Blake Slonecker Oral History Collection 2008

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Blake Slonecker Oral History Collection 2008

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An historian of twentieth century social movements, Blake Slonecker received his doctorate at the University of North Carolina in 2009 and joined the history faculty at Waldorf College soon thereafter. In a dissertation examining the utopian impulses of the New Left (published in 2012 as ), Slonecker explored how the political and cultural activism of the 1960s helped reshape American political culture in the decade following. In June 2008, Slonecker conducted oral historical interviews with four individuals who were part of the extended community centered on the Montague Farm and Packer Corners communes during the late 1960s: Tom Fels, Charles Light, Sam Lovejoy, and Richard Wizansky. In wide-ranging interviews, the former communards discuss topics ranging from the fraught politics of the era, political and cultural activism, gender roles and sexuality, and daily life on the communes. A new dawn for the New Left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the long sixties

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