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- Preface
- World War I
- The Industrial Age, Immigration and Labor Wars
- The Roaring Twenties
- Preface – The League of Nations
- The Twenties Zeitgeist – Cultural Wars
- The Arrival of the Flapper and Sheik
- The Lost Generation
- The “Algonquin Round Table”
- The Harlem Renaissance
- Ballyhoo, Fads, Fashions and Follies
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- The Scopes Trial
- Religious Celebrities
- Car Culture and Consumer Economy
- Radio, Hollywood, and Art Deco
- Reaction to all the Cultural Change
- Prohibition
- Speakeasies and Gangsterism
- Jazz was the Sound of the Speakeasies
- The Politics of Passivity
- “The Boom”
- The Great Stock “Bubble”
- SUMMARY
- The Great Depression
- The Great Economic Disaster
- Homelessness and Hoovervilles
- The Plight of the Farmer
- The Dust Bowl
- Hoboes
- The Bonus Army
- Dance Marathons
- Hoover’s Failures
- The Liberal Reaction
- The Election of 1932
- The New Deal
- Social Security
- Opposition to the New Deal
- Prohibition and Gangsters
- Pop Culture during the Great Depression
- Race Relations
- Introduction
- The Jim Crow Experience
- Lynchings
- The Scottsboro Boys
- Racial Equality Organizations
- Segregation, Racial Hatred and Integration
- The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
- School Integration
- The Lunch Counter Sit-ins
- The Freedom Riders
- James Meredith’s Attempt to Enroll
- Desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama
- The Killing of Medgar Evers
- The March on Washington
- Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
- Freedom Summer
- The Marches from Selma
- Northern Urban Riots
- Black Nationalism and Militancy
- The Black Panther Party
- The Assassination of Martin Luther King
- World War II
- Post World War II
- The Fifties
- Introduction
- Post-war Politics
- Eisenhower’s Military-Industrial Complex Speech
- Suburbanization
- The Stereotypical Family of the Fifties
- Baby Boomers, The Consumption Society and Conformity
- Downtown Gives Way to the Shopping Mall
- Fifties Diners (Drive-ins)
- Advent and Growth of Television
- Television Shaped Family Life in The Fifties
- Religion on TV
- Sports on TV in The Fifties
- Television of News, Current Events and Politics in the Fifties
- Significant TV News Events of the Fifties
- Criticism of 1950s Television
- Polio and The Salk Vaccine
- Social Criticism in The Fifties
- The Rise of Rock & Roll in The Fifties
- Criticism of the Fifties’ Culture
- The Beat Generation
- Conclusion – The Day the Music Died
- The Vietnam War
- French Indochina after World War II
- Early American Vietnamese Policy
- The Kennedy Administration on Vietnam
- President Johnson Expands the War
- The Draft
- The Soldier’s Experience in Vietnam
- The My Lai Massacre
- Agent Orange and Napalm
- Hawks and Doves
- The Tet Offensive and its Consequences
- Nixon’s Plan for Peace
- The Troops Come Home
- Cultural Rebellion
- Woman’s Rights/The Feminist Movement
- LGBT Civil Rights
- Post Vietnam
- Conclusion
- Index of Songs
- Bibliography
- Sources
- Discography
- Copyright Disclaimer
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