ABSTRACT

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 are illustrations and specialized indexes.

part |1413 pages

A-D Entries

letter |103 pages

A

entry |5 pages

Abortion

entry |2 pages

Abscam

entry |3 pages

Adams (Sherman) Scandal

entry |6 pages

Advertising

entry |2 pages

Affirmative Action

entry |1 pages

Africa, Relations with

entry |3 pages

Agency for International Development

entry |5 pages

Agricultural Workers

entry |5 pages

Agriculture

entry |5 pages

AIDS/HIV Crisis

entry |7 pages

Air Pollution

entry |2 pages

Air Traffic Controllers' Strike

entry |2 pages

Alaskan Pipeline

entry |2 pages

Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education (1969)

entry |7 pages

Alliances, Foreign

entry |1 pages

Altamont Killings

entry |2 pages

American Independent Party

entry |1 pages

American Indians

entry |2 pages

American Nazi Party

entry |2 pages

Americorps

entry |9 pages

Anticommunism

entry |3 pages

Anti-Nuclear Power Movement

entry |9 pages

Antiwar Movement, Vietnam Era

entry |2 pages

Apollo Program

entry |5 pages

Architecture

entry |5 pages

Arms Race

entry |3 pages

Army-McCarthy Hearings

entry |6 pages

Arts, Fine

entry |5 pages

Arts Funding, Government

entry |7 pages

Asian American Groups

entry |1 pages

Atomic Energy

entry |1 pages

Atomic Weapons

entry |3 pages

Atomic Weapons Testing

entry |2 pages

Atoms for Peace

entry |3 pages

Attica Prison Riot

entry |5 pages

Automobile Culture

entry |4 pages

Automobile Industry

letter |71 pages

B

entry |2 pages

Baby Bells

entry |3 pages

Baby Boom

entry |2 pages

Baker (Bobby) Affair

entry |2 pages

Bakke Decision (1978)

entry |3 pages

Ban the Bomb Movement

entry |5 pages

Banking and Credit

entry |2 pages

Baruch Plan

entry |6 pages

Baseball

entry |6 pages

Basketball

entry |2 pages

Bay of Pigs

entry |9 pages

Beauty, Fashion, and Cosmetics

entry |2 pages

Beirut Bombings

entry |3 pages

Berlin Airlift

entry |3 pages

Berlin Wall

entry |2 pages

Bicentennial Celebrations

entry |2 pages

Billygate

entry |3 pages

Birmingham Church Bombing

entry |3 pages

Birth Control

entry |2 pages

Bitburg, Reagan Visit to

entry |2 pages

Black Muslims

entry |3 pages

Black Panthers

entry |2 pages

Black Power Movement

entry |3 pages

Blackouts, Electrical

entry |4 pages

Blue-Collar Workers

entry |2 pages

Boland Amendments

entry |2 pages

Bork Nomination

entry |3 pages

Bosnia Intervention

entry |3 pages

Boston Strangler Murders

entry |5 pages

Boxing

entry |3 pages

Bracero Program

entry |2 pages

Brady Bill

entry |1 pages

Brawley (Tawana) Affair

entry |2 pages

Bricker Amendment

entry |3 pages

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

entry |1 pages

Buddhism

entry |3 pages

Busing

letter |182 pages

C

entry |2 pages

Camp David Accords

entry |6 pages

Campaign Finance

entry |4 pages

Canada, Relations with

entry |4 pages

Capital Punishment

entry |5 pages

Caribbean, Relations with (Except Cuba)

