Time Capsule of 1986: American Life, Culture, Breakthroughs, and World Events (Year in History Books)
Sale price
$28.99
Regular price $34.99
Skip to product information
Time Capsule of 1986: American Life, Culture, Breakthroughs, and World Events (Year in History Books)
Sale price
$28.99
Regular price $34.99
A full-color photo history of 1986 that explores everyday American life, culture, breakthroughs, and world events through the American lens.
Open the Time Capsule and Step Back Into 1986!
Across 160 full-color pages with 143 photos and illustrations, this book is your time machine to the rise of desktop computers, wide shoulder pads and power suits, loud rock music videos, and the Statue of Liberty centennial.
Written in a conversational voice, the Time Capsule Series delivers history the way a knowledgeable friend would tell it, with the pace and visual energy of a fun magazine with the substance of an engaging history book.
Inside you’ll find:
Click “Buy Now” to open the Time Capsule of 1986.
Open the Time Capsule and Step Back Into 1986!
Across 160 full-color pages with 143 photos and illustrations, this book is your time machine to the rise of desktop computers, wide shoulder pads and power suits, loud rock music videos, and the Statue of Liberty centennial.
Written in a conversational voice, the Time Capsule Series delivers history the way a knowledgeable friend would tell it, with the pace and visual energy of a fun magazine with the substance of an engaging history book.
Inside you’ll find:
- Everyday life —from breakfast toaster pastries, latchkey afternoons and mall hangouts, to evenings with casseroles and takeout cartons
- Music of the era — the MTV era, where music became visual, alongside alternative bands breaking through via college radio
- Movies and TV —the year of big-screen spectacle, from action and sci-fi blockbusters like Top Gun and Aliens to network TV like Family Ties, and Miami Vice
- Sports history — from Maradona’s unforgettable World Cup performance, to the New York Giants’ Super Bowl run, and WWF’s leap into mainstream spectacle
- America and the World — Cold War diplomacy under Reagan and Gorbachev, global shockwaves from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and The Single European Act
- How families lived the American Dream — two-income households becoming the norm, “light” eating trends, and family travel shaped by paper tickets, film cameras, and landmark events
- Science and innovation — Microsoft’s 1986 IPO signaling the rise of software, and breakthroughs like the first genetically engineered vaccine
- The generation of 1986 from then to now — an analog childhood of landlines and handwritten homework, followed by adult lives repeatedly reset by digital changes
Click “Buy Now” to open the Time Capsule of 1986.