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SALISBURY, MD---Richard Nixon governed the nation (for a while, anyway), Archie Bunker ruled the airwaves, and disco was king.

The 1970s was a decade of polarizing, tumultuous events and pop-cultural phenomena. Dr. Dean Kotlowski, professor of history at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, discusses some of the political, entertainment and cultural milestones that helped define the era as part of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½’s Adventures in Ideas humanities seminar series. His presentation, “Stayin’ Alive: Surviving the 1970s,” is 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, February 2, in Teacher Education and Technology Center Room 179.

Kotlowski has earned critical acclaim for his book Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy, published by Harvard University Press. Last year, he appeared as a panelist at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, CA, discussing “Understanding Richard Nixon and His Era: Domestic Policy.” C-SPAN filmed and rebroadcast the event.

The network later came to ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ to film Kotlowski’s lecture “Richard Nixon and Civil Rights,” part of his “America in the 1970s” course, for C-SPAN3’s “American History TV” programming block. In 2008, he taught a similar course at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, as a Fulbright Scholar, one of academia’s highest honors. In 2013, he is scheduled to appear in the PBS documentary Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust.

Sponsored by the Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts and the Whaley Family Foundation, admission to the seminar is $30, which includes coffee, snacks and lunch. Advance registration is required.

Upcoming in the series is “Camelot’s Hope: Legend and Statecraft from Arthur to Kennedy” with Dr. Kristen Walton of the History Department 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, March 2.

To register, call Donna Carey at 410-543-6450 or e-mail dmcarey@salisbury.edu. For more information visit the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Web site at www.salisbury.edu.