Fights over how American history is taught. Labels of “communist” and “socialist” used to smear. Civil rights gains seen as a ...

Yet, understanding the international world order as a creation of the post-World War II period, obscures that its roots lie earlier. Before and during World War II, President Franklin D.

Previous periods of post-war prosperity, notably the period after World War I, had not led to such dramatic increases in marriage and childbearing. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Americans in ...