American Psyche | Lexual Does The 80s #6 (Patreon)

Hi guys. There are additional sources I will be adding to this post in the next few days. (I'm on vacation and a little discombobulated). Please enjoy this episode... comment, like, and share! It's the first episode of the series to be monetized <3 I'm manifesting this for the entire Lexual Does The 90s series so keep your fingers crossed for me! 

Sources + Further Reading

The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (Bruce J Schulman)

The 1970s: A New Global History From Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (Thomas Borstelmann)

Fault Lines: A History of The United States Since 1974 (Kevin Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer)

The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan (Bradford Martin)

The Age of Reagan: A History (1974-2008) Sean Wilentz

Morning In America: How Ronald Reagan Invented The 1980s (Gil Troy)

Back To Our Future: How The 1980s Explain The World We Live in Now-- Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything (David Sirota)

Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989, A Brief History With Documents (Meg Jacobs and Julian E Zelizer)

Living In The Eighties (Edited by Gil Troy and Vincent J Cannato)

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/14/us/white-supremacists-meet-in-quest-for-homeland.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/the-science-and-history-of-treating-depression.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/13/rain-man-at-30-autism-hoffman-cruise-levinson

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/23/us/essay-mercy-killing-reflects-conflict-ethics-for-physicians-journalists.html

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/371494

https://euthanasia.procon.org/historical-timeline/

https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/11/27/The-son-of-President-Reagans-personal-lawyer-was-convicted/6973470379600/

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/26/us/son-of-reagan-attorney-held.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-03-26-8903290824-story.html

This writer does not mention Reagan or the budget cut to hospitals, instead laying blame at liberal feet

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/05/truth-about-deinstitutionalization/618986/

https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1991-09-23-2807428-story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1989/05/14/the-hazards-of-duke/4b50a37b-9396-41ae-a66f-759224b62cd3/

https://archive.org/details/DavidDukeInterview1989

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/david-duke-interview-by-12-year-old-recording-slow-burn.html

https://archive.org/details/ComputerizedNetworksOfHate/mode/2up

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/05/16/US-prison-population-exploded-in-1980s/4744674366400/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/coming-home-vietnam-veterans-american-society

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2014/04/18/9-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-office-cubicle/https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/#:~:text=But%20the%20one%20issue%20that,mental%20hospitals%20were%20shut%20down.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/05/28/an-open-letter-to-dr-anthony-fauci/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/612876230/?clipping_id=82673456&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjYxMjg3NjIzMCwiaWF0IjoxNjYxNzE5NjMzLCJleHAiOjE2NjE4MDYwMzN9.FOJvvBI8oxcM1Hg5RNkJgPZ7ynoGdk7pcuh-v1Kbb1s

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/23/magazine/death-on-the-cnn-curve.html

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/rain-man-review-pauline-kael/

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/05/opinion/denying-the-mentally-ill.html

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317484#modern-treatment

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-19-mn-30337-story.html

https://thisisafrica.me/african-identities/limits-imagining-pleasure-african-sex/

https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/03/31/the-preppy-murder-whos-on-trial/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/11/15/evidence-of-evil

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-10-03-8503070326-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/07/us/extremist-finds-cable-tv-is-forum-for-right-wing-views.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/books/the-high-price-of-hate.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/03/style/new-generation-of-women-s-publications.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/02/01/homeless-choose-to-be-reagan-says/781996b6-ab3b-499b-96ea-38155d1c5127/

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/04/nyregion/geraldo-rivera-s-nose-broken-in-scuffle-on-his-talk-show.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-01-me-23675-story.html

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08865655.1988.9695361?journalCode=rjbs20

https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs-4064878

https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19780130-01.2.9&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------

https://dks.library.kent.edu/?a=d&d=dks19890307-01.2.38&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/04/us/judge-blocks-neo-nazi-woodstock-in-california.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/13/nyregion/schools-seeking-to-counter-ku-klux-klan.html

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2F1981%2F0720%2F072066.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-15-me-1425-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/10/us/california-judge-rules-holocaust-did-happen.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/436882330

https://web.archive.org/web/20111006070654/http://holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/pressac/technique-and-operation/

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/15/us/computer-network-links-rihtist-groups-and-offers-enemy-list.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/16/us/klan-s-ghost-haunts-louisiana-vote.html?searchResultPosition=2

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193314/

https://www.nps.gov/articles/disabilityhistoryrightsmovement.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/17/science/vaccine-for-hepatitis-b-judged-highly-effective-is-approved-by-fda.html

https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/04/29/body-count-how-the-reagan-administration-hides-the-homeless/

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/05/17/white-shadow-david-dukes-lasting-influence-american-white-supremacy

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-david-duke/

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/evolution-autism-diagnosis-explained/

https://pophistorydig.com/topics/ted-turner-cnn-1980s-1990s/

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/16/magazine/the-rush-hours.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-11-30-9204190360-story.html

