Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History provides detailed coverage of all the remarkable developments within the United States during this period, as well as their dramatic impact on the rest of the world.

Table of Contents

• A-Z Entries
• A
• Abortion
• Abscam
• Adams (Sherman) Scandal
• Advertising
• Affirmative Action
• Afghanistan War
• Agency for International Development
• Agricultural Workers
• Agriculture
• AIDS/HIV Crisis
• Air Pollution
• Air Traffic Controllers' Strike
• Alaskan Pipeline
• Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education (1969)
• Alliances, Foreign
• Altamont Killings
• American Independent Party
• American Nazi Party
• AmeriCorps
• Anticommunism
• Anti-Nuclear Power Movement
• Antiwar Movement, Vietnam Era
• Apollo Program
• Architecture
• Arms Race
• Army-McCarthy Hearings
• Arts, Fine
• Arts Funding, Government
• Asian American Groups
• Atomic Weapons Testing
• Atoms for Peace
• Attica Prison Riot
• Automobile Culture
• Automobile Industry
• B
• Baby Bells
• Baby Boom
• Baker (Bobby) Affair
• Bakke Decision (1978)
• Ban the Bomb Movement
• Banking and Credit
• Baruch Plan
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bay of Pigs
• Beauty, Fashion, and Cosmetics
• Beirut Bombings
• Berlin Airlift
• Berlin Wall
• Bicentennial Celebrations
• Billygate
• Birmingham Church Bombing
• Birth Control
• Bitburg, Reagan Visit to
• Black Muslims
• Black Panthers
• Black Power Movement
• Blackouts, Electrical
• Blue-Collar Workers
• Boland Amendments
• Bork Nomination
• Bosnia Intervention
• Boston Strangler Murders
• Boxing
• Bracero Program
• Brady Bill
• Brawley (Tawana) Affair
• Bricker Amendment
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Busing
• C
• Camp David Accords
• Campaign Finance
• Canada, Relations with
• Capital Punishment
• Caribbean, Relations with (Except Cuba)
• Carter Doctrine
• Catonsville Nine
• Censorship
• Central America, Relations with
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Central Park Jogger
• Central Treaty Organization
• Chappaquiddick Affair
• Checkers Speech
• Chessman (Caryl) Affair
• Child Rearing
• China and Taiwan, Relations with
• Christian Coalition
• Christian Right
• Church Committee Hearings
• Citadel Affair
• Civil Liberties
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Legislation and Policy
• Civil Rights Movement, Through 1965
• Civil Rights Movement and Black Power, After 1965
• Classical Music
• Club of Rome Report
• College Sports
• Columbia University Protest
• Comic Books
• Comic Strips
• Committee to Re-elect the President
• Common Cause
• Communications Technologies
• Community Action Program
• Community Reinvestment Act
• Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
• Computers
• Congress
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Congressional Black Caucus
• Consciousness Raising
• Conservatism
• Conspiracy Theories
• Constitutional Amendments
• Consumer Culture
• Consumer Movement
• Containment
• Corporate Consolidation
• Counterculture
• Country and Western Music
• Courts
• Crack (Cocaine) Epidemic
• Credibility Gap
• Crime, Juvenile
• Crime, Organized
• Crime, Property
• Crime, Sexual
• Crime, Violent
• Criminal Law and Punishment
• Cuba, Relations with
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cults
• D
• Dalkon Shield Controversy
• Dance
• Dance, Popular
• Day Care
• Death and Dying
• Defense Spending and Defense Industry
• Delaney Clause
• Democratic Party
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Diet and Food
• Disabled Americans
• Disco
• Displaced Persons Act
• Dixiecrats
• Dominican Republic Invasion
• Domino Theory
• Donora (Pennsylvania) Smog Episode
• Downsizing, Corporate
• Draft, Military
• Drug Culture
• Drug and alcohol Rehabilitation Programs
• E
• Eagleton (Thomas) Affair
• Earth Day
• Eastern Europe, Relations with
• Economic Policy
• Education, Department of
• Education, Elementary and Secondary
• Education, Government Policy and
• Education, Higher
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Election of 1946
• Election of 1948
• Election of 1952
• Election of 1956
• Election of 1960
• Election of 1964
• Election of 1968
• Election of 1972
• Election of 1976
• Election of 1980
• Election of 1984
• Election of 1988
• Election of 1992
• Election of 1994
• Election of 1996
• Election of 2000
• Election of 2004
• Election of 2006
• Election of 2008
• Election of 2010
• Electronics Industry
• Emily's List
• Employment Act of 1946
• Encounter Groups
• Endangered Species Act
• Enemies List
• Energy
• Energy, Department of
• Engel V. Vitale (1962)
• Enron Bankruptcy
• Enterprise Zones
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Environmentalism
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Equal Pay Act
• Ethnic Studies Programs
• Evangelical Christianity
• Extreme Sports
• Exxon Valdez Disaster
• F
• Fads
• Fair Deal
• Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
• Fairness Doctrine
• Family
