“The Eighties – The Reagan Years” – This section of the Songbook primarily focuses on domestic issues in the United States during the late 1970s

Beginning in the mid-1960s, the priorities of the Democratic Party began to shift away from white working and middle class voters- many of them socially

Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford in the election of 1976. In the presidential campaign of 1980, Carter not only had to defend his administration of

Walter Mondale had been Vice President in the Carter administration; Geraldine Ferraro was a Congresswoman from Long Island. She was the first woman nominated on

When Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1980, he wanted to change the nation’s economic path. He rejected the prevailing economic theory that had dominated

On Monday, October 19, 1987 (known as “Black Monday”), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunged 22.6%. The DJIA’s collapse greatly surpassed its 12.8 percent

The New Right or Christian Right, a conservative populist movement, had religious, political, economic and cultural components. The term refers to a set of evangelical organizations that

The most significant social problem of the 1980s was the rise of the AIDs epidemic. (This topic is discussed in detail in the original section

The Reagan Administration began to prioritize what came to be called the “War on Drugs”, which seemed to focus on minority communities. The efforts included

By the end of the 1980s, the U.S. was the world’s greatest superpower and very wealthy; but, paradoxically, despite growing prosperity (more people were in