For a historian, growing older has the special quality of having lived through history. With this in mind, I have since 2013 repeatedly commemorated the passage of fifty years that I personally experienced:
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy assassination
- 1965 – Malcolm X assassination
- 1965 – A landmark U.S. immigration bill
- 1967 – The Six-Day War
- 1969 – The Harvard student "strike"
- 1969 – Studying the Middle East
- 1969 – The military draft lottery
- 1970 – Comparing the Left then and now
- 1970 – The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1971 – The Harvard Counter Teach-In
- 1971 – My Harvard College class graduates
- 1971 – A speech by Harvard's President Nathan Pusey
(June 18, 2021)
