american history
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American Portraits: Alex P. Keaton
The cast of Family Ties.
“God wants me to make a lot of money. . . Because if He didn’t, He wouldn’t have made me so smart.”
Alex P. Keaton
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HIST 180 Survey of American History
The cast of Family Ties.
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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The Reagan Era: The 1980s
Timeline: The Eighties
Conservative Freedom
Conservatives and the 1970s
The Reagan Revolution
Postmodernism and the Big 80s
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1. Timeline: The Reagan Era: The 1980s
Republican Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Jimmy Carter in presidential election.
Air Traffic Controllers strike.
Reagan cuts taxes 25 percent and domestic and social programs.
First AIDS cases identified in the US.
Worst recession since the Great Depression; 10.8 percent unemployment.
Reagan announced Strategic Defense Initiative.
American troops sent to Lebanon; also invade Grenada.
Reagan reelected president in a landslide over Walter Mondale.
Reagion advisors negotiate missiles-for-hostages deal with Iran.
Soviet Premier Gorbachev meets with Reagan in Geneva.
Profits from Iran missile sales channeled to Nicaraguan “freedom fighters.”
Investigation of “Iran-Contra” affair.
Reagan meets Gorbachev in Moscow.
Savings-and-loan crisis deepens.
George H.W. Bush elected president, defeating Michael Dukakis.
1989 Communist regimes ousted in eastern Europe; Soviet Union moves toward market economy; Berlin Wall torn down and Germany moves toward reunification.
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2. Conservative Freedom
Frank Gehry, Hollywood Regional Library, 1983-86.
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Frank Gehry, Gehry Residence, Santa Monica, California, 1978.
Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2003.
Jose Rafael Moneo, Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, 2002.
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William F. Buckley, c. 1960.
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YAF/Barry Goldwater rally, 1964.
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Sammy Lee in uniform with the 1953 Sullivan Award.
Photograph. USC Libraries.
Flyer supporting Proposition 14.
Ronald Reagan on election night, 1966. .
3. Conservatives Respond to the 1970s
The gas shortage led to long lines in 1973.
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President Jimmy Carter delivers his “crisis of confidence” speech, 1979.
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Rev. Jerry Falwell, 1980. Phyllis Schlafly at anti-ERA event, c. 1978.
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4. The Reagan Revolution
President Ronald Reagan, 1981.
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Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan, 1981.
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Air Traffic Controllers on strike, 1981.
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White-collar criminals Michael Milken, Charles Keating, and Ivan Boesky.
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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas, Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987)
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Abandoned Carrie blast furnaces, Pittsburgh, PA
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Ronald Reagan, 1976.
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5. Postmodernism and The Big 80s
Robert Longo, Couple, 1981.
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Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks, 1953); and Madonna’s “Material Girl” video directed by Mary Lambert, 1985.
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Keith Haring, mural, Pisa Italy.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Skull), 1984.
Acrylic and mixed-media on canvas.
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Jeff Koons, New Hoover Convertibles, New Shelton Wet/Drys 5 Gallon, Double Decker. 1981/86.
Mixed media.
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Julian Schnabel, Exile. 1980.
Mixed media.
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Mark Tansey, Four Forbidden Senses (Taste, Sound, Smell, Touch), 1982.
Oil on canvas. The Broad, Los Angeles.
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