Summary: TAH.org's last Saturday Webinar for the 2017-18 school year, today we focused on the 444 day long crisis in which 52 American embassy workers were taken hostage by Iranian revolutionaries and held for over a year, bringing to a head conflict between that country's new rulers and the United States, and likely contributing to the downfall of President Jimmy Carter. Relevant to the ongoing friction and sometimes hostility between the quasi-theocracy of Iran and the United States, this crisis ended with Ronald Reagan's inauguration as president in January 1981, and has had ripples and repercussions since. Access the archive page here iTunes Podcast Podcast RSS The post Saturday Webinar: Iran Hostage Crisis appeared first on Teaching American History.
