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The Unraveling

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Section 26.01

I. Introduction

  1. Acts included Santana; Jefferson Airplane; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and the Flying Burrito Brothers. The Grateful Dead were scheduled but did not play.[]

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  2. Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002), 18.[]

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  3. Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s , updated ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 304–305.[]

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  4. Owen Gleibman, “Altamont at 45: The Most Dangerous Rock Concert,” BBC , December 5, 2014, http://​www​.bbc​.com/​culture/​story/​20141205​-did​-altamont​-end​-the​-60s.[]

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Section 26.02

II. The Strain of Vietnam

  1. Jeff Leen, “The Vietnam Protests: When Worlds Collided,” Washington Post, September 27, 1999, http://​www​.washingtonpost​.com/​wp​-srv/​local/​2000/​vietnam092799​.htm.[]

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  2. Michael J. Arlen, Living-Room War (New York: Viking, 1969).[]

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  3. Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation , rev. ed. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), 190.[]

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  4. Mitchel P. Roth, Historical Dictionary of War Journalism (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997), 105.[]

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  5. David L. Anderson, The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 109.[]

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  6. Guenter Lewy, America in Vietnam(New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), 325–326.[]

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  7. Lyndon B. Johnson, “Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection,” March 31, 1968, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, http://​www​.lbjlib​.utexas​.edu/​johnson/​archives​.hom/​speeches​.hom/​680331​.asp.[]

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  8. Lewy, America in Vietnam , 164–169; Henry Kissinger, Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003), 81–82.[]

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  9. Richard Nixon, “Address to the Nation Announcing Conclusion of an Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam,” January 23, 1973, American Presidency Project, http://​www​.presidency​.ucsb​.edu/​ws/​?pid​=​3808.[]

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  10. Richard Nixon, quoted in Walter Isaacson, Kissinger: A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005), 163–164.[]

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  11. Geneva Jussi Hanhimaki, The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 257.[]

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Section 26.03

III. Racial, Social, and Cultural Anxieties

  1. Jakobi Williams, From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).[]

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  2. “Gallup Protest is Peaceful: BIA is Picketed,” Gallup Independent, May 9, 1970, Folder 30, Box 2, Papers of the National Indian Youth Council (P-NIYC), Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.[]

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  3. “The Black Mesa Navajo Speak,” Black Mesa Fact Sheet, February 14, 1970, 8–9. In Rainbow People, no date, American Indian Periodicals (AIP), Firestone Library, Princeton University.[]

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  4. Cohen,Consumer’s Republic.[]

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  5. Quotes from “Lionel Moves into the Neighborhood,” All in the Family , season 1, episode 8 (1971), http://​www​.tvrage​.com/​all​-in​-the​-family/​episodes/ 5587.[]

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  6. Jim Dawson and Steve Propes, 45 RPM: The History, Heroes, and Villains of a Pop Music Revolution (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2003), 120.[]

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  7. Roger Ebert, “Review of Dirty Harry,” January 1, 1971, http://​www​.rogerebert​.com/​reviews/​dirty​-harry​-1971.[]

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  8. Ronald P. Formisano, Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).[]

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  9. Michael W. Flamm, Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), 58–59, 85–93.[]

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  10. Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (New York: Random House, 2008), 348.[]

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  11. Cohen, Consumer’s Republic , 373.[]

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  12. Ibid., 376.[]

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  13. Martin Luther King, quoted in David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: Morrow, 1986), 439.[]

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Section 26.05

V. The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon

  1. Essay by Henry A. Kissinger, 1969, Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume 1, Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1969–1972, https://​history​.state​.gov/​historicaldocuments/​frus1969​-76v01/​d4.[]

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  2. Richard M. Nixon, “Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam,” November 3, 1969, American Experience, http://​www​.pbs​.org/​wgbh/​americanexperience/​features/​primary​-resources/​nixon​-vietnam/.[]

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  3. Richard Nixon, “Address to the Nation about Policies to Deal with Energy Shortages,” November 7, 1973, American Presidency Project , http://​www​.presidency​.ucsb​.edu/​ws/​?pid​=​4034.[]

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  4. Office of the Historian, “Oil Embargo, 1973–1974,” U.S. Department of State, https://​history​.state​.gov/​milestones/​1969​-1976/​oil​-embargo.[]

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  5. “Gas Explodes in Man’s Car,” Uniontown (PA) Morning Herald , December 5, 1973, 12.[]

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  6. Larry H. Addington, America’s War in Vietnam: A Short Narrative History(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), 140–141.[]

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  7. Schulman, Seventies , 44.[]

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  8. “Executive Privilege,” in John J. Patrick, Richard M. Pious, and Donald A. Ritchie, The Oxford Guide to the United States Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 227; Schulman, Seventies, 44–48.[]

