kevin boyle begins his look at the 1960s with the story of 8 cahill who in 1961 organized his neighbors to deck their houses with american flags for the 4th of july. boyle was inspired by a photograph of cahill and his neighbors that he had seniors before in a book published by the national archives the book which reproduced more than 200 images from our photographic holdings was called the american image boyle's book about america in the 1960s. the shattering takes us a decade beyond the american image and focuses on the periods transformative conflicts the new york times calls the shattering a rich layered account of the 1960s history is not simply the unfolding of events, but it is the story of individuals behind the events in the shattering boil introduces us to the people who propelled the changes the washington post reviewed declares that boyle has a gift for synthesizing and translating the often dry arguments and this a formal scholarship into artful and empathetic storytelling. kevin boyle is the william smith mason professor of american history at northwestern university his p

ferio archivist of the united states as a pleasure to welcome you to today's conversation with kevin boyle and suzanne e smith about boyle's new book the shattering before we begin i'd like to tell you about two programs coming up soon on our youtube channel. on wednesday, january 26th at 1 pm. david mckean will tell us about his new book watching darkness fall which recounts the rise of the third reich in germany and the road to war from the perspective of four american ambassadors in key western european capitals, london berlin rome paris and mosco

political history of the united states during the 1960s with national book award-winning author, kevin boyle and later harvard university professor reid gulchberg provides a history of museums in the 19th century and the debates over curators collections and the importance of certain historical objects over others. watch all this and more beginning now on american history tv find a full schedule at c-span.org/history or consult your program guide. and now lectures and history with sage matthew. good morning, everyone. so this morning we're going to be talking about or rather. we will begin our conversation about neutrality that conversation will last over the course of several lectures. so we'll wrap up other countries' neutralities, but this morning we're going to really focus on what neutrality looked like and meant for the americans especially in the first half of the war. so the thing that i want you to understand the most and this is really vital because it's it's a very different understanding of neutrality than we have today. neutrality at the beginning of the war.