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,925663-11,00.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/14/business/television-s-bad-boy-makes-good.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20100128214504/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,968069-4,00.html

https://apnews.com/article/515e79d71cbab2ab9e404fa58dc8863a

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/15/nyregion/joyce-brown-s-ascent-from-anonymity.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/14/us/white-supremacist-group-fills-a-corner-in-duke-campaign.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/31/nyregion/one-of-city-s-homeless-goes-home-in-death.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/07/25/san-ysidro-mcdonalds-wont-reopen/62576eda-69af-462a-84b9-101264697e45/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-06-05-8801050609-story.html

https://www.newsweek.com/real-david-duke-201998

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/11/10/dukes-obsession-white-supremacy-with-a-plan/77100ba3-3c59-434c-9f49-d3db9a573834/

https://iancommunity.org/lost-generation-growing-up-autism-before-epidemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1989/12/24/the-80s-were-big-for-tv/fce422b1-9857-4335-a1f6-ecb2461ac8c6/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/talk-radio-made-todays-republican-party/596380/

http://archive.pov.org/thefirenexttime/overview-the-rise-of-talk-radio/

https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/09/18/the-untold-story-of-the-tompkins-square-murder/

https://www.salon.com/2011/03/15/sirota_excerpt_back_to_our_future/

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/08/movies/film-view-revenge-fuels-cold-war-movies-of-the-80-s.html

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/216507998703500206

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/21/us/mail-carrier-kills-14-in-post-office-then-himself.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/americas-largest-mental-hospital-is-a-jail/395012/

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mailman-massacre-14-die-patrick-sherrill-postal-1986-shootings-article-1.204101

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5pabb/the-legacy-of-going-postal

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364434/pdf/milq0093-0139.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/13/rain-man-at-30-autism-hoffman-cruise-levinson

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/killer-tampons-outer-space-or-why-we-dont-hear-about-toxic-shock-syndrome-anymore

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/04/19/the-players-it-wasnt-a-game/545f7157-5228-47b6-8959-fcfcfa8f08eb/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/344473412/?terms=virginia%20prison&match=1

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1984/05/06/issue.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1984/05/08/issue.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/18091794/?terms=post%20traumatic%20stress%20disorder&match=1

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/09/us/husband-opposes-wife-s-wish-to-starve-to-death.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/27/us/quadriplegic-will-appeal-order-on-force-feeding.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/321753903/?terms=hemlock%20society&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/217479072/?terms=hemlock%20society&match=1

https://books.google.com/books?id=UuUCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=the+real+story+of+billie+boggs+new+york+magazine&source=bl&ots=NEAh3nsK72&sig=ACfU3U3DQCwItHXtHTIoFRjNSryd8ivfgw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ_6Opw5P6AhV6r4QIHVEoDcEQ6AF6BAggEAM#v=twopage&q&f=false

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1988/october-7/its-not-over-debbie.html

https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/smashing-barriers-access-disability-activism-and-curb-cuts

https://boundarystones.weta.org/2016/04/22/princes-free-concert-gallaudet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/11/30/prince-regales-handicapped-students/59494e6e-df41-4313-b252-99306cd91376/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06cr0dz

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/13/us/for-deaf-gallaudet-was-just-a-start.html

https://www.afb.org/afb100/our-history

https://time.com/5797491/closed-captioning-captions-history/

https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/391088723/?terms=autism&match=1

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/10/opinion/accept-the-disabled.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/07/20/huberty-was-an-angry-man-searching-for-a-better-way-of-life/97d5a23c-39df-4dc6-887d-6bdf692598c4/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/746303607/?terms=san%20ysidro%20mcdonalds%20petition&match=1

https://www.sactownmag.com/trigger-effect/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/864157574/?terms=san%20ysidro%20mcdonalds%20petition&match=1

https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/backgrounders/smi-and-homicide.pdf

https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/109948125/

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/09/archives/killing-sharpens-texas-feud-on-vietnamese-fishing-edgy-since.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/27/us/peace-returns-home-shrimp-fishermen-astronauts-talk-seabrook.html

https://timeline.com/louis-beam-white-supremacy-history-20d028315d

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/25/us/lawsuit-over-proof-of-holocaust-ends-with-payment-to-a-survivor.html

https://www.capturemag.com.au/advice/the-ethical-photographer

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/fighting-hate-idaho-city-battled-white-supremacists-for-two-decades/article_da9b4b43-f9a6-50cd-a87e-97c6ba8cd4cc.html

https://www.newspapers.com/image/625441204/?terms=robert%20o%20donnell%20hero&match=1

https://simson.net/ref/leaderless/berlet_when_hate_went_online.pdf

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/skinheads/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/724182625