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Section 26.06

VI. Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Sunbelt

  1. Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis , 132.[]

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  2. Ibid., 136–149.[]

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  3. Ibid., 144, 261.[]

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  4. Jefferson Cowie and Nick Salvatore, “The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History,” International Labor and Working-Class History 74, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 1–32, esp. 9.[]

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  5. Quoctrung Bui, “50 Years of Shrinking Union Membership in One Map,” NPR , February 23, 2015, http://​www​.npr​.org/​sections/​money/​2015/​02/ 23/385843576/50–years-of-shrinking-union-membership-in-one-map.[]

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  6. Kevin Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority(New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1969), 17.[]

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  7. Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 , 3rd printing (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 3.[]

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  8. William H. Frey, “The Electoral College Moves to the Sunbelt,” research brief, Brookings Institution, May 2005.[]

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Section 26.07

VII. The Environmental Movement

  1. Steven Stoll, U.S. Environmentalism since 1945: A Brief History with Documents (New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2007).[]

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  2. Milestones in EPA and Environmental History, The Environmental Protection Agency, https://​www​.epa​.gov/​history/​milestones​-epa​-and​-environmental- history.[]

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  3. Richard S. Newman, Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).[]

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  4. Christopher W. Wells, Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018).[]

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  5. Joshua P. Howe, Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014).[]

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Section 26.08

VIII. The Politics of Love, Sex, and Gender

  1. Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, June 7, 1965.[]

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  2. Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113, January 22, 1973.[]

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  3. Miller v. California , 413 U.S. 15, June 21, 1973.[]

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  4. Rita Mae Brown, quoted in David Allyn, Make Love, Not War—The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History (New York: Routledge, 2001), 239.[]

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  5. Roger A. Wojtkiewicz, Sara S. McLanahan, and Irwin Garfinkel, “The Growth of Families Headed by Women: 1950–1980,” Demography 27, no. 1 (1990): 19–30.[]

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  6. Nancy MacLean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 121.[]

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  7. Ibid., 129.[]

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  8. Anastasia C. Curwood, Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023).[]

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  9. Glenda Riley, Divorce: An American Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 135–139.[]

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  10. Ibid., 161–165; Mary Ann Glendon,The Transformation of Family Law: State, Law, and Family in the United States and Western Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 188–189.[]

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  11. Arland Thornton, William G. Axinn, and Yu Xie, Marriage and Cohabitation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 57.[]

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  12. Jason Baumann, ed., The Stonewall Reader (New York: Penguin, 2019), 143.[]

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  13. David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004), 147.[]

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  14. “Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation,” reprinted in Susan Stryker, Transgender History (Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008), 96–97.[]

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  15. William N. Eskridge, Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861–2003(New York: Viking, 2008), 209–212.[]

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  16. Jerry Falwell,Listen, America! (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980), 19.[]

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  17. Donald Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 213–216.[]

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  18. Ibid., 218–219; Joel Krieger, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World , 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 256.[]

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  19. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, 219.[]

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  20. Phyllis Schlafly, quoted in Christine Stansell, The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present (New York: Modern Library, 2010), 340.[]

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  21. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism , 281.[]

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Section 26.09

IX. The Misery Index

  1. Sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008(New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 69–72.[]

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  2. Patterson, Restless Giant , 113.[]

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  3. Jimmy Carter, 1978 State of the Union Address, January 19, 1978, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, http://​www​.jimmycarterlibrary​.gov/​documents/​speeches/​su78jec​.phtml.[]

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  4. Jefferson Cowie,Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (New York: New Press, 2010), 12.[]

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  5. George Meany, quoted in ibid., 293.[]

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  6. Ibid., 268.[]

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  7. Richard Viguerie, quoted in Joseph Crespino, “Civil Rights and the Religious Right,” in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s , ed. Bruce J. Schulman and Julian Zelizer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 91.[]

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  8. Wilentz, Age of Reagan, 75.[]

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  9. Patterson, Restless Giant , 148.[]

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  10. Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), 231.[]

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  11. Jimmy Carter, “University of Notre Dame—Address at the Commencement Exercises at the University,” May 22, 1977, American Presidency Project, http://​www​.presidency​.ucsb​.edu/​ws/​?pid​=​7552.[]

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  12. Wilentz, Age of Reagan , 100–102.[]

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  13. Harvey Sicherman, Palestinian Autonomy, Self-Government, and Peace (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993), 35.[]

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  14. Jimmy Carter, “Tehran, Iran Toasts of the President and the Shah at a State Dinner,” December 31, 1977, American Presidency Project, http://​www​.presidency​.ucsb​.edu/​ws/​?pid​=​7080.[]

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  15. Jimmy Carter, “The State of the Union Address,” January 23, 1980, American Presidency Project, http://​www​.presidency​.ucsb​.edu/​ws/​?pid​=​33079.[]

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