Beginning with an analysis of cultural themes and ending with a discussion of evolving and expanding political and corporate institutions, The Columbia History of Post-World...
Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry to expose Hollywood's...
This collection will introduce students and educators to a diverse range of genres, including journals, letters, speeches, government legislation, and court opinions. Documents represent the...
The present paper attempts to synthesize the United States policymakers' decisions on the course of the second half of the 1940s. Personal judgments and bureaucratic...
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
Set in 1947 Los Angeles, the game follows detective Cole Phelps's rise among the ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department as he solves a range of cases across various bureaus.
The U.S. offered economic aid to war-ravaged Europe through the European Recovery Program, aimed at preventing economic collapse and reducing the appeal of communism.
McCarthyism, referred to as the second Red Scare, encompassed the suppression of leftist individuals and a drive to instill apprehension about purported communist and Soviet impacts on American institutions, along with concerns of Soviet espionage within the United States from the late 1940s to the 1950s.
In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, the decades-long conflict between the USA and the USSR. The Cold War was called cold because of the lack of actual fighting, but this is inaccurate.
Learn how the Truman Doctrine marked the beginning of the Cold War, how it shaped America's attitude towards communism and how it shifted its foreign policy on interventionism with its involvement in the Mediterranean after World War II.