• Family Assistance Plan
• Family Leave Act
• Family Support Act
• Family Values
• Federal Election Campaign Act
• Feminist Movement
• Filibuster
• Film, Documentary
• Film, Feature
• Film, Independent
• Folk Music
• Food for Peace Program
• Football
• Foreign Aid
• Formosa Resolution
• Freedom of Information Act
• Freedom Riders
• Freedom Schools
• Fulbright Act
• Furman v. Georgia (1972)
• G
• Gambling
• Gay and Lesbian Politics and Culture
• Gemini, Project
• Generation X
• Genetics
• G.I. Bill
• Gideon V. Wainwright (1963)
• Global Warming
• Globalization
• Goetz (Bernhard) Incident
• Golf
• González (Elián) Affair
• Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
• Gray Panthers
• Green Berets
• Greensboro Massacre
• Grenada Invasion
• Griswold V. Connecticut (1965)
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Gulf War
• Gun Control
• H
• Haiti Incursion
• Happenings
• Hare Krishnas
• Hart (Gary) Affair
• Head Start Program
• Health and Fitness
• Health and Human Services, Department of
• Health Care
• Hearst (Patty) Kidnapping
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
• Hells Angels
• Helsinki Accords
• Hijackings
• Hiss (Alger) Case
• Hobbies
• Hollywood Ten
• Homeland Security, Department of
• Hoover Commission
• Horton (Willie) Ads
• Hotline, U.S.-Soviet
• House Committee on Un-American Activities
• Housing
• Howard Beach Murder
• Hughes (Howard) Hoax
• I
• Ice Hockey
• Immigration
• Impeachment of President Clinton
• Inner Cities
• Insider Trading Scandals
• International Geophysical Year
• International Institutions
• Internet
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Iraq War
• Islam
• Israel, Relations with
• ITT Affair
• J
• Jackson State Killings
• Japan, Relations with
• Jazz
• Jet Set
• Jewish Defense League
• Job Corps
• John Birch Society
• Jonestown Massacre
• Judaism
• Junk Bonds
• “Just Say No” Campaign
• K
• Kennan's Long Telegram
• Kennedy (John F.) Assassination
• Kent State Shootings
• Kerner Report
• Keynesian Economics
• Kinsey Reports
• Kitchen Debate
• Korea (North and South), Relations with
• Korean Airlines Flight 007
• Korean War
• Kosovo Intervention
• L
• Lance (Bert) Affair
• Landrum-Griffin Act
• Latino and Caribbean Peoples (Except Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans)
• Legionnaires' Disease
• Liberalism
• Literature, Fiction
• Literature, Nonfiction
• Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis
• Love Canal
• Love-Ins
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• M
• Magnet Schools
• Manson Murders
• March on Washington
• Mariel Boatlift
• Marshall Plan
• Mass Transit
• Masters and Johnson Studies
• Mayaguez Incident
• McCarran Act
• McCarran-Walter Immigration Act
• McClellan Committee
• Media and Politics
• Medicare and Medicaid
• Medicine
• Mental Health
• Mercury, Project
• Mexican Americans
• Mexico, Relations with
• Middle East, Relations with (Except Israel)
• Military Assistance Advisory Groups, U.S.
• Military-Industrial Complex
• Miller v. California (1973)
• Million Man March
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Misery Index
• Missile Gap
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• Mississippi Summer Project
• Model Cities Program
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Moon Landing
• Moonies (Unificationists)
• Move!
• Moynihan Report
• Multiculturalism
• Mumia Abu-Jamal Case
• Music Videos
• Mutual Assured Destruction
• MX Missiles
• My Lai Massacre
• N
• Nannygate
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
• National Defense Education Act
• National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
• National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
• National Organization for Women
• National Security Act of 1947
• National Security Policy and Agencies
• National Women's Conference
• Native Americans
• Natural Disasters and Disaster Management
• Nautilus
• Neutron Bomb
• New Age and Eastern Religions
• New Federalism
• New Frontier
• New Left
• New York City Financial Bailout
• Newspapers and Magazines
• Nixon Doctrine
• North American Free Trade Agreement
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Nuclear Energy
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Nuremberg Trials
• O
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Office of Economic Opportunity
• Office of Management and Budget
• Offshore Oil Drilling
• Oklahoma City Bombing
• Olympics
• Open Skies Program
• Operation Bootstrap
• Oppenheimer (J. Robert) Affair
• Organization of American States
• Ozone Depletion
• P
• Panama Canal Treaties
• Panama Invasion
• Payola Scandal
• Peace and Freedom Party
• Peace Corps
• Pensions, Private
• Pentagon Papers
• People United to Save Humanity
• Photography
• Pike Committee
• Planetary Exploration
• Plastics
• Poetry
• Political Correctness
• Poor People's Campaign
• Pornography
• Port Huron Statement
• Postal Reorganization Act
• Poverty
• Presidency
• Progressive Party, 1948
• Promise Keepers
• Propaganda, U.S.