entry |2 pages

Carter Doctrine

entry |1 pages

Catholicism

entry |1 pages

Catonsville Nine

entry |4 pages

Censorship

entry |5 pages

Central America, Relations with

entry |4 pages

Central Intelligence Agency

entry |1 pages

Central Park Jogger

entry |2 pages

Central Treaty Organization

entry |2 pages

Chappaquiddick Affair

entry |2 pages

Checkers Speech

entry |2 pages

Chessman (Caryl) Affair

entry |5 pages

Child Rearing

entry |5 pages

China and Taiwan, Relations with

entry |2 pages

Christian Coalition

entry |6 pages

Christian Right

entry |2 pages

Church Committee Hearings

entry |2 pages

Citadel Affair

entry |5 pages

Civil Liberties

entry |2 pages

Civil Rights Act of 1964

entry |7 pages

Civil Rights Legislation and Policy

entry |6 pages

Civil Rights Movement, through 1965

entry |6 pages

Civil Rights Movement and Black Power, after 1965

entry |2 pages

Classical Music

entry |1 pages

Club of Rome Report

entry |5 pages

College Sports

entry |2 pages

Columbia University Protest

entry |5 pages

Comic Books

entry |2 pages

Comic Strips

entry |2 pages

Committee to Re-Elect the President

entry |2 pages

Common Cause

entry |2 pages

Communications Technologies

entry |2 pages

Community Action Program

entry |2 pages

Community Reinvestment Act

entry |2 pages

Comprehensive Employment and Training Act

entry |9 pages

Computers

entry |8 pages

Congress

entry |2 pages

Congress of Racial Equality

entry |2 pages

Congressional Black Caucus

entry |1 pages

Consciousness Raising

entry |9 pages

Conservatism

entry |3 pages

Conspiracy Theories

entry |3 pages

Constitutional Amendments

entry |8 pages

Consumer Culture

entry |5 pages

Consumer Movement

entry |3 pages

Containment

entry |5 pages

Corporate Consolidation

entry |6 pages

Counterculture

entry |5 pages

Country and Western Music

entry |6 pages

Courts

entry |2 pages

Crack (Cocaine) Epidemic

entry |2 pages

Credibility Gap

entry |1 pages

Credit Cards

entry |5 pages

Crime, Juvenile

entry |5 pages

Crime, Organized

entry |3 pages

Crime, Property

entry |5 pages

Crime, Sexual

entry |6 pages

Crime, Violent

entry |4 pages

Criminal Law and Punishment

entry |6 pages

Cuba, Relations with

entry |3 pages

Cuban Missile Crisis

entry |3 pages

Cults

letter |50 pages

D

entry |2 pages

Dalkon Shield Controversy

entry |2 pages

Dance

entry |4 pages

Dance, Popular

entry |3 pages

Day Care

entry |3 pages

Death and Dying

entry |7 pages

Defense Spending and Defense Industry

entry |2 pages

Delaney Clause

entry |6 pages

Democratic Party

entry |2 pages

Department of Housing and Urban Development

entry |7 pages

Diet and Food

entry |4 pages

Disabled Americans

entry |4 pages

Disco

entry |2 pages

Displaced Persons Act

entry |3 pages

Dixiecrats

entry |3 pages

Dominican Republic Invasion

entry |1 pages

Domino Theory

entry |2 pages

Donora (Pennsylvania) Smog Episode

entry |3 pages

Downsizing, Corporate

entry |2 pages

Draft, Military

entry |6 pages

Drug Culture

entry |2 pages

Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs

letter |108 pages

E

entry |1 pages

Eagleton (Thomas) Affair

entry |2 pages

Earth Day

entry |5 pages

Eastern Europe, Relations with

entry |8 pages

Economic Policy

entry |2 pages

Education, Department of

entry |6 pages

Education, Elementary and Secondary

entry |5 pages

Education, Government Policy and

entry |9 pages

Education, Higher

entry |2 pages

Eisenhower Doctrine

entry |1 pages

Elderly

entry |2 pages

Election of 1946

entry |3 pages

Election of 1948

entry |3 pages

Election of 1952

entry |2 pages

Election of 1956

entry |2 pages

Election of 1960

entry |4 pages

Election of 1964

entry |2 pages

Election of 1968

entry |3 pages

Election of 1972

entry |3 pages

Election of 1976

entry |3 pages

Election of 1980

entry |2 pages

Election of 1984

entry |2 pages

Election of 1988

entry |3 pages

Election of 1992

entry |2 pages

Election of 1994

entry |2 pages

Election of 1996

entry |3 pages

Election of 2000

entry |3 pages

Election of 2004

entry |5 pages

Electronics Industry

entry |2 pages

Emily's List

entry |2 pages

Employment Act of 1946

entry |2 pages

Encounter Groups

entry |2 pages

Endangered Species Act

entry |2 pages

Enemies List

entry |8 pages

Energy

entry |2 pages

Energy, Department of

entry |2 pages

Engel v. Vitale (1962)

