"It Belongs to the World"

"These younger scholars learned about King, Nixon and the Kennedy clan growing up, then in college and graduate school read works by historians who, as it happened, were often part of 1960s political movements. Gitlin, who teaches at Columbia University, was president of Students for a Democratic Society.

"'This is not to dismiss a generation of scholars,' Schieder said, 'but I think right now is a kind of reckoning.'"

Michael S. Rosenwald at The Washington Post discusses how young historians are coming to view 1968.