The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988.
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The Proud Decades is the third volume in a series, The Norton Twentieth Century America Series, published by W. W. Norton & Company:
- Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920.
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My post on Pivotal Decades is here. - Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941.
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My post on Anxious Decades is here. - Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960.
- Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974.
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My post on Years of Discord is here.
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Author Information:
- John Patrick Diggins (1935–2009), Wikipedia.
- John Patrick Diggins, C-SPAN.
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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN
You can find a large number of lectures addressing the period 1941-1960 in C-SPAN's Lectures in History series. The decades of the 1940s and 1950s contain many notable events that result in abundant material for historians' lectures. For example: World War II (more than 20 lectures related to WWII); the Cold War (at least 8 lectures); Korean War (only 3 lectures); post-WWII economic growth; emergence of the Civil Rights movement (at least 12 lectures); a variety of other social and cultural topics.
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Wikipedia Articles:
- History of the United States (1918–45).
- History of the United States (1945–64).
- Economic history of the United States: From 1929 through World War II.
- Economic history of the United States: Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973.
- Post–World War II economic expansion.
- Largest cities in the United States by population by decade: 1950.