1970s

A Brief History of the Grand Old American Tradition of Banning Books

Laura Pappano Investigates the “Chaotic and Illogical Business” of Censorship

 
By Laura Pappano  January 30, 2024
Film History

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

By Odie Henderson  January 25, 2024
Cultural History

What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

By Tobias Becker  December 13, 2023
Feminist History

We Are Not Alone: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine

By Gloria Steinem  September 20, 2023
New York City

Where Artists Became Rockstars: Brett Sokol on Stephen Aiken’s 1970s NYC

By Brett Sokol  June 21, 2023
What to Watch

Daisy Jones & the Six Balances Authenticity and Fantasy

By Sarah Priscus  March 23, 2023
Basketball

“That’s Just Playground Ball.” On Racism and Basketball in the 1970s

By Theresa Runstedtler  March 13, 2023
Rock N Roll

How CCR, “The Boy Scouts of Rock and Roll,” Took California and the Country by Storm

By John Lingan  August 9, 2022
Reading Lists

Making History: Six Books That Embrace the 1970s

By Donna Gordon  June 23, 2022
Politics

How the Toxic Waters of Niagara Falls Poisoned a Community

By Keith O'Brien  April 12, 2022
The Hub

“You cover that acid in comfort.” Read Toni Morrison’s 1973 edit letter to Lucille Clifton.

By Snigdha Koirala  December 10, 2021
Education

Why Sesame Street Was a Revolutionary Force for Children’s Television

By David Kamp  May 15, 2020
The Hub

Watch the first episode of a forgotten 1970 TV adaptation of Don Quixote . . . set in space.

By Emily Temple  May 12, 2020
Writer's Diaries

It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

By Ludvík Vaculík  January 29, 2020
The Hub

Margaret Atwood and her late husband Graeme Gibson reminisce about the intense literary scene of 1970s Toronto.

By Jonny Diamond  December 3, 2019
Criticism

On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

By Slavoj Žižek  September 9, 2019
Counterculture

Why Were the 1970s So… Weird?

By Erik Davis  August 12, 2019
Singer Songwriters

The Fictional Singer-Songwriter Who Got Her Own Real Album

By Laura Barnett  July 18, 2019
Essay

Why Do We Love Joni Mitchell the Way We Do?

By Nick Coleman  November 13, 2018
Essay

A 14-Year-Old Girl, A Genderqueer Performance Artist, and One of New York’s Most Unlikely Friendships

By Fernanda Eberstadt  August 20, 2018
Feature

Who Decides What’s Tacky Anyway?

By Jo Weldon  August 2, 2018
Poets

The Time Lou Reed Quit Music to Become a Poet

By Lou Reed  March 2, 2018
Excerpts

The Invention of the Rural Hipster

By John T. Edge  July 24, 2017
Politics

How Did America’s Banks Get So Much Political Power?

By Isaac Kaplan  June 22, 2017
Conversations

Daniel Riley on Skyjackings, Joan Didion, and 1970s California

By Dan Sheehan  June 8, 2017
Personal Essay

I Left the Worst Day of My Life Out of My Memoir

By Marcia Butler  May 26, 2017
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