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From the students who challenged their schools’ military connections and the tortured set up of American TV’s first interracial kiss to the roots of Silicon Valley and the beginning of the end of the “traditional” American family. What was just heat? What brought light, too?

  1. Heat and Light Trailer Phillip Martin 1:28
  2. Revolution Starts on Campus Stefan M. Bradley, Michael Kazin 33:05
  3. Fear of a Non-nuclear Family Natasha Zaretsky 28:33
  4. An Interracial Kiss – on Another Planet Matthew Delmont 23:41
  5. Detroit is Burning Jeffrey Horner 23:14
  6. The Mother of All Demos Margaret O'Mara 25:13
  7. Why God Votes Republican Jill Gill 24:50
  8. The Left's Gift to Nixon Donald Critchlow 22:52

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Heat and Light