19: 1970s Malaise

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Cultural Impact of The Exorcist 1973 - YouTube

a 20 minute documentary about a feature film released in 1973 gives 21st century students a better idea of the media environment of the early 1970s. Students couldn't expect to drive for hours to get to a theatre to see a movie or to wait for hours to get in. This also includes reactions to the horror in the film, horror which students today can see themselves at any time.

Cultural Impact of The Exorcist 1973 - YouTube

Drinking the Kool-Aid – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple

This short essay should be included in documents put in front of students if Jonestown is being taught. The personal perspective of someone on the inside provides a much more complete understanding of the event when it is read alongside secondary source descriptions and other primary sources

Drinking the Kool-Aid – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple

Jaws! - Current

Short reading on the movie, provides clear understanding of the theatre experience in the 1970s, and how entertainment was changing through the period

Jaws! - Current

Crip Camp | A Disability Revolution

Nominated for over thirty awards, including Best Documentary Feature from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and co-produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, Crip Camp begins in 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp founded in 1951 for disabled people located in New York's Catskill Mountains, and follows some of the campers through their participation in disability rights protests, including the 504 Sit-ins in 1977 and various demonstrations leading to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.

Crip Camp | A Disability Revolution

Lesson 4: Language, Power, and Ableism

Disability lesson plan focusing on language

Lesson 4: Language, Power, and Ableism

Home - Computer History Museum

Primary and secondary source material regarding the most impactful development in human history since the printing press and the steam engine - yet never taught in US History courses

Home - Computer History Museum

Equal Rights Amendment | Stanford History Education Group

In this lesson, students are presented with a claim made on Twitter about the popularity of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. Students use the internet to evaluate the trustworthiness of the claim and to determine whether the Equal Rights Amendment had popular support in the 1970s and whether it does today.

Equal Rights Amendment | Stanford History Education Group

Marijuana-Uses » Blog Archive » Mr. X by Carl Sagan

No one who knows Carl Sagan for his Cosmos series, the Candle in the Dark essay or his explanation of the Cosmic Calendar to think about humanity's place in the universe will ever believe that he wrote this essay.

Marijuana-Uses » Blog Archive » Mr. X by Carl Sagan

The Iran Hostage Crisis Simulation | Harry S. Truman

Students will examine the once confidential / secret documents provided through the following assigned angles / roles: legal (Constitutional implications), political, economic, foreign policy and domestic policy. Overall they are tasked with advising President Carter on how to best resolve the Hostage Crisis through such options as: negotiated release, military intervention, economic sanctions or another method. The students will meet formally with their group members and brainstorm possible positive and negative consequences of their recommended plan as well as prepare an alternative proposal for President Carter to select.

The Iran Hostage Crisis Simulation | Harry S. Truman

United States v. Nixon | Oyez

Oral Argument, recording and transcript. Case addresses the determination of what the Constitution means - can Presidents make that determination on their own?

United States v. Nixon | Oyez

Billy Graham: to Richard Nixon: Satan was working through the Jews, but Hitler handled it all wrong - Current

The challenge of trying to understand the past in the 21st century is revelations like this, taken directly from the evidentiary record of the past. How are we to understand Nixon with this information added to what we already know?

Billy Graham: to Richard Nixon: Satan was working through the Jews, but Hitler handled it all wrong - Current

Primary Source Set: Briggs Initiative — GLBT Historical Society

This primary doc set relates to a California state ballot proposition that would have banned gay and lesbian people from working in California schools. It was defeated, but the rhetoric surrounding it reveals different attitudes at the time

Primary Source Set: Briggs Initiative — GLBT Historical Society

Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple

San Diego State site that claims its primary purpose is to present information about Peoples Temple as accurately and objectively as possible. In an effort to be impartial, we offer many diverse views and opinions about the Temple and the events in Jonestown

Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple

Lesson Plan: Love Canal and the Environmental Protection Agency | Retro Report

Marshall McLuhan 1977 Interview - Violence as a Quest for Identity - YouTube

At about 4 minutes into this clip Marhsal McLuhan explains how what he calls the "electric age" has eliminated our privacy. Middle aged listeners in their 40s and 50s will be shocked that this was recorded in 1977. Gen Y listeners might just ask "so what?"

Marshall McLuhan 1977 Interview - Violence as a Quest for Identity - YouTube

Curriculum | Crip Camp

Lesson guide to accompany film

Curriculum | Crip Camp

Cured Film - Documentary

CURED tells the story of the activists who brought about a pivotal but little-known victory in the movement for LGBTQ equality: the American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses

Cured Film - Documentary

Cuyahoga River Fire - The Blaze That Started a National Discussion | Cleveland Historical

Lessons addressing the advent of environmental protection laws in the United States should include a reference to the Cuyahoga River fire of June 1969. Historiography lessons could reference this fire and a similar one in 1952 that did not attract national attention at the time and is absent from history lessons entirely

Cuyahoga River Fire - The Blaze That Started a National Discussion | Cleveland Historical

Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now | Origins

Roots Review: What Critics Said About the 1977 Series | Time

That ’70s Show: Lessons from the oil shortages of nearly 50 years ago

Time to Lay the 1973 Oil Embargo to Rest | Cato Institute

It might be possible to pair this up with another article or textbook section about the 1973 oil embargo - have students see the similarities and differences between the two

Time to Lay the 1973 Oil Embargo to Rest | Cato Institute

U.S. Product Supplied of Finished Motor Gasoline (Thousand Barrels per Day)

Teachers who like to fool around with data can take information from this Energy Information Agency site to show the actual size of the gasoline shortage in the United States in 1973 - it was not much

U.S. Product Supplied of Finished Motor Gasoline (Thousand Barrels per Day)

Energy crisis: what can 1973 teach us? - YouTube

10 minute video that explains the role of oil and energy in international conflict from 1973 through 2023. Although it would be easy to assume that using energy supplies as a weapon is effective, this video shows how it is not

Energy crisis: what can 1973 teach us? - YouTube

Study Materials | The Energy Crisis: Past and Present | History | MIT OpenCourseWare

Two things to note here - first is the fact that there are lots of resources here to scroll through to find for an energy/environmental history lesson. The second is MIT uses a lot of YouTube videos

Study Materials | The Energy Crisis: Past and Present | History | MIT OpenCourseWare

News report from 1981 about the Internet - YouTube

Two minutes of a nightly news report about a man that reads a copy of the newspaper "on his computer". It is interesting to see the representatives of the San Francisco Examiner say that they do not intend to make money off this

News report from 1981 about the Internet - YouTube

Milestones in EPA and Environmental History | US EPA

Clickable timeline of events

Milestones in EPA and Environmental History | US EPA

Jimmy Carter Interview with "Playboy" Magazine | The American Presidency Project

Jimmy Carter's approval rating dropped by 15% in one week after the publication of this interview

Jimmy Carter Interview with "Playboy" Magazine | The American Presidency Project

Turn, Turn, Turn - Pratt Institute

The headline events of Kent State, the Hard Hat Riot and the Moratorium against the war were a backdrop against countless local events across the country - this article reveals a perspective of May 1970 through the lens of the Pratt Institute

Turn, Turn, Turn - Pratt Institute

The 1970s: The Lost Decade – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers from the National Humanities Center

Professional development resource for teachers preparing themselves and their lessons to teach the 1970s

The 1970s: The Lost Decade – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers from the National Humanities Center