Week of March 23
March 23: Rise of the Right
- Dennis A. Deslippe, “’Do Whites Have Rights?’: White Detroit Policemen and “Reverse Discrimination” Protests in the 1970s,” Journal of American History
- Robert Freedman, “The Religious Right and the Carter Administration,” The Historical Journal
- “Days without Sunshine,” pp. 4-16 only
March 25: The 1980 Campaign
- Cary R. Covington, Kent Kroeger, Glenn Richardson and J. David Woodard, “Shaping a Candidate’s Image in the Press: Ronald Reagan and the 1980 Presidential Election,” Political Research Quarterly
- Jerome L. Himmelstein and James A. McRae, Jr., “Social Conservatism, New Republicans, and the 1980 Election, The Public Opinion Quarterly
Reagan campaign ad:
Carter campaign ad:
1980 campaign map: 
1980 Senate campaign map: bright-red states represented Republican pick-ups (12-seat gain, take control of Senate for first time since 1955): 
KC Johnson 