What are the most important ways that we are living today with the consequences of changes to U.S. society forged in the late 1970s and 1980s?
An important part of writing about history is how historians divide the historical timeline into different eras. This is known as periodization. Generally, historians think of key transformative events as dividing one period of history from another. For example, historians often treat the Second World War as dividing one era of U.S. history from another. Different historians, of course, identify different events as key turning points, and so periodize history in different ways.
Many historians (and other social scientists) think of the events of the late 1970s and early 1980s as dividing one era of U.S. history (from the Second World War to the late 1970s) from another (from the late 1970s to the present). What are the most important ways that we are living today with the consequences of changes to U.S. society forged in the late 1970s and 1980s?
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