in 2015 the American Supreme court ruled gay marriage constitutional in all 50 states. Before this ruling, conservatives were fighting to prevent gays from marrying. Forty years earlier they were fighting to keep southern blacks from voting. Fifty-someodd years before that, the culture war was about if women would be allowed to vote nationally. I'm interested in the things I don't know. People talk about how much change we've experienced since the sixties, but what about since before the sixties, say from the 1720s until the 1960s? Was there a change in conventional thought every fifteen/20 years or did early America run on the midevil model, my great grandfathers life is the same as mine? I'm looking for detail on this topic, I've been interested in the particulars of American social change for a while. Films from 1931 are more sexual than films from 1945, was there some time in prefilm American history when conservatives thought the culture had gone liberal? Really curious about this entire topic.