Fears of My YouthThe Great Depression

1)FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with mules, near Morganza, Louisiana, Lee, Russell, Photographer, 1938, November. LC-USF33-011904-M3 2) Negro farmer, Greene County, Alabama, Delano, Jack, Photographer, 1941, May. LC-USF33-020946-M4 3) Mexican boy with goat, Crystal City, Texas, Lee, Russell, Photographer, 1939, March. LC-USF33-012103-M1 4) Nipomo, Calif. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, Lange, Dorothea, Photographer, 1936, March. LC-USF34-9093-C 5) Painting the American insignia on airplane wings, Hollem, Howard R., photographer, 1942 August. LC-USW361-387 6) Bean fields, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J., Collier, John, photographer, 1942 June. LC-USF35-555 (Images Courtesy Library of Congress)

Fears of My YouthThe Dust Bowl

Fears of My YouthThe Second World War

1) Tom Kobayashi, Landscape, Manzanar Relocation Center, CaliforniaLC-DIG-ppprs-00245 DLC 2) Entrance to Manzanar, Manzanar Relocation CenterLC-DIG-ppprs-00286 DLC

The 1945 TRINITY nuclear explosion.   "I am become Death, the Destroyer of worlds.": One of the only color photographs of the "Trinity" explosion.

On June 25, 1950 North Korean forces moved south in force. Using Soviet equipment and with huge reserves of manpower, their surprise attack was a crushing success.

America from 1948 to about 1956, a time which became popularly known as the Second Red Scare. The term McCarthyism was coined to specifically describe the intense anti-Communist movement that existed in America from 1948 to about 1956

Joseph McCarthy

Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957.

Now and the Future

Multinational Corporations

Aging Populations

Changing Structure of Societies Global Economy

Petroleum Peak

Global Warming