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CHAPTER 27
AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY, 1945–1961
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Postwar Jitters
• Demobilization and Reconversion• The GI Bill of Rights• The Economic Boom Begins
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The Affluent Society
• The New Industrial Society• The Age of Computers• The Costs of Bigness• Blue-Collar Blues
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Prosperity and the Suburbs
• Suburban America• Consensus and Conservatism• Togetherness, the Baby Boom, and Domesticity• Religion and Education• Postwar Culture• The Television Culture
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The Growth of the Sunbelt, 1950–2000
Source: D.W. Meinig, The Shaping of America, Vol. 4
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 232
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Seeds of Disquiet
• Sputnik• A Different Beat• Portents of Change
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The Other America
• Poverty and Urban Blight • Blacks’ Struggle for Justice• Latinos and Latinas • Native Americans