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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Lectures In History 1970s Culture Economics 20240714

Today we are going to discuss an overview of america in the 1970s. In the beginning of the century we talked about how it takes a bit of time or historians to understand what an era is about at least 25 years of perspective. The 1970s were seen as a bit of a joke of a decade. Bellbottoms, disco, bad hair. In recent years historians have seen the 1970s is very important. In some ways william more important than the 1960s which seems to get a lot of attention. One of the themes historians have talked about is calling this era the age of limits. We will get to a little bit about what that means. We will talk about that and also the . Was this really an age of limits . We will discuss the import of the decade and the influence it had on not just the 1980s but really down to our time today. Recapping what we talked about earlier, we see in the 1970s a pretty profound loss of faith in American Institution driven by nixons resignation over watergate in 1974. The final end of the vietnam war i

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20141101

Published in the new yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation among other outlets. In his cover essay on the invisible bridge for the New York Times book review this past sunday frank rich wrote, it says much about perlsteins gift as a historian that he persuasively portrays a silky splendor interlude between the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan as his subtitle has it. Not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta Stone for reading america and its politics today. It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes years of lively engrossing and on occasion partly funny. Perlstein knows how to sit through a culture for the telling forgotten detail. True to form, perlstein doesnt condescend to this conservative icon and seems to understand him. For now perlstein has taken the story only through the summer of our bicentennial year but much of what has happened in the nearly four decades since and perhaps much that is yet to come can be found

Report notes segregation patterns in Massachusetts schools

A new report from the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Advisory Council highlights the correlation between highly segregated schools and student outcomes.

225K students in Mass. go to segregated schools, new report says

The report found that segregated public schools correspond with low graduation rates and standardized test scores.

Elected officials, union advocates join Councillor Mejia in call for audit of municipal employment practices