State Legislatures magazine celebrated four decades of its print edition in 2014—alongside NCSL’s own 40th anniversary. In a four-part series, the magazine looked back at the political drama that shaped the organization’s founding in the 1970s, how NCSL navigated the policy issues of the 1980s, the ways changing technology and public distrust marked the 1990s, and how state legislatures continued to evolve through tragedies like 9/11 and challenging policies of the 2000s. Read the series for a look at how legislatures have changed—and also, stayed the same—since 1975.