{"id":5663,"date":"2022-01-21T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?page_id=5663"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:56:28","slug":"1970s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>How did the energy crisis change American politics and society?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Brands, Chapter 8:\u00a0 Days of Malaise, 1974-79<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dirty Laundry and Family Jewels (pp. 187-92)<\/li>\n<li>Running on Empty (pp. 192-97)<\/li>\n<li>A Ford, Not a Lincoln; A Carter, Not a Ford (pp. 197-99)<\/li>\n<li>Beyond Containment (pp. 199-202)<\/li>\n<li>Neither Confidence&#8230; (pp. 202-04)<\/li>\n<li>\u2026 Nor Decisiveness (pp. 204-07)<\/li>\n<li>Trapped in Tehran (pp. 207-09)<\/li>\n<li>The Bad News Gets Worse (pp. 209-212)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Image Gateway<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-327 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1868px) 100vw, 1868px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist.png 1868w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist-1536x1025.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist-900x600.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/03\/MLK-as-Communist-1280x854.png 1280w\" alt=\"Highlander\" width=\"1868\" height=\"1246\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>From the FBI COINTELPRO FILES<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-19-at-8.02.13-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4962\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-19-at-8.02.13-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-19-at-8.02.13-PM.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/files\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-19-at-8.02.13-PM-300x180.png 300w\" alt=\"Suicide letter\" width=\"768\" height=\"462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4962\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1964 \u201cSuicide letter\u201d sent by FBI to blackmail Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (National Archives)<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>From Wallace to Carter &#8211;Politics in the South<\/h2>\n<p>The Nixon campaign was not the only one playing to the fears and resentments of American voters in 1968.\u00a0 Independent candidate and Alabama governor George Wallace offered his own version of right-wing populism (\u201claw and order\u201d) to help stoke support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/1968\/businglaw-and-order\">George Wallace, (Ind) \u201cLaw and Order\u201d (1968)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-7.16.16-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5042\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-7.16.16-AM-300x253.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-7.16.16-AM-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-7.16.16-AM-768x647.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-7.16.16-AM-356x300.png 356w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-13-at-7.16.16-AM.png 862w\" alt=\"Wallace ad\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2023\/04\/24\/interview-transcript-clara-blackwell\/\">Read Clara Blackwell&#8217;s oral history of life in post-segregation Mississippi<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Rise of Jimmy Carter<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Understanding Watergate<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.02.30-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5113\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.02.30-AM-1024x674.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.02.30-AM-1024x674.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.02.30-AM-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.02.30-AM-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.02.30-AM-455x300.png 455w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.02.30-AM.png 1336w\" alt=\"Woodward and Bernstein\" width=\"940\" height=\"619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/1976\/bio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5118\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.20.07-AM.png\" alt=\"Carter\" width=\"866\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.20.07-AM.png 866w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.20.07-AM-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.20.07-AM-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-7.20.07-AM-391x300.png 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Crisis of Confidence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;It is a crisis of confidence.\u00a0 It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.\u00a0 We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of America.&#8221; &#8211;President Jimmy Carter, July 1979<\/p>\n<h3>Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979)<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5806\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-8.53.22-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5806\" class=\"wp-image-5806 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-8.53.22-AM-1024x651.png\" alt=\"1979\" width=\"940\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-8.53.22-AM-1024x651.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-8.53.22-AM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-8.53.22-AM-768x488.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-8.53.22-AM-472x300.png 472w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-12-at-8.53.22-AM.png 1476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian Hostage Crisis, Tehran, 1979<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSpent ten months in solitary confinement. I was routinely beaten. I slept on bare concrete floors a lot of the time. I was often handcuffed. I sat in a room in solitary with a guy sitting ten feet away pointing a gun at me. I was never allowed to write a letter. My parents did not know I was alive until December 1980. Nor did the State Department. One of the guards smuggled a letter out for me.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2021\/05\/11\/a-witness-to-the-takeover-of-the-us-embassy-during-the-iranian-revolution-an-interview-with-former-political-officer-michael-metrinko-2\/\">Michael Metrink0, American hostage in Iran, quoted in oral history by Martin Vatanka, History 118, Spring Semester, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Glimpse into the Future (1979)<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KV-GLn-_pxs?si=84_w4ICJ0wSChzRu\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the energy crisis change American politics and society? Brands, Chapter 8:\u00a0 Days of Malaise, 1974-79 Dirty Laundry and Family Jewels (pp. 187-92) Running on Empty (pp. 192-97) A Ford, Not a Lincoln; A Carter, Not a Ford (pp. 197-99) Beyond Containment (pp. 199-202) Neither Confidence&#8230; (pp. 202-04) \u2026 Nor Decisiveness (pp. 204-07) Trapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5663","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5663\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}