John McMillian studies twentieth century social movements, and he is especially interested in New Left and youth culture radicalism during the 1960s. He is the author of Beatles Vs. Stones, Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America and he is a founding co-editor of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, which has been published by Routledge since 2008.