Lecture – Era of Limits: the Oil Crisis and the Bad Economy of the 1970s

Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest

Maps and Cityscapes

People and the Humanities

Week Eleven: Era of Limits: the Oil Crisis and the Bad Economy of the 1970s

Era of Limits

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Professor Michael S. Mayer

Reaction to Watergate, Economic Problems, and Ford
- 06 min 33 sec

Carter's Failed Presidency, Part I
- 06 min 31 sec

Carter's Failed Presidency, Part II
- 11 min 21 sec

Election of 1980, and New Challenges
- 08 min 49 sec

Decline of Liberalism
- 11 min 25 sec

Northwest, and Consequences
- 08 min 17 sec

Selected Sources for Lecture

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