header by Emerson Taymor, 2005
1. The Colonial Era: 1607-1763
2. The Revolutionary Era:
1763-1789
3. The Early National Period:
1789-1824
4. Jacksonian America: 1824-1848
5. Antebellum America: 1848-1860
6. The Civil War Era: 1861-1877
7. The Gilded Age: 1877-1901
8. Progressivism: 1901-1920
9. The Twenties
10. Depression and New Deal: 1929-1939
11. World War II: 1939-1945
12. Early Cold War: 1945-1963
13. Social Ferment: 1945-1960
14. The Sixties
15. The Seventies and After
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Social Ferment, 1945-1960
Council Against Intolerance in America, map of American diversity (1940);
Daniel Schorr, Reconverting Mexican Americans (1946); "So Much for So Little," US government-sponsored short from 1949 explaining why government-sponsored health care is a good thing
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette visits
a negro school, 1947; Septima Clark recalls teaching in segregated schools; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette visits
sharecroppers, 1947; examples of The "Green Book," which described places for African-American
travelers to stay during segregation; NPR covers the
story
race and the GI bill
Report of the President's Commission on Civil Rights (1947)
Harry Truman, address to NAACP, 1947; Southern response to Truman
Party platforms, 1948
sample Mississippi ballot, 1948
Brown v. Board of Ed. decision (1954); Brown
II, 1955; Southern declaration
on integration (1956); a letter to the New Orleans Times-Picayune complaining that only African-American children enjoy school choice, 1957; Jet magazine on progress in education, 1955; Asher Price, "A Secret 1950s Strategy to Keep Out Black Students," Atlantic (2019)--how U. Texas used standardized testing to slow integration
Law professors
on what Brown means, or
should mean, or might have meant; The Atlantic covers the decision; the ironic consequences of Brown for Central High School's
football team; desegregation in six school districts, 1968-2010; Gary Kamiya on how white East Bay residents fought against integration in the 40s and 50s, Chronicle (Nov. 2018)
selections from the Oakland Tribune, Mar. 23, 1956
famous court cases, some with digitized recordings of the actual case
consumer spending patterns, 1930s-onward; midcentury photos of San Francisco; Life magazine describes the teenage market (1959); images of 50s pop cultureGene Slater, "The Inventors of America's Most Dangerous Idea," The Atlantic (Nov. 2021): how realtors turned "freedom" into a defense of segregation; Bill Owens's Sururbia, a famous photo series set in Livermore: is it mocking? celebratory? both? One of the more resonant images of assimilation, whose politics are still debatedwomen and gender roles in the 50s; "129 Ways to Get a Husband," McCall's (1958)
"The Story of a Plain Woman Who Is Considered a Beauty," Vogue (1958)
on postwar residential segregation and the roots of what happened in Ferguson (2016)
postwar urban planning and the decline of mass transit (CityLab)
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