If 1968 was the year of ‘the far side of the moon & the birth of the culture wars’, it was also the year, according to Smithsonian magazine, “The American Story” shattered. This first of a multi-part series The American Tapestry Project about America’s tribal tales & culture wars anchors the series in  “The ‘60s” shattering of American norms: post-1968’s politics as angry  theater, identarian politics (Black Power, Women’s Liberation, Chicano,  Asian & Gay Rights), the libertarian sexual revolution, New Age  Religion, the counter-culture and a music drenched, media saturated  society in search of itself. 1968 – the year some call the worst year in  modern American history – suffered political assassinations, riots in  the streets, women on the march for equality, the War in Vietnam, the  Poor Peoples Campaign, the full blooming of the sexual revolution, the  counterculture’s “turn on, tune in, drop out” and music, music, music.  As they say on Madison Avenue, ‘all this and more’!