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Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
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Description: From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid change. Diplomatically, economically, politically, and culturally, the United States became a major influence around the globe. On the domestic front, this period witnessed some of the most turbulent and prosperous years in American history.
Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History provides detailed coverage of all the remarkable developments within the United States during this period, as well as their dramatic impact on the rest of the world. A-Z entries address specific persons, groups, concepts, events, geographical locations, organizations, and cultural and technological phenomena. Sidebars highlight primary source materials, items of special interest, statistical data, and other information; and Cultural Landmark entries chronologically detail the music, literature, arts, and cultural history of the era. Bibliographies covering literature from the postwar era and about the era are also included, as well as illustrations and specialized indexes.
Selected Contents:
List of Sidebars
Topic Finder
Contributors
Preface
A-Z Entries
Abortion; Abscam; Adams (Sherman) Scandal; Advertising; Affirmative Action; Agency for International Development; Agricultural Workers; Agriculture; AIDS/HIV Crisis; Air Pollution; Air Traffic Controllers' Strike; Alaskan Pipeline; Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education (1969); Alliances, Foreign; Altamont Killings; American Independent Party; American Nazi Party; AmeriCorps; Anticommunism; Anti-Nuclear Power Movement; Antiwar Movement, Vietnam Era; Apollo Program; Architecture; Arms Race; Army-McCarthy Hearings; Arts, Fine; Arts Funding, Government; Asian American Groups; Atomic Weapons Testing; Atoms for Peace; Attica Prison Riot; Automobile Culture; Automobile Industry
Baby Bells; Baby Boom; Baker (Bobby) Affair; Bakke Decision (1978); Ban the Bomb Movement; Banking and Credit; Baruch Plan; Baseball; Basketball; Bay of Pigs; Beauty, Fashion, and Cosmetics; Beirut Bombings; Berlin Airlift; Berlin Wall; Bicentennial Celebrations; Billygate; Birmingham Church Bombing; Birth Control; Bitburg, Reagan Visit to; Black Muslims; Black Panthers; Black Power Movement; Blackouts, Electrical; Blue-Collar Workers; Boland Amendments; Bork Nomination; Bosnia Intervention; Boston Strangler Murders; Boxing; Bracero Program; Brady Bill; Brawley (Tawana) Affair; Bricker Amendment; Brown v. Board of Education (1954); Busing
Camp David Accords; Campaign Finance; Canada, Relations with; Capital Punishment; Caribbean, Relations with (Except Cuba); Carter Doctrine; Catonsville Nine; Censorship; Central America, Relations with; Central Intelligence Agency; Central Park Jogger; Central Treaty Organization; Chappaquiddick Affair; Checkers Speech; Chessman (Caryl) Affair; Child Rearing; China and Taiwan, Relations with; Christian Coalition; Christian Right; Church Committee Hearings; Citadel Affair; Civil Liberties; Civil Rights Act of 1964; Civil Rights Legislation and Policy; Civil Rights Movement, Through 1965; Civil Rights Movement and Black Power, After 1965; Classical Music; Club of Rome Report; College Sports; Columbia University Protest; Comic Books; Comic Strips; Committee to Re-elect the President;
Common Cause; Communications Technologies; Community Action Program; Community Reinvestment Act; Comprehensive Employment and Training Act; Computers; Congress; Congress of Racial Equality; Congressional Black Caucus; Consciousness Raising; Conservatism; Conspiracy Theories; Constitutional Amendments; Consumer Culture; Consumer Movement; Containment; Corporate Consolidation; Counterculture; Country and Western Music; Courts; Crack (Cocaine) Epidemic; Credibility Gap; Crime, Juvenile; Crime, Organized; Crime, Property; Crime, Sexual; Crime, Violent; Criminal Law and Punishment; Cuba, Relations with; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cults
Dalkon Shield Controversy; Dance; Dance, Popular; Day Care; Death and Dying; Defense Spending and Defense Industry; Delaney Clause; Democratic Party; Department of Housing and Urban Development; Diet and Food; Disabled Americans; Disco; Displaced Persons Act; Dixiecrats; Dominican Republic Invasion; Domino Theory; Donora (Pennsylvania) Smog Episode; Downsizing, Corporate; Draft, Military; Drug Culture; Drug Rehabilitation Programs
