# Bruce Schulman

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The 70s Show: A Conversation with Historian Bruce Schulman

"My first encounter with Bruce Schulman was, of course, through his book on The Seventies.  This would have been in 2003, just a couple of years after September 11th in fact, and I think I first saw the book and was compelled to gaze at its cover on account of its title. I may have bought it at on…

Nixon & Watergate

On 8 August 1974, US President Richard Nixon announced his intention to resign from office. This signaled the end of a scandal-plagued period in office. The release of the so-called “smoking gun” audio recording had implicated Nixon in attempts to cover-up his surrogate’s illegal break-in at the DN…

Saturday Night Fever with Bruce Schulman

Well you can tell by the way we talk and talk...this week we're covering Saturday Night Fever, the 1977 dance-drama that took the world by storm with the story of one man's life as it revolves between the struggles of his working class Brooklyn neighborhood and his passion for disco. University of …

The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 1: 1992

ELECTION SPECIAL (PART 1) The US is in an Age of Polarization. From the 1930s to the 1980s, voter allegiances were more fluid and presidents sometimes won huge landslides (think Reagan in 1984 or Nixon in 1972). But for the last thirty years, a huge gulf between the parties -- at least rhetorically…

The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 3: 2008

AGE OF POLARIZATION ELECTION SPECIAL PART 3: 2008 The US is in an Age of Polarization. From the 1930s to the 1980s, voter allegiances were more fluid, and presidents sometimes won massive landslides (think Reagan in 1984 or Nixon in 1972). But for the last thirty years, a huge gulf between the part…

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 99: The Long Seventies w/ Bruce Schulman

Bruce Schulman's 2001 book The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics is a fascinating take on a critical era, and helps put the Trump era into an understandable historical context. In this conversation, Schulman discusses how popular culture came to be such a central…

Donald Trump’s Uses (and Abuses) of History: A Conversation with Bruce Schulman.

This week’s episode of then & now is part of an occasional series exploring the past, present, and future of U.S. foreign policy and the U.S.-led international order. Guest host Dr. Ben Zdencanovic is joined by Bruce Schulman, Professor of History at Boston University, to discuss the Trump administ…

How Will History Judge Joe Biden?

A year on, what does Trump’s comeback say about Biden’s understanding of the country he led? Was his vision of America already obsolete — a relic of the bipartisan consensus forged in the 1950s when young Joe was coming of age?  In this episode, we trace Biden’s life through the long arc of America…

Gay Masculinity and Its Discontents

Gays being masc has been making people mad for half a century now, and in this episode, we read Seymour Kleinberg’s 1978 Christopher Street essay, “Where Have All the Sissies Gone?” to find out why. We discuss the rise of “gay macho” in the 1970s, exemplified by the clone, the leather bar, BDSM, an…

Ep 11 History Gives Us Agency with Bruce Schulman

In this episode, Hanna, Sage, and Julius sit down with historian Bruce Schulman to explore the relationship between history, media, journalism, and American politics. Bruce explains how mass media transformed political communication, why journalists need a stronger historical perspective, and what …