entry |3 pages

Enron Bankruptcy

entry |2 pages

Enterprise Zones

entry |4 pages

Environmental Protection Agency

entry |10 pages

Environmentalism

entry |2 pages

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

entry |2 pages

Equal Pay Act

entry |3 pages

Ethnic Studies Programs

entry |9 pages

Evangelical Christianity

entry |2 pages

Extreme Sports

entry |2 pages

Exxon Valdez Disaster

letter |61 pages

F

entry |5 pages

Fads

entry |2 pages

Fair Deal

entry |1 pages

Fair Packaging and Labeling Act

entry |2 pages

Fairness Doctrine

entry |5 pages

Family

entry |2 pages

Family Assistance Plan

entry |2 pages

Family Leave Act

entry |1 pages

Family Support Act

entry |2 pages

Family Values

entry |1 pages

Fashion

entry |2 pages

Federal Election Campaign Act

entry |8 pages

Feminist Movement

entry |2 pages

Filibuster

entry |4 pages

Film, Documentary

entry |9 pages

Film, Feature

entry |4 pages

Film, Independent

entry |1 pages

Fine Arts

entry |4 pages

Folk Music

entry |1 pages

Food

entry |2 pages

Food for Peace Program

entry |7 pages

Football

entry |4 pages

Foreign Aid

entry |2 pages

Formosa Resolution

entry |3 pages

Freedom of Information Act

entry |3 pages

Freedom Riders

entry |2 pages

Freedom Schools

entry |2 pages

Fulbright Act

entry |2 pages

Furman v. Georgia (1972)

letter |54 pages

G

entry |5 pages

Gambling

entry |11 pages

Gay and Lesbian Politics and Culture

entry |2 pages

Gemini, Project

entry |1 pages

Generation X

entry |5 pages

Genetics

entry |2 pages

G.I. Bill

entry |2 pages

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

entry |6 pages

Global Warming

entry |8 pages

Globalization

entry |2 pages

Goetz (Bernhard) Incident

entry |3 pages

Golf

entry |3 pages

Gonzalez (Elian) Affair

entry |1 pages

Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act

entry |2 pages

Gray Panthers

entry |2 pages

Green Berets

entry |1 pages

Green Party

entry |2 pages

Greensboro Massacre

entry |3 pages

Grenada Invasion

entry |3 pages

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

entry |2 pages

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

entry |6 pages

Gulf War

entry |3 pages

Gun Control

letter |43 pages

H

entry |3 pages

Haiti Incursion

entry |2 pages

Happenings

entry |3 pages

Hare Krishnas

entry |1 pages

Hart (Gary) Affair

entry |3 pages

Head Start Program

entry |5 pages

Health and Fitness

entry |2 pages

Health and Human Services, Department of

entry |6 pages

Health Care

entry |2 pages

Hearst (Patty) Kidnapping

entry |1 pages

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)

