Photo of Marc Stein’s book “Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s” against a blue background. https://buff.ly/zG5WRee
Photo of the table of contents page of Marc Stein’s book “Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s,” https://buff.ly/zG5WRee, with an overlaid review quote from Library Journal: “Stein shows that, outside the official planning and programming, the values and rhetoric of the Revolutionary era sparked a spirit of ’76 that pushed for LGBTQIA+ rights, women’s equality, and justice reforms unimaginable two centuries earlier. It also exposed a grimmer history, as white supremacists and anti-immigration activists surfaced to claim the celebration. A comprehensive and critical look at the Spirit of 1976.”
Photo of the interior of Marc Stein’s book “Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s,” https://buff.ly/zG5WRee, with an overlaid review quote from Jill Lepore in The New Yorker: “As the nation prepares to mark the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its founding, it’s easy to forget that the two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. . . . The simmering resentments of the Bicentennial reached their fullest expression, unsurprisingly, in Philadelphia, as the historian Stein recounts in Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s.”
It’s election day in Chicago! It’s also #PubDay for SFSU & @oah.org’s Marc Stein and his book #Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s. As we vote, take a look back at the spirit of '76, a time of striking similarities/differences to the US 250th in '26. #America250 buff.ly/zG5WRee
