# Made at the Library: The Summer of ’71: Five Months that Changed the Nation with John Jenkins

Journalist John Jenkins discusses his work, Summer of ’71: Five Months that Changed America, with Manuscript Division historian Ryan Reft and senior archives specialist Connie Cartledge. From May through September 1971, the nation endured rising inflation, witnessed widespread anti-Vietnam War protests, and heard controversial Supreme Court cases. Jenkins draws upon more than a dozen Manuscript Division collections in documenting this history and will discuss his research, what it revealed to him, and what these collections tell us about 1971.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2026
- Runtime: 1 h 1 min
- By: Cartledge, Connie
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-12200/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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