Consider America’s political, economic, and cultural changes since the 1970s.
Write a standard essay on the following prompt (3 pages typed). When historians periodize the past (Gilded Age, Progressive Era, New Deal era, the Sixties), they intend to highlight the continuity of culture and society over several years and decades. In recent years, historians have begun to consider the 1970s the origins of our times—the roots of our contemporary society. Consider America’s political, economic, and cultural changes since the 1970s. Do they seem relevant to America today (political scandal, energy crises, social movements, ascendency of conservative politics, finance economies, etc.) If you were a professional historian, what would call this period, and why? (If you disagree that the United States since the 1970s is a historical “period,” that’s okay, but say why and support your answer—for instance, maybe you think climate change and the internet have transformed our world into a new period).
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