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Pathfinder for 1970-1979: Disco Years
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In the 70s.com |
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1970's trivia that includes music, movies, television, world events, fads and fashions. |
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Kent State University protest, May 4, 1970 |
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President Richard Nixon's announcement of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the need to draft more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam War effort provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. At Kent State University in Ohio, demonstrators occupied buildings and destroyed the ROTC offices. In response, the governor of Ohio dispatched hundreds of National Guardsmen to the campus. On May 4, the guardsmen open fire on a crowd of protesters, killing four students and wounding nine others. |
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Super 70s, culture news and history |
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Find people,trends, and events associated with the culture and the history of the 1970's. |
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Vietnam War Memorial page |
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This site is dedicated to honoring those who died in the Vietnam War. Find names added to the warr in recent years, photos, a casualty summary, and more. |
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The Watergate Scandal |
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http://www.realhistoryarchives.com/collections/conspiracies/watergate.htm |
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A link to articles based on facts regarding the Watergate break-in and other events that led to both President Nixon's resignation and investigations into the US intelligence agencies. |
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Stephen Feinstein |
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Y 973.924 F327n |
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For young adults. Traces the events, trends and important people of the 1970's, including science, technology, environmental issues, politics, fashion, the arts, sports, and entertainment. |
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Gale Research |
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973.92 A51275 |
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An overview and chronology covering the entire decade, which includes biographies, explanations of concepts, terms and events, quotations, charts, sidebars covering high-interest topics, and much more. |
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Black Camelot : African-American culture heroes in their times, 1960-1980 |
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William L. Van Deburg |
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973.0496073 V28b |
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Examines the rise of pop icons such as Muhammad Alik James Brown, and Aretha Franklin in the wake of the Kennedy era, looking at the social and historical contexts in which they flourished and describing their powerful impact on the American scene. |
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Thomas Leonard, Cynthia Crippen, and Marc Aronson |
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909.820202 L553d |
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Jacqueline Herald |
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391.009047 H412f |
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Looks at how the fashions of the 1970's reflected the social, historical and cultural events of that decade. |
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James Olson |
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973.924 H629 |
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An encyclopedic overview of the prominent people, significant events, issues and controversies, and the culture of an era that challenged the very core of traditional American convictions. |
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How We Got Here: The Seventies, the Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse) |
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David Frum |
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927.924 F943h |
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Frum argues that it was the 1970's, not the 1960's, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. He examines the country's metamorphosis through political events, popular opinion, polls, films, music, and advertising to describe the most total social transformation the US has gone through since the age of industrialism. |
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Pagan Kennedy |
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973.92 K385p |
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Andrew Edelstein & Kevin McDonough |
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973.92 E21s |
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The Seventies: the great shift in American culture, society, and politics |
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Bruce J. Schulman |
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973.92 S386s |
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Provides a real assessment of the crucial years from 1968 to 1984 and the ways in which they changed America forever. |
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Video |
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Discusses the events of March 28, 1979, when a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, overheated. Employs news footage and first person interviews in relating the efforts made to avoid a catastrophic meltdown. |
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Interviews and film footage of American prisoners of war in Vietnam. |
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The seventies--the best and the worst of the decade unfolds to rekindle memories of where we were, how we felt and how we acted. Relive the sights, sounds and sensations of the '70's. |
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The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression. |
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Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times. |
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Government Documents |
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Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace |
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Find information relating to the life and times of Richard Milhous Nixon. Includes a forum, archives, Vietnam War bibliography, and Nixon's public papers. |
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Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum |
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Find information relating to the life and times of Gerald Rudolph Ford. The Library collects and preserves the archival record, and aids public access. |
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Jimmy Carter Library and Museum |
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Find information relating to the life and times of James Earl Carter, Jr. The site provides links to the National Archives and Records Administration, the Carter Center, and the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. |