The 1970s
American Cultural History - 1970-1979
Multimedia Seventies 1970 - The retro news and history of the 1970s
1970s history including Popular Culture, Prices, Events, Technology
Welcome to inthe70s, The Seventies nostalgia site
Welcome to the 70's Preservation Society
The 70s, Remembering the 70s Era
Anyone take Trig before the hand-held calculator was developed? If you said yes, then you know about Slide Rules!!!
During high school, I always stopped by the Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop on the way to band and drill team practice!!!
A 80s TV Show that paralleled my life in the 70s(of course, I was Winnie, not Kevin)
The Wonder Years as an American Narrative
free 70's clipart images to download for your web site
KENT STATE
Kent May 4 Center - May 4, 1970 Kent State Massacre
Kent State: Remembering May 4, 1970
Alan Canfora, Kent State tragedy eyewitness, victim, expert, May 4, 1970.
WATERGATE
watergate.info - The Scandal That Destroyed President Richard Nixon
For more, visit the section on Nixon on my Presidents page.
VIETNAM ENDS
For info on the Vietnam War, drop by my Cold War - Korea - Vietnam page.
TV & FILM
Saturday Morning TV Shows: 1970
An 80s TV Show that paralleled my life in the 70s - The Wonder Years as an American Narrative (of course, I was Winnie, not Kevin)
Rod Serling's Night Gallery: A Shadowy Museum of the Outre
History, Nostalgia, and Adolescence in American Film
Cinema History:The 1970s-Era of Cynicism, Disenchantment, & Rebellion
The late 1970s--Psychological Portraits
Disaster Films - Greatest Disaster Film Scenes (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno - with all that angst going on in the 70s, it's not suprising it was the hey day of the distaster film)
Greatest James Bond Girls (see the 60s section for more James Bond)
Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Web Site!!!
Star Wars: Welcome to the Official Web Site - it all began in 1977!!!
Images - Clint Eastwood: Go Ahead, Punk
Images - Deconstructing Francis: Apocalypse Now and the End of the '70s
wholepop - lunchboxes - I had a Monkees lunch box, what one do YOU remember? For more info on retro food, check out my FOOD IN HISTORY & AROUND THE WORLD page.
For more, please visit my Motion Pictures, Movies, Film and Television & Misc. Fine Arts pages.
MUSIC
Stuck in the '70s - Music of the '70s
1970s Hit Songs - Popular Songs & Signature Songs - 1970s Music
Disco Savvy: Quality Disco Music Albums
Oldies Music -- history, trivia and charts of Fifties, Sixties and Seventies
CLASSIC ROCK PLUS! - Links to bands from the 50's to the 80's
For more, please visit my Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Swing page.
FASHION
Hippies in Polyester - The 1970s
The 70's and 80's Sportswear Museum
History of the Shopping Center and Mall
The Heights of Fashion: Platform Shoes Then and Now - Stupid Shoes
For much more, please visit my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page.
TOYS
Barbie in the Seventies and Eighties - more on Barbie in the 60s section.
THE UBIQUITOUS SMILEY FACE - "HAVE A GREAT DAY!"
Smiley Face History - Invention of the Smiley Face
Smiley Face Graphics at Kurrus.Net
1970 Jan 1, The National Environmental Policy Act
1971, The Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis [documentary collection of The National Security Archive
1971, New York Times Co. v. United States
["The Pentagon Papers" decision regarding freedom of the Press]
1972, Roe v. Wade [Majority opinion in landmark decision on choice and abortion]
1972, History and text of The Federal Water Pollution Control Act ["the Clean Water Act", .pdf file format]
VIETNAM
1961, December 14, Letter from President Kennedy to President Diem.
1964, August 5. The Tonkin Gulf Incident: President Johnson's Message to Congress,
1972 June 23, WATERGATE - Richard M. Nixon and H. R. Haldeman. Conversation at the White House
[The "Smoking Gun" tape]
1973 March 17, WATERGATE - tapes: President Richard M. Nixon counsels Dean on possible testimony.
[Audio, Real Player]
1973 August 13, WATERGATE - Richard M. Nixon, Second Watergate Speech.
1973 September 11, Chile: "The State and Revolution," by Tom Lewis
from the International Socialist Review, Winter 1999
1973 September 11, US Role in Military Coup-d'Etatt in Chile [documentary collection of The National Security Archive
1973 October 10, "Paying Off a Vice President"
[Relating to the resignation of Spiro Agnew as Vice-President of the United States]
1974 August 8, WATERGATE - Richard M. Nixon, Resignation Speech
1974 August 10, WATERGATE - Richard M. Nixon, Farewell Address to his Staff.
1974 July 24, WATERGATE - United States v. Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, et al. [required the President to surrender secretly recorded conversations]
Administration of Gerald Ford, 1974-1977
1974, August 9, Gerald R. Ford's Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office as President.
1974, September 8, President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4311, Granting a Pardon to Richard Nixon.
1974, Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act
1976, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
1976, Saul Bellow awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
1976, Foreign Aid and Human Rights
[Congress linking foreign aid to a country's respect for human rights]
1976 September 23, President Gerald Ford v. Jimmy Carter [Video and transcript]
Administration of Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981
1977, Jimmy Carter, "Human Rights and Foreign Policy"
[The President makes the promotion of human rights a goal of US foreign policy
1978, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
[Dealing with the question of "Reverse Discrimination"]
1978, Presidential Records Act
1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature