America in the 1970s: The Era of Distrust | Teacher Seminars Online

This seminar will take participants back to the 1970s, when Americans challenged the fundamental institutions that had shaped national life since World War II. The seminar will focus on different parts of society—government, the economy, social norms, and international relations—that came under fire in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and Watergate. Participants will explore in greater detail the story and lasting ramifications of this critical decade.

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Julian E. Zelizer, Lead Scholar

Julian E. Zelizer is a New York Times best-selling author and the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and publishes a Substack called The Long View. A regular guest on NPR’s Here and Now, Zelizer is also a prominent analyst on numerous television and radio networks. He is the award-winning author and editor of twenty-seven books, including The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, which won the D. B. Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on Congress, and Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (co-authored with Kevin Kruse). His book Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party was named an Editor’s Choice and one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2020.