2008/09/18 by Meg Jacobs, Julian E. Zelizer · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Race, History, and American Society
paper · doi:10.1177/0022009408095423
openalex publication_date 2008/09/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
the Seventies transformed American economic and cultural life as much as, if not more than, the revolutions in manners and morals of the 1920s and the 1960s. The decade reshaped the political landscape more dramatically than the 1930s. In race relations, religion, family life, politics, and popular culture, the 1970s marked the most significant watershed of modern U.S. history, the beginning of our own time.1