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  • Preface
  • World War I
    • The Start of the War
    • The Western Front
    • The Christmas Truce of 1914
    • The Southern Front-Gallipoli
    • German Submarine Warfare
    • The United States Enters the War
    • Segregated Armed Forces
    • The End of the War
  • The Industrial Age, Immigration and Labor Wars
    • The Industrial Age
    • Ellis Island and Immigration
    • Xenophobia
    • Sacco and Vanzetti
    • The Rise of Labor Unions
    • Working Conditions in Mines and Mills
    • Famous Mine and Mill Strikes
    • Labor in the Textile Mills
    • The Lawrence Mill Strike
    • The Almanac Singers
    • Later-Day Labor Issues
  • 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
      • Radio
      • Art Deco
    • Reaction to all the Cultural Change
    • Prohibition
    • Speakeasies and Gangsterism
    • Jazz was the Sound of the Speakeasies
    • The Politics of Passivity
      • Warren G. Harding
      • Calvin Coolidge
    • “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
      • National Recovery Administration
      • Agricultural Adjustment Administration
      • Farm Security Administration
      • Civilian Conservation Corps
      • Civil Works Administration
      • Works Progress Administration
      • Public Works Administration
      • Tennessee Valley Authority
    • 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
    • Inter-war Isolationism
      • The World Marches toward Armageddon
      • The Rise of Italian Fascism
      • The Spanish Civil War
      • Japanese Expansion in the Pacific
    • The Start of World War Two
    • Lend-Lease
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Internment of Japanese-Americans
    • The War in the Atlantic
      • The Battle of Britain
      • Operation Barbarossa
      • Russian Campaign Summer 1942
      • The Battle of Stalingrad
      • The 1944 Warsaw Uprising
    • Mediterranean Campaign and Invasion of Italy
      • The Normandy Landings, D-Day
      • The Battle of the Bulge
    • The Holocaust
    • The Nuremberg Trials
    • The Pacific Theatre
      • The Pacific Theatre – Island hopping
      • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • The Home Front
      • War Time Production
      • Music and News on the Home Front
      • Entertaining the Troops
  • Post World War II
    • The Cold War
    • The Atomic Scare
    • The Berlin Airlift
    • The Korean “Police Action”
    • The Red Scare
      • The House Un-American Activities Committee
      • McCarthyism and Red Hunting
      • Blacklisting
    • Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Berlin
  • The Fifties
    • Introduction
    • Post-war Politics
      • The 1952 Presidential Election
      • The 1956 Presidential Election
      • The 1960 Presidential Election
    • 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
      • Game Shows/Quiz Shows
      • Westerns
      • Kid Shows
      • Sit-Coms
      • Comedy and Variety Shows
      • Anthology Shows
      • 1950s Soap Operas
    • Religion on TV
      • Norman Vincent Peale
      • Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
      • Billy Graham – William Franklin Graham Jr.
    • Sports on TV in The Fifties
      • Major League Baseball during the 1950s
      • Professional Football in The Fifties
      • College Football during the Fifties
      • Boxing on TV in the Fifties
      • Other Sports on TV in The Fifties
        • NBA/NCAA Basketball
        • Hockey
    • Television of News, Current Events and Politics in the Fifties
    • Significant TV News Events of the Fifties
      • Kefauver Hearings (1950-51)
      • Nixon’s “Checkers” Speech
      • Edward R. Murrow-See It Now
      • McCarthy-Army Hearings
      • MacArthur’s Triumphant Return
      • Presidential Nominating Conventions
      • Presidential Press Conferences
      • Kennedy-Nixon debates
    • Criticism of 1950s Television
    • Polio and The Salk Vaccine
    • Social Criticism in The Fifties
      • The Affluent Society Demanded Conformity
      • Women’s Role in the 1950’s
      • The Fifties’ Teenage Phenomenon
      • Hollywood – Heroes or Hoods
      • West Side Story
    • The Rise of Rock & Roll in The Fifties
      • Rock and Roll is Here to Stay
      • Transition from Pop to Rock & Roll
      • Rock & Roll Stars and Personalities
      • Criticism of “The Devil’s Music” (Rock & Roll)
      • Doo Wops/Street Corner Harmony
      • White Cover Records
      • American Bandstand
    • Criticism of the Fifties’ Culture
      • Revolutionary Road
      • The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
      • The Lonely Crowd
      • The Organization Man
      • The Feminine Mystique
      • The Catcher in the Rye
      • Ayn Rand – “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”
    • 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
    • Cultural Rebellion Introduction
    • The Flower Children/Hippies/LSD
    • Haight Ashbury
    • Communes
  • Woman’s Rights/The Feminist Movement
    • Women’s Liberation
    • The Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.)