• Proposition 13
• Psychiatry
• Pueblo Incident
• Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans
• Q
• Quemoy and Matsu Incident
• R
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
• Radio
• Rainbow Coalition
• Rap and Hip-Hop
• Rat Pack
• Reaganomics
• Redlining
• Regulation and Deregulation
• Reproductive Technologies
• Republican Party
• Rhythm and Blues
• Right to Die Movement
• Rio Pact
• Riots, Race
• Robotics
• Rock and Roll
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Roman Catholicism
• Rosenberg Case
• Ruby Ridge Shooting
• Rural America
• Rust Belt
• S
• Satellites
• Saturday Night Massacre
• Scarsdale Diet Murder
• School Shootings
• Science, Government Policy and
• Self-Awareness Movements
• Selma March
• Seniors
• September 11 Attacks
• Service Industries
• Service-Sector Workers
• Sexual Revolution
• Silkwood Case
• Simpson (O.J.) Trial
• Sit-Ins, Civil Rights
• Skylab
• Social Security
• Somalia Intervention
• Son of Sam Murders
• South America, Relations with
• South Asia, Relations with
• Southeast Asia, Relations with
• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Southern Manifesto
• Southern Strategy
• Soviet Union/Russia, Relations with
• Space Shuttle
• Spies and Spying
• Sports, Participatory
• Sports Broadcasting
• St. Lawrence Seaway
• Stagflation
• Stark Incident
• States' Rights
• Steel Industry
• Stock Market Crash of 1987
• Stonewall Riots
• Strategic Air Command
• Strategic Arms Treaties
• Strategic Defense Initiative
• Streaking
• Strikes
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• Students for a Democratic Society
• Sub-Saharan Africa, Relations with
• Suburbia
• Suez Crisis
• Sun Belt
• Supply-Side Economics
• Surfing
• Swine Flu
• Symbionese Liberation Army
• Synanon
• T
• Taft-Hartley Act
• Tailhook Scandal
• Tea Party Movement
• Teach-Ins
• Teenagers
• Television
• Tennis
• Terrorism, Domestic
• Terrorism, Foreign
• Test-Tube Babies
• Tet Offensive
• Thalidomide
• Theater
• Theme Parks
• Third Parties
• Thomas (Clarence) Hearings
• Three Mile Island Disaster
• Thresher Disaster
• Till (Emmett) Lynching
• Tobacco and Tobacco Industry
• Tort Law
• Toxic Shock Syndrome
• Tranquilizers
• Transcendental Meditation
• Transportation
• Travelgate
• Truman Doctrine
• Truth-in-Lending Act
• Tylenol Tampering Incident
• U
• U-2 Incident
• Unabomber Affair
• Unemployment
• Unidentified Flying Objects
• Unions
• United Nations, Relations with
• Urban Renewal
• V
• Vesco (Robert) Affair
• Vietnam War
• Vincennes Incident
• Violence, Political
• Voice of America
• Volunteers in Service to America
• Voting Issues
• Voting Rights Act
• W
• Waco Incident
• Wall Street
• War on Poverty
• War Powers Act
• Warren Commission
• Water Pollution and Water Pollution Policy
• Watergate
• Weapons, Nuclear
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Weathermen
• Welfare and Public Assistance
• Western Europe, Relations with
• White Citizens' Councils
• White Ethnics
• White Supremacist Groups
• White-Collar Workers
• Whitewater Scandal
• Wildlife and Wilderness
• Women and Work
• Women's Studies
• Woodstock Music Festival
• World's Fairs
• Wounded Knee
• X
• X Article
• Y
• Yippies
• Young Americans for Freedom
• Z
• Zero Population Growth
• Cultural Landmarks
• The Forties and Fifties
• The Sixties
• The Seventies
• The Eighties
• The Nineties
• The 2000s
• Glossary
• Master Bibliography