entry |3 pages

Hells Angels

entry |3 pages

Helsinki Accords

entry |2 pages

Hijackings

entry |1 pages

Hip Hop

entry |1 pages

Hispanics

entry |2 pages

Hiss (Alger) Case

entry |1 pages

HIV/AIDS

entry |3 pages

Hobbies

entry |4 pages

Hollywood Ten

entry |2 pages

Homeland Security, Department of

entry |2 pages

Hoover Commission

entry |2 pages

Horton (Willie) Ads

entry |2 pages

Hotline, U.S.-Soviet

entry |3 pages

House Committee on Un-American Activities

entry |4 pages

Housing

entry |2 pages

Howard Beach Murder

entry |2 pages

Hughes (Howard) Hoax

letter |47 pages

I

entry |2 pages

Ice Hockey

entry |9 pages

Immigration

entry |3 pages

Impeachment of President Clinton

entry |9 pages

Inner Cities

entry |3 pages

Insider Trading Scandals

entry |1 pages

International Geophysical Year

entry |5 pages

International Institutions

entry |5 pages

Internet

entry |3 pages

Iran-Contra Affair

entry |2 pages

Iran Hostage Crisis

entry |6 pages

Iraq War

entry |4 pages

Islam

entry |6 pages

Israel, Relations with

entry |2 pages

ITT Affair

letter |20 pages

J

entry |2 pages

Jackson State Killings

entry |3 pages

Japan, Relations with

entry |4 pages

Jazz

entry |2 pages

Jet Set

entry |2 pages

Jewish Defense League

entry |2 pages

Job Corps

entry |2 pages

John Birch Society

entry |3 pages

Jonestown Massacre

entry |6 pages

Judaism

entry |2 pages

Junk Bonds

entry |2 pages

“Just Say No” Campaign

letter |26 pages

K

entry |2 pages

Kennan's Long Telegram

entry |3 pages

Kennedy (John F.) Assassination

entry |3 pages

Kent State Shootings

entry |2 pages

Kerner Report

entry |3 pages

Keynesian Economics

entry |2 pages

Kinsey Reports

entry |3 pages

Kitchen Debate

entry |4 pages

Korea (North and South), Relations with

entry |2 pages

Korean Airlines Flight 007

entry |9 pages

Korean War

entry |3 pages

Kosovo Intervention

letter |35 pages

L

entry |1 pages

Lance (Bert) Affair

entry |1 pages

Landrum-Griffin Act

entry |10 pages

Latino and Caribbean Peoples (Except Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans)

entry |1 pages

Legionnaires' Disease

entry |10 pages

Liberalism

entry |5 pages

Literature, Fiction

entry |6 pages

Literature, Nonfiction

entry |3 pages

Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis

entry |1 pages

Long Telegram

entry |2 pages

Love Canal

entry |2 pages

Love-Ins

entry |2 pages

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

letter |80 pages

M

entry |1 pages

Mad

entry |1 pages

Magazines

entry |2 pages

Magnet Schools

entry |2 pages

Manson Murders

entry |3 pages

March on Washington

entry |3 pages

Mariel Boatlift

entry |2 pages

Marshall Plan

entry |3 pages

Mass Transit

entry |2 pages

Masters and Johnson Studies

entry |2 pages

Mayaguez Incident

entry |2 pages

McCarran Act

entry |2 pages

McCarran-Walter Immigration Act

entry |2 pages

McClellan Committee

entry |10 pages

Media and Politics

entry |2 pages

Medicare and Medicaid

entry |7 pages

Medicine

entry |5 pages

Mental Health

entry |2 pages

Mercury, Project

entry |8 pages

Mexican Americans

entry |4 pages

Mexico, Relations with

entry |9 pages

Middle East, Relations with (Except Israel)

entry |3 pages

Military Assistance Advisory Groups, U.S.

entry |1 pages

Military-Industrial Complex

entry |2 pages

Miller v. California (1973)

entry |2 pages

Million Man March

entry |2 pages

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

entry |2 pages

Misery Index

entry |2 pages

Missile Gap

entry |2 pages

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

entry |2 pages

Mississippi Summer Project

entry |2 pages

Model Cities Program

entry |2 pages

Montgomery Bus Boycott

entry |2 pages

Moon Landing

entry |3 pages

Moonies (Unificationists)

entry |2 pages

Move!

