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Timelines

day by day and trend by trend from the dawn of the Atomic Age to the Gulf War
1991
Chronicles the events, fads, phrases, and names-in-the-news that defined each year since 1945.

Culturgrams

the nations around us
1998
Presents information on the geography, history, culture, economy, and social conditions of countries in Europe and the Americas.

The fog of war

2004
Director Errol Morris interviews Robert S. McNamara, one of the most controversial and influential political figures of the 20th century. The former Secretary of Defense (under JFK and LBJ) offers his insights into the 1945 bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the effects of the Vietnam War.

The limits of power

the United States in Vietnam
2005

Reluctant colossus

America enters the age of imperialism
2004

Growing up in the 1950s

1983
Describes the family life, education, urban development, recreation, and emergence of teenagers in Great Britain during the prosperous 1950's.

Cold War culture

media and the arts, 1945-1990
2000
A comprehensive A-to-Z reference that describes the various people, works of art and literature, movements and influences in American culture that significantly reflected or responded to the Cold War.

Canada since 1945

power, politics, and provincialism
1981

The pursuit of loneliness

American culture at the breaking point
1970

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