1970s Summary

1970s: Fashion Despite the bell-bottom and platform-shoe revival of the early 2000s, it is unlikely that anyone will remember the 1970s for the quality of its innovations in fashion. In fact, many of ... Read more

1970s: the Way We Lived In 1976, journalist Tom Wolfe (1931–) coined the term "The Me Decade" to describe the 1970s. It was not a compliment. In the eyes of many, Americans in the... Read more

Decline of the Mainline Churches. The decline of membership and influence of Mainline Protestant denominations continued in the 1970s. Conservatives charged that these denominations had lost their fi... Read more

1960s Legacy. The decade of the 1970s was in many ways a continuation of the late 1960s. The liberals and radicals of the 1960s inspired the social-justice crusades or liberation movements of the 197... Read more

The Limits of American Power. The 1970s demonstrated, more clearly than in any other postwar decade, the limits of American power abroad. After the longest war in American history, the United States ... Read more

A Decade of Transformations. Activism in the 1960s may have been conducted by fewer than 5 percent of college students nationwide, but the principles of inclusion and equality of opportunity these pr... Read more

31 May World Events of the 1970s 7 June 8 June 19 June 24-27 June 29 June 21 July 27 July Read more