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Hours of british bombardment, soldiers raised the flag that inspired an American Lawyer to write a poem that became our National Anthem. We all know about the anthem, but the man behind the song is less wellknown. We may be familiar with his name and the key bridge over the all. Ac, but that is about it has been more than 75 years since the biography of key has been published, and our speaker toay, marc leepson, is here tell us about what he has discovered through researching and writing his new book about key, what so proudly we hailed. Saidrian john coppola leepson tells a multifaceted story...

They are not buying that at all. They want lives they are restless people. And i think because of the suburbs that they grew up in, where there was not a lot of excitement, so they are reacting to what they see as an adventure deficit in the american culture. The assassinations of the 1960s, mlk, jfk, robert kennedy, the vietnam war how much did those events play into this movement . I think youre right, what most will thought would be their birth right, and the war in vietnam, in particular, as he say, the incredible violence of great leaders being struck down in the prime of their life. A lo...

Tv and sunday afternoon at 2 on American History tv on cspan3. Every weekend on cspan3 48 hours of American History. And this week, with the house and senate in recess all week for president s day, we are bringing you American History tv in primetime on cspan3. Tonight, two discussions from the american historical Associations Annual meeting. First, a look at the social upheaval of the 1970s. Then a conversation on historians being viewed as public intellectuals. Up next on American History tv on cspan3, a look at the social changes of the 1970s such as the aftermath of watergate, increasing d...

Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 197...

So, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. From water bait to the Energy Crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. And histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. Theres as many people have observed, the period of 1970s has gone from being easily dismissed histor...