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This button commemorates the NBC television series, The Monkees, which ran from 1966 to 1968. The series followed a fictional band, The Monkees, who sought stardom in the music business. According to vocalist and drummer, Mickey Dolenz, the Monkees were initially "a TV show about an imaginary band… that wanted to be the Beatles that was never successfu.l" Yet, in reality, beyond the tv show, the Monkees recorded several albums and became one of the most popular musical acts of the 1960s, selling more than 75 million records to date. The Monkees disbanded in 1971, but have reunited several times over the decades since to tour and record.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1968
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Cornell Daily Sun, Friday, May 2, 1969
New Left
The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent newspaper published by Cornell University students in Ithaca, New York. The newspaper was established in 1880 by William Ballard Hoyt to challenge the weekly Cornell Era. Of particular note in this issue is coverage of the Cornell SDS ROTC protest. Members of SDS and their supporters “broke into a restricted area of Barton Hall” and “painted slogans on a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps practice deck gun.” This protest was a part of a larger wave of protest against ROTC on campuses across the country during this period. Other articles focus on a Cornell Trustee meeting in the wake of campus protests; demonstrations on other campuses nationwide. Also, this issue includes advertisements for a film screening of The Beatles new film, “Magical Mystery Tour,” an upcoming concert at Cornell by Janis Joplin, an upcoming concert on campus by the Pharoah Sander Quintet and an upcoming concert at Syracuse by Jimi Hendrix.
Cornell Daily Sun
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
May 2, 1969
independent media
Leviathan, vol. 1, no. 7, December 1969
New Left
Leviathan was a radical New Left newspaper loosely aligned with Student for a Democratic Society, published in 1969 and 1970. Early editorial leaders of the periodical included Carol Brightman, Beverly Leman, Kathy McAfee, Marge Piercy and Sol Yurick in New York, as well as Peter Booth Wiley, Carole Deutch, Danny Beagle, Matthew Steen, Bob Gavriner, Al Haber, Bruce Nelson, Todd Gitlin, and David Wellman in San Francisco. The paper, which took a generally serious, intellectual-minded approach to radical organizing, as opposed to the more irreverent tone of the counterculture, ceased publication in the Fall of 1970 in the wake of SDS factionalization. This issue includes articles on U.S. policy in Vietnam since 1969; contradictory developments in the anti-war movement; poetry; a defense of the Weather Underground; a review of the Beatles Abbey Road; corporatization, inflation and labor unions; capitalism’s investment cycle; monetary policy; letter to the editor.
Leviathan Publications, Inc.
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
December 1969
underground press