Eagleton (Thomas) Affair; Earth Day; Eastern Europe, Relations with; Economic Policy; Education, Department of; Education, Elementary and Secondary; Education, Government Policy and; Education, Higher; Eisenhower Doctrine; Election of 1946; Election of 1948; Election of 1952; Election of 1956; Election of 1960; Election of 1964; Election of 1968; Election of 1972; Election of 1976; Election of 1980; Election of 1984; Election of 1988; Election of 1992; Election of 1994; Election of 1996; Election of 2000; Election of 2004; Electronics Industry; Emily's List; Employment Act of 1946; Encounter Groups; Endangered Species Act; Enemies List; Energy; Energy, Department of; Engel v. Vitale (1962); Enron Bankruptcy; Enterprise Zones; Environmental Protection Agency; Environmentalism; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Equal Pay Act; Ethnic Studies Programs; Evangelical Christianity; Extreme Sports; Exxon Valdez Disaster
Fads; Fair Deal; Fair Packaging and Labeling Act; Fairness Doctrine; Family; Family Assistance Plan; Family Leave Act; Family Support Act; Family Values; Federal Election Campaign Act; Feminist Movement; Filibuster; Film, Documentary; Film, Feature; Film, Independent; Folk Music; Food for Peace Program; Football; Foreign Aid; Formosa Resolution; Freedom of Information Act; Freedom Riders; Freedom Schools; Fulbright Act; Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Gambling; Gay and Lesbian Politics and Culture; Gemini, Project; Generation X; Genetics; G.I. Bill; Gideon v. Wainwright (1963); Global Warming; Globalization; Goetz (Bernhard) Incident; Golf; Gonzalez (Elian) Affair; Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act; Gray Panthers; Green Berets; Greensboro Massacre; Grenada Invasion; Griswold v. Connecticut (1965); Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Gulf War; Gun Control
Haiti Incursion; Happenings; Hare Krishnas; Hart (Gary) Affair; Head Start Program; Health and Fitness; Health and Human Services, Department of; Health Care; Hearst (Patty) Kidnapping; Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964); Hells Angels; Helsinki Accords; Hijackings; Hiss (Alger) Case; Hobbies; Hollywood Ten; Homeland Security, Department of; Hoover Commission; Horton (Willie) Ads; Hotline, U.S.-Soviet; House Committee on Un-American Activities; Housing; Howard Beach Murder; Hughes (Howard) Hoax
Ice Hockey; Immigration; Impeachment of President Clinton; Inner Cities; Insider Trading Scandals; International Geophysical Year; International Institutions; Internet; Iran-Contra Affair; Iran Hostage Crisis; Iraq War; Islam; Israel, Relations with; ITT Affair
Jackson State Killings; Japan, Relations with; Jazz; Jet Set; Jewish Defense League; Job Corps; John Birch Society; Jonestown Massacre; Judaism; Junk Bonds; "Just Say No" Campaign
Kennan's Long Telegram; Kennedy (John F.) Assassination; Kent State Shootings; Kerner Report; Keynesian Economics; Kinsey Reports; Kitchen Debate; Korea (North and South), Relations with; Korean Airlines Flight 007; Korean War; Kosovo Intervention
Lance (Bert) Affair; Landrum-Griffin Act; Latino and Caribbean Peoples (Except Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans); Legionnaires' Disease; Liberalism; Literature, Fiction; Literature, Nonfiction; Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis; Love Canal; Love-Ins; Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Magnet Schools; Manson Murders; March on Washington; Mariel Boatlift; Marshall Plan; Mass Transit; Masters and Johnson Studies; Mayaguez Incident; McCarran Act; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; McClellan Committee; Media and Politics; Medicare and Medicaid; Medicine; Mental Health; Mercury, Project; Mexican Americans; Mexico, Relations with; Middle East, Relations with (Except Israel); Military Assistance Advisory Groups, U.S.; Military-Industrial Complex; Miller v. California (1973); Million Man March; Miranda v. Arizona (1966); Misery Index; Missile Gap; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Mississippi Summer Project; Model Cities Program; Montgomery Bus Boycott; Moon Landing; Moonies (Unificationists); MOVE!; Moynihan Report; Multiculturalism; Mumia Abu-Jamal Case; Music Videos; Mutual Assured Destruction; MX Missiles; My Lai Massacre
Nannygate; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; National Defense Education Act; National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities; National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; National Organization for Women; National Security Act of 1947; National Security Policy and Agencies; National Women's Conference; Native Americans; Natural Disasters and Disaster Management; Nautilus ; Neutron Bomb; New Age and Eastern Religions; New Federalism; New Frontier; New Left; New York City Financial Bailout; Newspapers and Magazines; Nixon Doctrine; North American Free Trade Agreement; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Nuremberg Trials
Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Office of Economic Opportunity; Office of Management and Budget; Offshore Oil Drilling; Oklahoma City Bombing; Olympics; Open Skies Program; Operation Bootstrap; Oppenheimer (J. Robert) Affair; Organization of American States; Ozone Depletion
