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economic consolidation
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New Deal Order
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The Politics of Anticommunism
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The Stable Fifties
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The Subversive Fifties
Relevant pages: Resource Type: Document-Based Question Dissent and social protest characterize the 1960s. Enduring images of the decade recall its civil-rights marches, antiwar protests, and rallies of members of various social grouips—women, farmworkers, American Indians—calling for greater justice. The documents within the DBQ represent a variety of voices, illustrating the tensions between countercultural movements of the 1960s and conservative reactions against them. This DBQ contextualizes the debates of the 1960s within a longer-term analysis of the divisions between left and right in the United States since the beginning of the Cold War. The New Framework Resource Type: Primary Source Still from In Our Hands, Part 2: What We Have (1950). Abundance Resource Type: Primary Source Poster from the U.S. Housing Authority (1940s). Abundance Resource Type: Primary Source New York City housing project (c. 1950). America Since 1945—E-Seminar 3, The Stable Fifties Resource Type: E-Seminar In The Stable Fifties, the third e-seminar in the series America Since 1945, Professor Alan Brinkley examines the shift in American economics and culture that occurred after World War II. While many other combatant countries faced a slow rebuilding period after the war's end, the United States celebrated a vast and steady economic boom that began during the war and continued for the next twenty years. Professor Brinkley examines aspects of American middle-class culture during the Eisenhower years, including the rise of television and the expansion of the suburbs. He also offers a perspective on the Eisenhower presidency. Environmental Critique: DDT Resource Type: Primary Source Farmer sprays DDT pesticide on trees (1948). Environmental Critique: DDT Resource Type: Primary Source Cover of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962), which exposed data on the harmful effects of DDT and other chemical pesticides. The Affluent Society Resource Type: Primary Source Galbraith's classic study of 1950s America discusses the irony of the existence of significant poverty in affluent America. Homogenized Society and Conformity Resource Type: Document-Based Question This carefully crafted selection of primary sources will allow students to weigh the multiplicity of factors that influenced American culture in the 1950s, such as the Cold War, government policies, legislation, corporations, and television. Students can focus on the extent to which consensus and conformity dominated relations among or within various social groups. The Counterculture Resource Type: Document-Based Question Although the decade of the 1950s deserves its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity, seeds of social discontent nevertheless permeated American society. This carefully crafted DBQ focuses on the intellectual and artisitic critics of the affluent society, as well as the origins of the women's and civil-rights movements. Levitt On Communism and Home Ownership Resource Type: Primary Source As the first community of its kind, Levittown, New York, located 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island, heralded the postwar arrival of suburban America with its mass-produced housing. William Levitt is quoted as saying the following. Convergence Resource Type: Primary Source Renowned for his technique of spontaneous "splatter" or "action" painting, Jackson Pollock (1912–56) emerged as the leading American artist of the abstract expressionist movement. I Am Waiting Resource Type: Primary Source One of the beat poets, Ferlinghetti captures an alternative perspective on life in postwar America in this poem. Levittown, New York Resource Type: Primary Source As the first community of its kind, Levittown, New York, located 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island, heralded the postwar arrival of suburban America with its hundreds of acres of mass-produced housing. The Affluent Soceiety: Public vs. Private Sectors Resource Type: Primary Source John Kenneth Galbraith, a prominent Harvard economist, outlined in this article the necessary balance that should exist between the private and public sectors of the American economy. The Other America Resource Type: Primary Source With this book, writer and social activist Michael Harrington helped launch the New Left movement of the 1960s and its concerns about American poverty and social injustice. The Feminine Mystique Resource Type: Primary Source Founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Betty Friedan wrote this influential treatise critiquing the loneliness and dissatisfaction felt by many suburban housewives in postwar America. Economic Prosperity in the 1950s in the United States Resource Type: Teaching Activity The purpose of this classroom activity on economic prosperity in the 1950s is to analyze the forces that have paradoxically led to a cultural homogeneity, on the one hand, and to a contesting of cultural conformity, on the other. The role of television is closely examined in terms of how it helped to shape public perceptions—sometimes reinforcing a sense of unity, at other times sowing the seeds of discord. Middle-Class America and Its Discontents Resource Type: Classroom Simulation This simulation asks students to place themselves in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse on the eve of the 1960s. Replicating a broad spectrum of American society, from conservatives to counterculture critics, students will understand how the fifties represented an era of consensus that paradoxically carried the seeds of protest that would fuel the rebellion of the sixties. National Politics: Looking to Business Resource Type: Primary Source President-elect Eisenhower, Viscount Bernard L. Montgomery, and Don G. Mitchell, president of Sylvania corporation (1958). | |
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