Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1940 to 1949.
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A illustrated look at the United States of the 1940s and 1950s, a time of prosperity and technological progress.
Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Throughout the war ' this fearful man continued to bring hope and optimism to his listeners'.13 Washington and Hollywood Insiders Many have compared the careers of Drew Pearson , the consummate Washington insider , and Walter Winchell ...
... within those organizations protested the incarceration from the start, David Levering Lewis characterizes Walter White and other civil rights leaders as fearful of being collectively “tarred with the brush of anti-patriotism.
... Richard, 97, 100, 101–2, 104, 112 Rodman, Selden, 156 Rogers, Ginger, 120, 121, 122 Rogers, Leila, 121, 122 Rogers, Roy, 94, 165 The Romance of Helen Trent, 79 Romberg, Sigmund, 102 Rome, Harold, 104 Rooney, Andy, 208–10 Roosevelt, ...
From the Miracle of Dunkirk to Pearl Harbor and the invention of color TV, this is a must read book for young and curious minds. America in the 1940s for Kids has been written to entertain and educate.
Students take part in analysis and interpretation of various types of documents, applying critical-thinking skills to discover more about the major political, social and economic movements in American history.
For review see: M. Baud, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 108, nr. 1 (91995); p. 129
... 123 baseball, 113–114 Batista, Fulgencio, 3 Bell, Daniel, 173 Bellah, Robert, xiv, 182 Bellow, Saul, xii, 115–117 Benet, Stephen Vincent, 167 Benchley, Robert, 130 Benedict, Ruth, 108 Benedictine Rule, 174 Berle, Milton, 181 Berlin, ...