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America in the 1950s
Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1950 to 1959.
America in the 1960s
Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1960 to 1969.
Presidential Diversions
Paul F. Boller, Jr.'s widely admired and bestselling anecdotal histories have uncovered new aspects and hidden dimensions in the lives of our presidents. Now he turns to an uncharted--but unexpectedly revealing--element of our leaders' personalities as he brings us stories of what the presidents did for fun.In thumbnail portraits of every president through George W. Bush, Boller chronicles their taste in games, sports, and cultural activities. George Washington had a passion for dancing and John Quincy Adams skinny-dipped in the Potomac; Grover Cleveland loved beer gardens and Woodrow Wilson made a failed effort to write fiction; Calvin Coolidge cherished his afternoon naps, as did Lyndon Johnson his four-pack-a-day cigarette habit; Jimmy Carter was a surprisingly skilled high diver and Bush Senior loved to parachute. The sketches revitalize even the most familiar of our leaders, showing us a new side of our presidents--and their presidencies.
America in the 1930s
Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1930 to 1939.
Pelorus Jack, Dolphin Pilot
This is the story of a dolphin in New Zealand who often swam at the side of ships.
America in the 1940s
Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1940 to 1949.
America in the 1920s
Presents the social, political, economic, and technological changes in the United States during the nineteen twenties.
Richard M. Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan
Chronicles the lives of presidents Nixon, Carter, and Reagan and points out daring measures each took while in office.
The Pacific Rim
Examines the history and current economic and political importance of Japan, China, Taiwan, the Koreas, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Of Little Comfort
During and especially after World War I, the millions of black-clad widows on the streets of Europe's cities were a constant reminder that war caused carnage on a vast scale. But widows were far more than just a reminder of the war's fallen soldiers; they were literal and figurative actresses in how nations crafted their identities in the interwar era. In this extremely original study, Erika Kuhlman compares the ways in which German and American widows experienced their post-war status, and how that played into the cultures of mourning in their two nations: one defeated, the other victorious. Each nation used widows and war dead as symbols to either uphold their victory or disengage from their defeat, but Kuhlman, parsing both German and U.S. primary sources, compares widows' lived experiences to public memory. For some widows, government compensation in the form of military-style awards sufficed. For others, their own deprivations, combined with those suffered by widows living in other nations, became the touchstone of a transnational awareness of the absurdity of war and the need to prevent it.
