Barbara L. Tischler

Barbara L. Tischler is director of curriculum and professional development at the Horace Mann School in New York City. She is author of numerous articles on American culture, the 1960s, and aspects of the anti-Vietnam War movement, along with An American Music (1986) and Sights on the Sixties (1992). She teaches U.S. history and government at Horace Mann School as well as courses on the U.S. Constitution and U.S. history at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Lecture topics:

• Beat Prose and the Journey Home: Jack Kerouac's Struggle with the Road
• "Born on the Fourth of July": Musical Celebrations of America's Independence
• Women in the Antiwar Movement of the 1960s
• "Singing Well and Shooting Straight": Music in America's Twentieth-Century Wars
• The G.I. Antiwar Movement in Vietnam
• Music in the Civil Rights Movement

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