So now we know the connection, what is the warning from the 1950s to today’s readers? When the government has an “enemies list” it is corrosive to every element of American life. Critics ...

In the years following World War II, the United States became the world leader in industry and a global power. Culture in the ...

"Racial segregation marked 1950s American life. David Hoffman presents captivating documentaries and archival news clips that explore the evolution of American life over the past century ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the ...

The ongoing struggle in America for racial equality has its roots in the trade of enslaved people, the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was ...

Masterfully researched and argued, Rethinking the 1950s makes it possible to do that rethinking.” -- Pamela Laird, University of Colorado Denver “Jennifer Delton advances a bold new interpretation of ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the ...

American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that ...