entry |2 pages

Moynihan Report

entry |2 pages

Multiculturalism

entry |2 pages

Mumia Abu-Jamal Case

entry |3 pages

Music Videos

entry |2 pages

Mutual Assured Destruction

entry |2 pages

MX Missiles

entry |3 pages

My Lai Massacre

letter |61 pages

N

entry |1 pages

Nannygate

entry |3 pages

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

entry |2 pages

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA

entry |3 pages

National Defense Education Act

entry |2 pages

National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities

entry |2 pages

National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

entry |3 pages

National Organization for Women

entry |3 pages

National Security Act of 1947

entry |6 pages

National Security Policy and Agencies

entry |2 pages

National Women's Conference

entry |9 pages

Native Americans

entry |5 pages

Natural Disasters and Disaster Management

entry |2 pages

Nautilus

entry |2 pages

Neutron Bomb

entry |5 pages

New Age and Eastern Religions

entry |2 pages

New Federalism

entry |2 pages

New Frontier

entry |7 pages

New Left

entry |1 pages

New York City Financial Bailout

entry |8 pages

Newspapers and Magazines

entry |2 pages

Nixon Doctrine

entry |2 pages

North American Free Trade Agreement

entry |4 pages

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

entry |4 pages

Nuclear Energy

entry |2 pages

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

entry |2 pages

Nuremberg Trials

letter |15 pages

O

entry |3 pages

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

entry |2 pages

Office of Economic Opportunity

entry |2 pages

Office of Management and Budget

entry |3 pages

Offshore Oil Drilling

entry |2 pages

Oklahoma City Bombing

entry |4 pages

Olympics

entry |1 pages

Open Skies Program

entry |2 pages

Operation Bootstrap

entry |2 pages

Oppenheimer (J. Robert) Affair

entry |2 pages

Organization of American States

entry |2 pages

Ozone Depletion

letter |57 pages

P

entry |2 pages

Panama Canal Treaties

entry |2 pages

Panama Invasion

entry |2 pages

Payola Scandal

entry |2 pages

Peace and Freedom Party

entry |2 pages

Peace Corps

entry |3 pages

Pensions, Private

entry |2 pages

Pentagon Papers

entry |2 pages

People United to Save Humanity

entry |4 pages

Photography

entry |2 pages

Pike Committee

entry |3 pages

Planetary Exploration

entry |2 pages

Plastics

entry |4 pages

Poetry

entry |2 pages

Political Correctness

entry |3 pages

Poor People's Campaign

entry |3 pages

Pornography

entry |2 pages

Port Huron Statement

entry |1 pages

Postal Reorganization Act

entry |4 pages

Poverty

entry |9 pages

Presidency

entry |3 pages

Progressive Party, 1948

entry |2 pages

Promise Keepers

entry |3 pages

Propaganda, U.S.

entry |2 pages

Proposition 13

entry |7 pages

Psychiatry

entry |3 pages

Pueblo Incident

entry |6 pages

Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans

letter |2 pages

Q

entry |2 pages

Quemoy and Matsu Incident

letter |65 pages

R

entry |1 pages

Race Riots

entry |3 pages

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

entry |4 pages

Radio

entry |2 pages

Rainbow Coalition

entry |5 pages

Rap and Hip Hop

entry |1 pages

Rape

entry |2 pages

Rat Pack

entry |3 pages

Reaganomics

entry |3 pages

Redlining

entry |1 pages

Reform Party

entry |4 pages

Regulation and Deregulation

entry |4 pages

Reproductive Technologies

entry |7 pages

Republican Party

entry |5 pages

Rhythm and Blues

entry |1 pages

Rico

entry |2 pages

Right to Die Movement

entry |1 pages

Rio Pact

entry |6 pages

Riots, Race

entry |3 pages

Robotics

entry |9 pages

Rock and Roll

entry |3 pages

Roe v. Wade (1973)

