The 1970s

  • The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality
    The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality
    By Thomas Borstelmann

    ... 2007); Donald T. Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007); Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, ...

  • The 1970s
    The 1970s
    By Elizabeth Campling

    Downfall of Nixon protests his innocence a President The last act Nationalist surge Sport and the. 1974 The suspicions mount Damning evidence Dirty tricks AT THE BEGINNING of the year , President Nixon finally handed over some of the ...

  • The 1970s
    The 1970s
    By Neil A. Hamilton

    In 1971, civil rights advocate Jesse Jackson founded People United to Save Humanity (PUSH) to overcome racial and ethnic barriers and advance civil rights and opportunities for an array of disadvantaged people. In the late 1960s, ...

  • The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
    The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
    By John McLeod, Philip Tew, Nick Hubble

    Emecheta and her husband had five children together, but separated in 1966. As recounted in her early novels, the marriage was an unhappy and sometimes violent one. Following the end of her marriage, Emecheta began studying at the ...

  • The 1970s
    The 1970s
    By Kelly Boyer Sagert

    ... A Need Crying to Be Heard.” Christian Century, November 6, 1974, Montgomery, Kathryn C. Target, Prime Time: Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over Entertainment Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Morris, Bernadine ...

  • The 1970s
    The 1970s
    By Gail B. Stewart

    Series discusses the political, economic and cultural life of the United States in the 20th century.

  • The 1970s
    The 1970s
    By Kelly Boyer Sagert

    Few conventions were left unchallenged in the 1970s as Americans witnessed a decade of sweeping social, cultural, economic, and political upheavals. The fresh anguish of the Vietnam War, the disillusionment...

  • The 1970s
    The 1970s
    By Neil A. Hamilton

    Draws from diaries, letters, speeches, and newspapers to provide accounts of the events and issues of the 1970s, including the Equal Rights Amendment, Watergate, student protests, the Vietnam War, the Bicentennial, Three Mile Island, and ...