Panama Canal Treaties; Panama Invasion; Payola Scandal; Peace and Freedom Party; Peace Corps; Pensions, Private; Pentagon Papers; People United to Save Humanity; Photography; Pike Committee; Planetary Exploration; Plastics; Poetry; Political Correctness; Poor People's Campaign; Pornography; Port Huron Statement; Postal Reorganization Act; Poverty; Presidency; Progressive Party, 1948; Promise Keepers; Propaganda, U.S.; Proposition 13; Psychiatry; Pueblo Incident; Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans
Quemoy and Matsu Incident
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act; Radio; Rainbow Coalition; Rap and Hip Hop; Rat Pack; Reaganomics; Redlining; Regulation and Deregulation; Reproductive Technologies; Republican Party; Rhythm and Blues; Right to Die Movement; Rio Pact; Riots, Race; Robotics; Rock and Roll; Roe v. Wade (1973); Roman Catholicism; Rosenberg Case; Ruby Ridge Shooting; Rural America; Rust Belt
Satellites; Saturday Night Massacre; Scarsdale Diet Murder; School Shootings; Science, Government Policy on; Self-Awareness Movements; Selma March; Seniors; September 11 Attacks; Service Industries; Service-Sector Workers; Sexual Revolution; Silkwood Case; Simpson (O.J.) Trial; Sit-Ins, Civil Rights; Skylab ; Social Security; Somalia Intervention; Son of Sam Murders; South America, Relations with; South Asia, Relations with; Southeast Asia, Relations with; Southeast Asia Treaty Organization; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Southern Manifesto; Southern Strategy; Soviet Union/Russia, Relations with; Space Shuttle; Spies and Spying; Sports, Participatory; Sports Broadcasting; St. Lawrence Seaway; Stagflation; Stark Incident; States' Rights; Steel Industry; Stock Market Crash of 1987; Stonewall Riots; Strategic Air Command; Strategic Arms Treaties; Strategic Defense Initiative; Streaking;
Strikes; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Students for a Democratic Society; Sub-Saharan Africa, Relations with; Suburbia; Suez Crisis; Sun Belt; Supply-Side Economics; Surfing; Swine Flu; Symbionese Liberation Army; Synanon
Taft-Hartley Act; Tailhook Scandal; Teach-Ins; Teenagers; Television; Tennis; Terrorism, Domestic; Terrorism, Foreign; Test-Tube Babies; Tet Offensive; Thalidomide; Theater; Theme Parks; Third Parties; Thomas (Clarence) Hearings; Three Mile Island Disaster; hresher Disaster; Till (Emmett) Lynching; Tobacco and Tobacco Industry; Tort Law; Toxic Shock Syndrome; Tranquilizers; Transcendental Meditation; Transportation; Travelgate; Truman Doctrine; Truth-in-Lending Act; Tylenol Tampering Incident
U-2 Incident; Unabomber Affair; Unemployment; Unidentified Flying Objects; Unions; United Nations, Relations with; Urban Renewal
Vesco (Robert) Affair; Vietnam War; Vincennes Incident; Violence, Political; Voice of America; Volunteers in Service to America; Voting Issues; Voting Rights Act
Waco Incident; Wall Street; War on Poverty; War Powers Act; Warren Commission; Water Pollution and Water Pollution Policy; Watergate; Weapons, Nuclear; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Weathermen; Welfare and Public Assistance; Western Europe, Relations with; White Citizens' Councils; White Ethnics; White Supremacist Groups; White-Collar Workers; Whitewater Scandal; Wildlife and Wilderness; Women and Work; Women's Studies; Woodstock Music Festival; World's Fairs; Wounded Knee
X Article
Yippies; Young Americans for Freedom
Zero Population Growth
Cultural Landmarks
The Forties and Fifties
The Sixties
The Seventies
The Eighties
The Nineties to the Present
Glossary
Bibliography
Indexes
General Index
Biographical Index
Geographical Index
Review(s): "...an important contribution to American historiography. ...the 550 signed articles are well written by an impressive list of scholars... Unrivaled in its depth and scope, this is a unique contribution to the American history reference literature and is highly recommended for all school and undergraduate collections and public libraries that serve the interested general reader." -- American Reference Books Annual, Vol.38
"...a valuable resource. Because of the importance and diversity of the topics covered, it could easily find a home in high school, undergraduate and public libraries." -- Against the Grain
"...this work is comprehensive in its coverage, with references to point interested persons to more material. Recommended to academic and public libraries." -- Library Journal
"...the in-depth articles provide detailed background information and address topics that align with standard curricula. Researchers will appreciate the breadth and depth of coverage. This unique and satisfying resource is recommended for large public, academic, and secondary collections that support upper-level U.S. history courses." -- Booklist
"The 550 alphabetically arranged articles are well organized and will be accessible to readers who have little background on the topics. ... Controversial subjects receive balanced treatment ... succeeds in covering a complicated era in a style and format that is both useful and engaging." -- School Library Journal
    
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