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Film, Video Ground Control: Beyond an Environmental History of the Space Race

Event video

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Title

  • Ground Control: Beyond an Environmental History of the Space Race

Summary

  • Historians usually depict the space race of the 1960s and 1970s as a pitched technological battle between Cold War political rivals. Yet while U.S. and Soviet spacecraft forced the world to look upward towards the Moon, they also, quite ironically, encouraged citizens across the globe to gaze back down at "spaceship Earth" with a newfound environmental awareness. In this lecture, Neil Maher not only examines this environmental history of the space race, but perhaps more importantly, argues that it influenced many of the social movements of the postwar era, including the fight for civil rights, equality for women, an end to the Vietnam War, and the rise of suburbia and the military industrial complex.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-07-02.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Environment, Conservation

Notes

  • -  Classification: Auxiliary Sciences of History.
  • -  Neil Maher.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-07-02.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688274

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Ground Control: Beyond an Environmental History of the Space Race. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-02, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688274/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2009) Ground Control: Beyond an Environmental History of the Space Race. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-02. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688274/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Ground Control: Beyond an Environmental History of the Space Race. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-02, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688274/>.