SECTION SIX

Brave New World

The use of the atomic bomb in Japan all but finalized the Allied victory in World War II. However, it fundamentally changed the way people thought of war.  When the Soviet union began manufacturing their own bomb, it fundamentally changed the way people thought of Russia, or alternative ideals in general.  Paranoia spread throughout the country, these feelings were manifested in the Red Scare, and masked by growing prosperity. While communist witch hunts permeated the educational system, ironically so did the civil rights movement.  Americans were pushed into an age where the clear lines of the pre-war world were disappearing in exchange for shades of abstraction. In the 1960's there was a war with a draft, assassinations, and again, ironically, an increasing awareness of the wrongs of society amongst the youth. Within this section one will learn how Dickinson reflected these national trends, and was along with
the rest of the nation struggling to identify itself in an amorphous time.
The Education of the Bomb 
by David Aronson

Dickinson 1959-1975
by Jillian Ravenscroft

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