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The 1990s in America

Table of Contents

Abortion




Academy Awards




Advertising




Africa and the United States




African Americans




Andre Agassi




Agriculture in Canada




Agriculture in the United States




AIDS epidemic




Air pollution




Airline industry




Edward Albee




Marv Albert




Madeleine Albright




Woody Allen




Ally McBeal




Alternative rock




Julia Alvarez




Alzheimer’s disease




Amazon.com




America Online




Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990




AmeriCorps




Maya Angelou




Angels in America




Antidepressants




Apple Computer




Archaeology




Archer Daniels Midland scandal




Architecture




Dick Armey




Lance Armstrong




Peter Arnett




Art movements




Asian Americans




Astronomy




Attention-deficit disorder




Audiobooks




Autism




Auto racing




Automobile industry




Donovan Bailey




James Baker




Baker v. Vermont




Balanced Budget Act of 1997




Ballet




Charles Barkley




Dave Barry




Marion Barry




Baseball




Baseball realignment




Baseball strike of 1994




Basic Instinct




Basketball




Baywatch




Beanie Babies




Beauty and the Beast




The Beauty Myth




Beavis and Butt-Head




Joseph Cardinal Bernardin




Beverly Hills, 90210




Jeff Bezos




Biosphere 2




The Blair Witch Project




Blended families




Bloc Québécois




Blogs




Bobbitt mutilation case




Roberta Bondar




Sonny Bono




Book clubs




Bosnia conflict




Bowl Championship Series




Boxing




Boy bands




Broadway musicals




Garth Brooks




Ron Brown




Kurt Browning




Pat Buchanan




Warren Buffett




Burning Man festivals




George H. W. Bush




Business and the economy in Canada




Business and the economy in the United States




Byrd murder case




Cable television




Margarethe Cammermeyer




Campaign finance scandal




Kim Campbell




Canada and the British Commonwealth




Canada and the United States




Cancer research




Mariah Carey




Carjacking




Carpal tunnel syndrome




Jim Carrey




Casual Fridays




Cell phones




Censorship




CGI




Charlottetown Accord




Dick Cheney




Chicago heat wave of 1995




Chick lit




Child pornography




Children’s literature




Children’s television




Children’s Television Act




China and the United States




Deepak Chopra




Jean Chrétien




Christian Coalition




Christo




Warren Christopher




Cirque du Soleil




Civil Rights Act of 1991




Classical music




Clean Air Act of 1990




Bill Clinton




Hillary Rodham Clinton




Clinton’s impeachment




Clinton’s scandals




Cloning




George Clooney




CNN coverage of the Gulf War




Johnnie Cochran




Coen brothers




Coffeehouses




William S. Cohen




End of Cold War




Columbine massacre




Comedians




Comic strips




Computers




Conservatism in U.S. politics




Contract with America




Copyright legislation




Country music




Crime




Crown Heights riot




Tom Cruise




Culture wars




Jeffrey Dahmer




Matt Damon




Dances with Wolves




Dayton Accords




Dead Sea scrolls publication




Death Row Records




Defense budget cuts




Defense of Marriage Act of 1996




Ellen DeGeneres




Demographics of Canada




Demographics of the United States




Depo-Provera




Gail Devers




Diallo shooting




Digital audio




Digital cameras




Digital divide




David Dinkins




Bob Dole




Domestic partnerships




Don’t ask, don’t tell




Dot-coms




Downsizing and restructuring




Dream Team




Drive-by shootings




Matt Drudge




Drug advertising




Drug use




Jessica Dubroff




David Duke




DVDs




Earth Day 1990




Earth in the Balance




Ecstasy




Educate America Act of 1994




Education in Canada




Education in the United States




Egan v. Canada




EgyptAir Flight 990 crash




Elder abuse




Joycelyn Elders




Elections in Canada




Midterm elections in the United States




1992 Elections in the United States




1996 Elections in the United States




Electric car




Electronic music




E-mail




Employment in Canada




Employment in the United States




ER




Melissa Etheridge




Europe and North America




Fabio




Fads




Susan Faludi




Jerry Falwell




Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993




Louis Farrakhan




Fashions and clothing




Feng shui




Fen-phen




Colin Ferguson




Fermat’s last theorem solution




Film in Canada




Film in the United States




Heidi Fleiss




Kelly Flinn




Food trends




Football




Steve Forbes




Foreign policy of Canada




Foreign policy of the United States




Forrest Gump




Frasier




Friends




Gardner Museum art theft




Bill Gates




Frank Gehry




General Motors strike of 1998




Generation Y




Genetic engineering




Genetically modified foods




Genetics research




Dick Gephardt




Kathie Lee Gifford




Newt Gingrich




Ruth Bader Ginsburg




Rudolph Giuliani




John Glenn




Global warming debate




GoodFellas




Jeff Gordon




Al Gore




Sue Grafton




Michael Graves




Alan Greenspan




Ken Griffey, Jr.




