America Now! 1976 And All That: Remembering Remembering the American Revolution

War in the Middle East and a calamitous global energy shock. Domestic political instability and violence. Assassination attempts on the life of a controversial Republican President. America celebrating a milestone birthday.The USA in 2026? Or 1976?During its Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) year, the US finds itself once again contemplating its birth pangs during a time of crisis and a collapse in American self-confidence. This mood of cynicism and uncertainty seems to rhyme with the Bicentennial moment fifty years ago – though the narratives and institutional memories of the USA’s founding certainly had their own dynamics in the mid-1970s, as they do today. So turn up your Eagles LP, switch on your Apple 1 computer, watch Rocky hit the silver screen, and join us as we remember remembering Revolution in 1976.Chaired by Mike Collins, Chair of the British Association for American Studies.