School, i want to invite all of you to what i think is an extraordinary special event. Tonight, we have the honor of rosenfeld here. He went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco examiner and chronicle. I stayed in touch with him all those years. I have known him for at least 30 years. For all that time, seth was involved in his own personal of whatr the question was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s. Book,sult is this subversives, the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. It is an extraordinary book. I was waiting for years to rita. Its an extraordinary book. , it. Read it. This book is based on 250,000 documents. Some of which you will see tonight. If youve never seen a fbi document, you might be shocked. You might want to close your eyes when you see it. Handwriting i J Edgar Hoover himself. Looking out into the audience, lets do a poll. How many people remember J Edgar Hoover . Good. We dont have to do a lot of
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In 1963, the Ford Motor Company donated over 5000 films to the National Archives as a gift to the american people. The National Archives produced this documentary the same year to show highlights of the ford collection. In at his Highland Park april 1914 plant, he organized a Motion Picture department which through the years produced films that were shown in theaters and schools throughout the country, newsreels and documentaries that touched on nearly every facet of american life. [upbeat tune plays] thrills and spills at coney island. They say some folks even get wet if the waters warm enough. There is one car that takes you anywhere you want to go, the model t. Strong, sturdy, with a will to go. [suspenseful tune plays] here is how they put them together at the Highland Park plant. A car comes off the end of the line every 10 seconds. Pulitzer prizewinning on how themes ryden government wastes billions of taxpayer dollars on the war on terror. Stewart oden was the only u. S. Officia
Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking you about the 1970s, what this unique time means to us today and then we would like to open it up and have a lot of time for conversation, both among both with each other and most importantly, with the audience. So we are going to be sticking to a pretty, you know pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for conversation. So, one of the things that we were thinking abou
So, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. From water bait to the Energy Crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. And histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. Theres as many people have observed, the period of 1970s has gone from being easily dismissed historical footnote or a kind of punchline of some sort to being sort of interesting the 1960s, 1980s to being seen as in some ways a moment when many of the things that were most aware of in our own present world really came into existence. History such as nixon land the invisible bridge laura kalmans right star rising, no direction home jeff cowys staying alive, michael foleys front porch politics the