    • The Sexual Revolution
    • Abortion and the Right to Choose
  • LGBT Civil Rights
    • Stonewall Inn Riots
    • HIV/AIDS – not just a “gay plague”
    • The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Menu
  • Preface
  • World War I
    • The Start of the War
    • The Western Front
    • The Christmas Truce of 1914
    • The Southern Front-Gallipoli
    • German Submarine Warfare
    • The United States Enters the War
    • Segregated Armed Forces
    • The End of the War
  • The Industrial Age, Immigration and Labor Wars
    • The Industrial Age
    • Ellis Island and Immigration
    • Xenophobia
    • Sacco and Vanzetti
    • The Rise of Labor Unions
    • Working Conditions in Mines and Mills
    • Famous Mine and Mill Strikes
    • Labor in the Textile Mills
    • The Lawrence Mill Strike
    • The Almanac Singers
    • Later-Day Labor Issues
  • 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
      • Radio
      • Art Deco
    • Reaction to all the Cultural Change
    • Prohibition
    • Speakeasies and Gangsterism
    • Jazz was the Sound of the Speakeasies
    • The Politics of Passivity
      • Warren G. Harding
      • Calvin Coolidge
    • “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
      • National Recovery Administration
      • Agricultural Adjustment Administration
      • Farm Security Administration
      • Civilian Conservation Corps
      • Civil Works Administration
      • Works Progress Administration
      • Public Works Administration
      • Tennessee Valley Authority
    • 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
    • Inter-war Isolationism
      • The World Marches toward Armageddon
      • The Rise of Italian Fascism
      • The Spanish Civil War
      • Japanese Expansion in the Pacific
    • The Start of World War Two
    • Lend-Lease
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Internment of Japanese-Americans
    • The War in the Atlantic
      • The Battle of Britain
      • Operation Barbarossa
      • Russian Campaign Summer 1942
      • The Battle of Stalingrad
      • The 1944 Warsaw Uprising
    • Mediterranean Campaign and Invasion of Italy
      • The Normandy Landings, D-Day
      • The Battle of the Bulge
    • The Holocaust
    • The Nuremberg Trials
    • The Pacific Theatre
      • The Pacific Theatre – Island hopping
      • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • The Home Front
      • War Time Production
      • Music and News on the Home Front
      • Entertaining the Troops
  • Post World War II
    • The Cold War
    • The Atomic Scare
    • The Berlin Airlift
    • The Korean “Police Action”
    • The Red Scare
      • The House Un-American Activities Committee
      • McCarthyism and Red Hunting
      • Blacklisting
    • Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Berlin
  • The Fifties
    • Introduction
    • Post-war Politics
      • The 1952 Presidential Election
      • The 1956 Presidential Election
      • The 1960 Presidential Election
    • 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
      • Game Shows/Quiz Shows
      • Westerns
      • Kid Shows
      • Sit-Coms
      • Comedy and Variety Shows
      • Anthology Shows
      • 1950s Soap Operas
    • Religion on TV
      • Norman Vincent Peale
      • Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
      • Billy Graham – William Franklin Graham Jr.