John Grisham




Grunge fashion




Grunge music




Gulf War




Gulf War syndrome




Gun control




Hackers




Hairstyles




Haiti intervention




Hale-Bopp comet




Mia Hamm




Tom Hanks




Happy Land fire




Harry Potter books




Hate crimes




Health care




Health care reform




Heaven’s Gate mass suicide




Heroin chic




Anita Hill




Hip-hop and rap music




Hobbies and recreation




Hockey




James Hogue




Holocaust Memorial Museum




The Holy Virgin Mary




Evander Holyfield




Home Alone




Home run race




Homeschooling




Homosexuality and gay rights




Hubble Space Telescope




Human Genome Project




Hurricane Andrew




Illegal immigration




Immigration Act of 1990




Immigration to Canada




Immigration to the United States




In Living Color




Income and wages in Canada




Income and wages in the United States




Independent films




Instant messaging




Intelligent design movement




Internet




Inventions




Iron John




Israel and the United States




Jenny Jones Show murder




Jewish Americans




Steve Jobs




Joe Camel campaign




Magic Johnson




Michael Jordan




Journalism




Jurassic Park




Kitty Kelley




Jack Kemp




John F. Kennedy, Jr.




Kennedy rape case




Nancy Kerrigan




Jack Kevorkian




Khobar Towers bombing




Killer bees




Rodney King




Stephen King




Barbara Kingsolver




Klaas kidnapping and murder case




Knox pornography case




Yusef Komunyakaa




Jeff Koons




Kosovo conflict




Kwanzaa




Kyoto Protocol




Emeril Lagasse




K. D. Lang




Laparoscopic surgery




The Larry Sanders Show




Las Vegas megaresorts




LASIK surgery




Late night television




Latin America




Latinos




Spike Lee




Left Behind books




Lewinsky scandal




Liberalism in U.S. politics




Life coaching




Rush Limbaugh




Line Item Veto Act of 1996




Literature in Canada




Literature in the United States




Lollapalooza




Long Island Lolita case




Los Angeles riots




Louima torture case




Courtney Love




Shannon Lucid




McCaughey septuplets




Frank McCourt




Reba McEntire




Mark McGwire




McMansions




Terry McMillan




Terrence McNally




Timothy McVeigh




Madonna




Mafia




Magic Eye pictures




Mall of America




Karl Malone




Mapplethorpe obscenity trial




Marilyn Manson




Marriage and divorce




Mars exploration




The Matrix




Medicine




Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus




Menendez brothers murder case




Metallica




MetLife scandal




Mexico and the United States




Michelangelo computer virus




Microsoft




Middle East and North America




Midnight basketball




Militia movement




Milli Vanilli




Million Man March




Minimum wage increases




Minorities in Canada




Mississippi River flood of 1993




Rohinton Mistry




Montana Freemen standoff




Judge Roy Moore




Alanis Morissette




Dick Morris




Toni Morrison




Mount Pleasant riot




Mozart effect




MP3 format




MTV Unplugged




Brian Mulroney




Murphy Brown




Music




Mike Myers




Nanotechnology




National debt




National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)




Native Americans




Natural disasters




NC-17 rating




Nicotine patch




Nine Inch Nails




Nirvana




Nobel Prizes




Noriega capture and trial




North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)




