In this Yale lecture, Professor Beverly Gage examines the rise of the conservative movement in the late twentieth century United States, culminating in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The class traces the political and economic shifts that brought conservatism to national prominence following the upheavals of the 1960s. Recorded in Yale's Battell Chapel as part of the DeVane Lecture series America at 250: A History, the lecture is part of a one time course surveying United States history from 1776 to the present across lectures by three Yale historians, building on the prior class's treatment of the 1960s.