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A history of environmental politics since 1945 (2000). Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980–1989 (2010) detailed narrative from conservative perspective; Johns, Andrew L. ed. A Companion to Ronald Reagan (2015), 34 essays by scholars emphasizing historiography excerpt and text search
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation results in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. 1995 — Retired professional football player O. J. Simpson is acquitted of two charges of first-degree murder in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. The ...
Perhaps no style moment of the 2000s is more iconic than when Britney and Justin showed up at the AMAs in 2001 wearing matching denim ensembles. ... History was made on January 20, 2009, when ...
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
Early 2000s recession. Dot-com bubble (2000–2002) (US) 2001 Turkish economic crisis; September 11 attacks (2001) 2002 Uruguay banking crisis; 2002–2003 Venezuelan general strike; 2006–2012 New Zealand finance company collapses; 2008 financial crisis; Great Recession (worldwide) 2000s energy crisis (2003–2009) oil price bubble
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
Reagan Era (1980–1992) Neoconservatism (1980s-2000s) Dot-com bubble (c. 1995 –2000) ... Dictionary of American History: From 1763 to the Present (Facts on File, 2000)