Welcome to Kansas 1972!
January 11, 2022
Welcome to Kansas 1972. A lot happened during that pivotal year, including the founding of Humanities Kansas. In celebration of Humanities Kansas’s 50th anniversary, this podcast tells stories of Kansas’s connections to national events in 1972 and how it was in this time and place that Humanities Kansas was created. In this series introduction, we'll take a look back 50 years to figure out what the decade of the 1970s, and 1972 specifically, was all about, and tease some of the stories we'll be telling over the next 10 episodes. Catch you on the flip side!
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Archival Audio Sources
- Watergate break-in news report, June 17, 1972.
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- “Star 34,” Kansas Industrial Development Commission (1954), https://www.kshs.org/km/items/view/223337
- Montage of short clips from 70s TV show theme songs (Sanford & Son, MASH, The Odd Couple, Charlie’s Angels, Mary Tyler Moore Show)
Primary Sources
- Top 10 Kansas News Stories of 1972, The Wichita Eagle, Dec. 31, 1972
- Time Magazine covers of 1972
Secondary Sources
Recommended books on the 1970s in American history
- Beth Bailey and David Farber (eds.), “America in the Seventies,” University Press of Kansas (2004).
- Philip Jenkins, “Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America,” Oxford University Press (2008).
- Andreas Killen, “1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America,” Bloomsbury USA (2006).
- Thomas Hine, “The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug),” Sarah Crichton Books (2009).
- Bruce Schulman, “The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics,” Da Capo Press (2002).
- Edward Berkowitz, “Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies,” Columbia University Press (2005).
- Peter Carroll, “It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s,” Rutgers University Press (1990).
- Jefferson Cowie, “Stayin' Alive; The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class,” The New Press (2012)
Interviews
- Jonathan Hagel - Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of History, University of Kansas
Music
- Intro, Outro, and background music by: Clelia Walking