entry |5 pages

Roman Catholicism

entry |3 pages

Rosenberg Case

entry |2 pages

Ruby Ridge Shooting

entry |6 pages

Rural America

entry |1 pages

Russia, Relations with

entry |2 pages

Rust Belt

letter |130 pages

S

entry |2 pages

Satellites

entry |2 pages

Saturday Night Massacre

entry |2 pages

Scarsdale Diet Murder

entry |1 pages

School Busing

entry |2 pages

School Shootings

entry |4 pages

Science, Government Policy and

entry |3 pages

Self-Awareness Movements

entry |3 pages

Selma March

entry |5 pages

Seniors

entry |5 pages

September 11 Attacks

entry |6 pages

Service Industries

entry |5 pages

Service-Sector Workers

entry |9 pages

Sexual Revolution

entry |2 pages

Silkwood Case

entry |3 pages

Simpson (O.J.) Trial

entry |2 pages

Sit-Ins, Civil Rights

entry |2 pages

Skylab

entry |1 pages

Smog

entry |3 pages

Social Security

entry |2 pages

Somalia Intervention

entry |2 pages

Son of Sam Murders

entry |4 pages

South America, Relations with

entry |5 pages

South Asia, Relations with

entry |6 pages

Southeast Asia, Relations with

entry |1 pages

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

entry |3 pages

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

entry |2 pages

Southern Manifesto

entry |3 pages

Southern Strategy

entry |6 pages

Soviet Union/Russia, Relations with

entry |3 pages

Space Shuttle

entry |7 pages

Spies and Spying

entry |6 pages

Sports, Participatory

entry |5 pages

Sports Broadcasting

entry |2 pages

St. Lawrence Seaway

entry |2 pages

Stagflation

entry |2 pages

Stark Incident

entry |2 pages

States' Rights

entry |4 pages

Steel Industry

entry |1 pages

Stock Market

entry |2 pages

Stock Market Crash of 1987

entry |2 pages

Stonewall Riots

entry |3 pages

Strategic Air Command

entry |3 pages

Strategic Arms Treaties

entry |3 pages

Strategic Defense Initiative

entry |1 pages

Streaking

entry |6 pages

Strikes

entry |2 pages

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

entry |2 pages

Students for a Democratic Society

entry |6 pages

Sub-Saharan Africa, Relations with

entry |5 pages

Suburbia

entry |3 pages

Suez Crisis

entry |3 pages

Sun Belt

entry |2 pages

Supply-Side Economics

entry |3 pages

Surfing

entry |2 pages

Swine Flu

entry |2 pages

Symbionese Liberation Army

entry |2 pages

Synanon

letter |70 pages

T

entry |2 pages

Taft-Hartley Act

entry |2 pages

Tailhook Scandal

entry |2 pages

Teach-Ins

entry |3 pages

Teenagers

entry |10 pages

Television

entry |3 pages

Tennis

entry |5 pages

Terrorism, Domestic

entry |8 pages

Terrorism, Foreign

entry |2 pages

Test-Tube Babies

entry |2 pages

Tet Offensive

entry |2 pages

Thalidomide

entry |6 pages

Theater

entry |3 pages

Theme Parks

entry |5 pages

Third Parties

entry |2 pages

Thomas (Clarence) Hearings

entry |3 pages

Three Mile Island Disaster

entry |2 pages

Thresher Disaster

entry |2 pages

Till (Emmett) Lynching

entry |6 pages

Tobacco and Tobacco Industry

entry |1 pages

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

entry |4 pages

Tort Law

entry |2 pages

Toxic Shock Syndrome

entry |3 pages

Tranquilizers

entry |2 pages

Transcendental Meditation

entry |7 pages

Transportation

entry |2 pages

Travelgate

entry |2 pages

Truman Doctrine

entry |2 pages

Truth-In-Lending Act

entry |2 pages

Tylenol Tampering Incident

letter |19 pages

U

entry |2 pages

U-2 Incident

entry |2 pages

Unabomber Affair

entry |4 pages

Unemployment

entry |1 pages

Unidentified Flying Objects

entry |7 pages

Unions

entry |5 pages

United Nations, Relations with

entry |2 pages

Urban Renewal

letter |24 pages

V

entry |1 pages

Vesco (Robert) Affair

entry |12 pages

Vietnam War

entry |2 pages

Vincennes Incident

entry |4 pages

Violence, Political

entry |1 pages

Vista

entry |3 pages

Voice of America

entry |2 pages

Volunteers in Service to America

entry |4 pages

Voting Issues

entry |3 pages

Voting Rights Act

letter |71 pages

W

entry |2 pages

Waco Incident

entry |5 pages

Wall Street

entry |3 pages

War on Poverty

entry |2 pages

War Powers Act

entry |3 pages

Warren Commission

entry |4 pages

Water Pollution and Water Pollution Policy

entry |5 pages

Watergate

entry |8 pages

Weapons, Nuclear

entry |5 pages

Weapons of Mass Destruction

entry |2 pages

Weathermen

entry |6 pages

Welfare and Public Assistance

entry |6 pages

Western Europe, Relations with

entry |2 pages

White Citizens' Councils

entry |5 pages

White Ethnics

entry |3 pages

White Supremacist Groups

entry |4 pages

White-Collar Workers

entry |4 pages

Whitewater Scandal

entry |5 pages

Wildlife and Wilderness

entry |7 pages

Women and Work

entry |3 pages

Women's Studies

entry |2 pages

Woodstock Music Festival

entry |3 pages

World's Fairs

entry |3 pages

Wounded Knee

letter |1 pages

X

entry |1 pages

X Article

letter |2 pages

Y

entry |2 pages

Yippies

entry |1 pages

Young Americans for Freedom

letter |1 pages

Z

entry |1 pages

Zero Population Growth

part |107 pages

Cultural Landmarks

chapter |26 pages

The Forties and Fifties

chapter |24 pages

The Sixties

chapter |22 pages

The Seventies

chapter |19 pages

The Eighties

chapter |13 pages

The Nineties to the Present