History 261 Section 13B: Documents on Social Movements/Political Realignment

 

Note: Discussion Project #6 is canceled-no formal written assignment due in section.

 

For Section 13B please read selections from the two assigned books and the documents linked below. Think about how to make sense of the social movements and political transformations during the fifteen-year period between the apparent triumph of liberalism in the mid-1960s and the conservative victory of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

 

**Schaller, Right Turn, Chapters 1-2

 

**Foner, Story of American Freedom, pp. 287-332 [this includes the section originally assigned for Section 12B]

 

**Richard Nixon, Acceptance Speech at Republican National Convention (Aug. 8, 1968)

 

**Two articles about the "Hard Hat Riots" when construction workers in New York City attacked antiwar demonstrators protesting the Kent State killings on May 8, 1970

              **New York Times (March 9, 1970)

              **Wall Street Journal (May 11, 1970)

 

**No More Miss America! (Women's Liberation Manifesto, 1968)

 

**"Gays on the March" Time Magazine (Sept. 8, 1975)

 

**"What Next for U.S. Women" Time Magazine (Dec. 5, 1977)

 

**President Jimmy Carter, "Crisis of Confidence" Speech (July 15, 1979)

 

**President Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (Jan. 20, 1981)