An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
Edited by James Ciment
Includes: Topic Finder, sidebars, cultural landmarks, photos, glossary, master bibliography
Awards:
Best Reference, Library Journal
Outstanding Reference Source, Reference and User Services Association, ALA
Reviews:
“[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
“[T]his work is comprehensive in its coverage, with references to point interested persons to more material. Recommended to academic and public libraries.” Library Journal
“[T]he 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
Description: From the outbreak of the Cold War to the early twenty-first century, the period in American history since World War II has been filled with momentous events and major change. Diplomatically, economically, politically, and culturally, the United States has emerged as the world’s last remaining superpower, while encountering new challenges around the globe. On the domestic front, the postwar era has witnessed some of the most turbulent and prosperous years in U.S. history.
Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History provides detailed and up-to-date coverage of the remarkable developments in U.S. affairs during this period, as well as their far-reaching effects on the rest of the world. More than five hundred A-Z entries shed light on notable events, movements, organizations, geographical locations, concepts, and artistic, cultural, and scientific trends. Sidebars highlight colorful figures, telling incidents, and other items of special interest; and Cultural Landmark entries detail the music, literature, arts, and cultural history of the era, decade by decade. A rich collection of photographs helps bring the era to life, and a Master Bibliography provides a comprehensive reference resource for further investigation.
Contents:
Cultural Landmarks
Glossary
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 and Alcohol 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
Election of 2006
Election of 2008
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
GonzÁlez (EliÁn) 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
Thresher 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