North Hollywood shoot-out




Northern Exposure




Northridge earthquake




Antonia Coello Novello




Nunavut Territory




Bill Nye




NYPD Blue




Oakland Hills fire




Sinéad O’Connor




Oklahoma City bombing




Oklahoma tornado outbreak




Olympic Games of 1992




Olympic Games of 1994




Olympic Games of 1996




Olympic Games of 1998




Olympic Park bombing




Michael Ondaatje




Shaquille O’Neal




Bill O’Reilly




Organic food movement




Outsourcing




Chuck Palahniuk




Gwyneth Paltrow




Patriot missile




PDAs




The Perfect Storm




Itzhak Perlman




H. Ross Perot




Pharmaceutical industry




Philadelphia




River Phoenix




Photography




Physician-assisted suicide




Brad Pitt




Pixar




Planned Parenthood v. Casey




Plasma screens




Poetry




Pogs




Pokémon franchise




Police brutality




Faith Popcorn




Poverty




Colin Powell




Project Gutenberg




Promise Keepers




Annie Proulx




Psychology




Publishing




Pulp Fiction




Dan Quayle




Quebec referendum of 1995




Queer Nation




Race relations




Ramsey murder case




The Real World




Recession of 1990-1991




Christopher Reeve




Keanu Reeves




Reform Party




Religion and spirituality in Canada




Religion and spirituality in the United States




Janet Reno




Rent




Republican Revolution




Ángel Maturino Reséndiz




Anne Rice




Right-wing conspiracy




Cal Ripken, Jr.




Julia Roberts




Chris Rock




Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum




Rock Bottom Remainders




Rock the Vote




Romer v. Evans




Philip Roth




Ruby Ridge shoot-out




The Rules




RuPaul




Russia and North America




Rust v. Sullivan




Meg Ryan




Winona Ryder




Salmon war




Salt Lake City Olympics bid scandal




Pete Sampras




Saturn Corporation




Saving Private Ryan




Scandals




Schindler’s List




Dr. Laura Schlessinger




School violence




Norman Schwarzkopf




Science and technology




Scream




Search engines




Seinfeld




Selena




Monica Seles




Sex and the City




Tupac Shakur




Al Sharpton




Shaw v. Reno




Gail Sheehy




Matthew Shepard




Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet




Showgirls




The Silence of the Lambs




Silicon Valley




Silicone implant ban




Simpson murder case




The Simpsons




Slang and slogans




Susan Smith




Will Smith




Soccer




Soccer moms




Social Security reform




Somalia conflict




Susan Sontag




Sammy Sosa




South Park




Space exploration




Space shuttle program




Spam




Scott Speicher




Spoken word movement




Sport utility vehicles (SUVs)




Sports




Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace




Starr Report




Stem cell research




George Stephanopoulos




Howard Stern




Martha Stewart




Stock market




James Stockdale




Elvis Stojko




Storm of the Century




Mark Strand




String theory




Kerri Strug




Sundance Film Festival




Supreme Court decisions




Sustainable design movement




Tae Bo




Tailhook incident




Take Our Daughters to Work Day




Talk radio




Quentin Tarantino




Tattoos and body piercings




Telecommunications Act of 1996




Telemarketing




Television




Tennis




Term limits




Terminator 2: Judgment Day




Terrorism




Texas A&M bonfire collapse




Theater in Canada




Theater in the United States




Thelma and Louise




Clarence Thomas




Three strikes laws




Tibetan Freedom Concerts




Titanic




Tobacco industry settlement




Toys and games




Transgender community




John Travolta




Troopergate




Donald Trump




TV Martí




TV Parental Guidelines system




TWA Flight 800 crash




Twenty-seventh Amendment




Twin Peaks




Mike Tyson




Unabomber capture




Unforgiven




United Nations




John Updike




UPN television network




U.S. Capitol shooting




U.S. embassy bombings in Africa




The Vagina Monologues




ValuJet Flight 592 crash




Jesse Ventura




Versace murder




Viagra




Victoria’s Secret




Video games




Waco siege




David Foster Wallace




Wal-Mart




Denzel Washington




Water pollution




WB television network




William Wegman




Andrew Weil




Welfare reform




West Nile virus outbreak




Where’s Waldo? franchise




White House attacks




Whitewater investigation




Christine Todd Whitman




Jeffrey Wigand




L. Douglas Wilder




Will and Grace




Oprah Winfrey




Paul Wolfowitz




Women in the military




Women in the workforce




Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA)




Women’s rights




Tiger Woods




Woodstock concerts




World Cup of 1994




World Trade Center bombing




World Trade Organization protests




World Wide Web




Aileen Carol Wuornos




WWJD bracelets




X-Files




Xena: Warrior Princess




Y2K problem




Yahoo!




Kristi Yamaguchi




Year of the Woman




Year-round schools




Zone diet




Publisher’s Note