Publication Date

March 2, 2010

Perspectives Section

AHA Activities, Perspectives Daily

AHA Topic

AHA Initiatives & Projects

Post Type

AHA Announcements

On November 29th of last year we asked AHA members and the public to name the decade, “offer[ing] their suggestions…for a catchy phrase that can wittily sum up the decade.” Ideas were submitted through the comment section on the blog post, and we are now presenting them to you to vote on.  See the November 29th blog post for longer explanations of these names and vote now for your favorite (in order of submission).

  • The OMG! Ohs
  • The Decade of Drift
  • Decade of Audacity
  • The Double Naughts
  • Bush Decade
  • 20 O’s
  • Welcome to the Naughties
  • The Digital Era
  • Decade of Terrorism
  • The Lost Decade
  • The Tookies
  • Decade of Smoke
  • The Fearful Decade
  • The Terrible Decade
  • The Bubble & Burst Decade
  • The Decade of Collapse
  • Decade of the InFEARmation Highway
  • The “NOW” Decade
  • The Unies
  • The Two-Aughts
  • TwentiOs
  • The Aughtities

Update: The results are in!

This post first appeared on AHA Today.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Attribution must provide author name, article title, Perspectives on History, date of publication, and a link to this page. This license applies only to the article, not to text or images used here by permission.