causal relationships between Jewish Americans, the American political mainstream, and other American political and…

Storming Hillbilly Heaven is a history of the Young Patriots Organization, a radical group composed primarily of white southern migrants to Chicago who operated in the Uptown neighborhood during the late 1960s and the early-1970s. The Young Patriots are most famous for their par…