    • Sports on TV in The Fifties
      • Major League Baseball during the 1950s
      • Professional Football in The Fifties
      • College Football during the Fifties
      • Boxing on TV in the Fifties
      • Other Sports on TV in The Fifties
        • NBA/NCAA Basketball
        • Hockey
    • Television of News, Current Events and Politics in the Fifties
    • Significant TV News Events of the Fifties
      • Kefauver Hearings (1950-51)
      • Nixon’s “Checkers” Speech
      • Edward R. Murrow-See It Now
      • McCarthy-Army Hearings
      • MacArthur’s Triumphant Return
      • Presidential Nominating Conventions
      • Presidential Press Conferences
      • Kennedy-Nixon debates
    • Criticism of 1950s Television
    • Polio and The Salk Vaccine
    • Social Criticism in The Fifties
      • The Affluent Society Demanded Conformity
      • Women’s Role in the 1950’s
      • The Fifties’ Teenage Phenomenon
      • Hollywood – Heroes or Hoods
      • West Side Story
    • The Rise of Rock & Roll in The Fifties
      • Rock and Roll is Here to Stay
      • Transition from Pop to Rock & Roll
      • Rock & Roll Stars and Personalities
      • Criticism of “The Devil’s Music” (Rock & Roll)
      • Doo Wops/Street Corner Harmony
      • White Cover Records
      • American Bandstand
    • Criticism of the Fifties’ Culture
      • Revolutionary Road
      • The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
      • The Lonely Crowd
      • The Organization Man
      • The Feminine Mystique
      • The Catcher in the Rye
      • Ayn Rand – “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead”
    • 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
    • Cultural Rebellion Introduction
    • The Flower Children/Hippies/LSD
    • Haight Ashbury
    • Communes
  • Woman’s Rights/The Feminist Movement
    • Women’s Liberation
    • The Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.)
    • The Sexual Revolution
    • Abortion and the Right to Choose
  • LGBT Civil Rights
    • Stonewall Inn Riots
    • HIV/AIDS – not just a “gay plague”
    • The AIDS Memorial Quilt
  • Post Vietnam
    • Watergate and Nixon’s Resignation
    • Nixon’s Resignation
    • The Watergate Legacy
    • America and the Middle East
      • The Arab Oil Embargo
      • The Camp David Accords
      • The Iranian Revolution
      • The Persian Gulf War
    • Reagan’s Central American Foreign Policy
    • Eastern Europeans against the Soviet Union
    • The Collapse of the Soviet Union
    • The Balkan Wars of the 1990s
    • Al Qaeda
  • 1980s – The Reagan Years
    • General Characteristics of the 1980s – The Reagan Years
    • Ronald Reagan and National Politics
      • The Presidential election of 1980
      • Reagan gets Four More Years
      • “Reaganomics”, “Supply Side Economics”
      • Economic Crises of the Reagan Years
      • The New Right
    • Social Problems during the 1980s
      • The War on Drugs
      • Economic Inequality and Homelessness
      • Race Relations during the Reagan Years
    • Technology in the 1980s
    • Summary of the Reagan Years
    • 1988 Presidential Election
    • Sources for “The Eighties-The Reagan Years”
    • Song Index for “The Eighties-The Reagan Years”
  • Conclusion
  • Index of Songs
  • Bibliography
  • Sources
  • Discography
  • Copyright Disclaimer
Menu
  • Post Vietnam
    • Watergate and Nixon’s Resignation
    • Nixon’s Resignation
    • The Watergate Legacy
    • America and the Middle East
      • The Arab Oil Embargo
      • The Camp David Accords
      • The Iranian Revolution
      • The Persian Gulf War
    • Reagan’s Central American Foreign Policy
    • Eastern Europeans against the Soviet Union
    • The Collapse of the Soviet Union
    • The Balkan Wars of the 1990s
    • Al Qaeda
  • 1980s – The Reagan Years
    • General Characteristics of the 1980s – The Reagan Years
    • Ronald Reagan and National Politics
      • The Presidential election of 1980
      • Reagan gets Four More Years
      • “Reaganomics”, “Supply Side Economics”
      • Economic Crises of the Reagan Years
      • The New Right
    • Social Problems during the 1980s
      • The War on Drugs
      • Economic Inequality and Homelessness
      • Race Relations during the Reagan Years
    • Technology in the 1980s
    • Summary of the Reagan Years
    • 1988 Presidential Election
    • Sources for “The Eighties-The Reagan Years”
    • Song Index for “The Eighties-The Reagan Years”
  • Conclusion
  • Index of Songs
  • Bibliography
  • Sources
  • Discography
  • Copyright Disclaimer

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