This week, a lecture about how the end of the Cold War impacted American youth culture in the 1990s.

As I've been thinking about the last part of the 20th century, the 1990s I think makes sense

to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture, in popular culture,

as well as in politics.

Coming up more with Evergreen State College professor Bradley Proctor.

Okay, so what we are talking about today is picking up where we left off on Thursday with

the end of the Cold War.

And also, I'm trying to make sure that we stitch

different themes that we've had through the quarter and through both quarters together.

The program is titled America to 2025, so some thinking about the future is important.

And as I've been thinking about the last part of the 20th century, the 1990s, I think,

makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture,

in popular culture, as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that I want to talk about

in terms of this do a little bit of looking back, looking forward.

And then there are kind of going to be two halves of the lecture, links to kind of politics and

links to pop culture. So I want to talk about the end of the Cold War and especially how it

manifested and how Americans thought about politics, then I want to talk

about pop culture and think about the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about

the present even in terms of like everything is great or everything is terrible. The future will be

wonderful or the future is going to be

awful. Adding here that, as with all of my lectures, I'm not going for comprehensive coverage,

but especially asking people to think about change over time and then like how does ideology,

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