..., as well as the pioneering longitudinal Berkeley Guidance Study, launched during the late 1920s at UC Berkeley. Hoover Herbert immigration Lippmann Walter Lynd Helen Lynd Robert S migration modernity urban growth World War I Berkeley Guidance Study Civil War GI Bill Gordon Robert Great...

...This chapter views the Berkeley families adapting to life in an era of prosperity after a decade of doing without. What happened to them had much to do with war mobilization within the San Francisco Bay region and California. The families faced community change and adaptation in the presence...

...This chapter contextualizes the work experiences of the 1900 generation women during World War II within their broader life course. Unique longitudinal quantitative and qualitative data reveal that, for this generation of women, work in World War II was a continuation of occupational pathways...

...Bodily engagement was central to the defense enterprise right until the end of the war when complete physical submission and martyrdom became an obligation. The body was engaged through pain and pleasure. So was the imagination. And this started with childhood. Wondrous technology excited...

..., by the end of World War II, applied mathematicians began to celebrate it as well, redefining in the process the meaning of mathematization. Axiomatics thus came to define both the utilitarian and humanistic sides of mathematics. By placing axiomatics at the center of mathematical activity at midcentury...

... War on Poverty. This chapter focuses on the intellectual setting in which Friedman envisioned his radically new way of thinking about poverty and needs. Tracing back the origin of the proposal in the context of the New Deal and its fiscal revolution, this chapter shows how Friedman hollowed out...

.... In this account, the rising fascination for basic income was part of a wider transformation of the Keynesian paradigm, including the policy categories that had shaped the social and economic thought of the post-war order. Ferry Wilbur Gitlin Todd Hayden Tom Kemp Arthur Manifesto for a Triple Revolution New...

... into King William’s War. After joint French and Indian forces massacred populations of frontier towns in New York and New England, the English colonies decided to uproot the French colonies. In May 1690, a Massachusetts expedition forced Acadia to surrender. In August, a larger fleet from Massachusetts...

...The introduction examines how literature of its particular moment in time also addresses unresolved pasts and futures that it helps to shape. As time and space were reconfigured by experiences, such as shell shock in the traumatic conditions of modern war, experimental forms, such as those devised...

... China Taiwan Turner Frederick Jackson westward expansion Wilson Woodrow Bostdorff Denise M communism appeal of in South America Foreign Affairs magazine Nixon’s article in Korean War rapprochement Cold War Haig Alexander Jr Kissinger Henry racism Ceaușescu Nicolae Chou En lai Khan Yahya...

...This chapter examines how Ronald Reagan used his June 1984 visit to Normandy and the ceremonial act of commemoration to paint a vivid, emotional argument for US global leadership on the Cold War world stage. It first details how Normandy became a powerful symbol of American moral commitment after D...

...The final chapter of Spiritual Moderns focuses on late twentieth-century American artists whose analysis of religious subjects and practices were at the center of multiple Culture War controversies during the 1980s and 1990s. Artwork by Robert Gober, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, and Renee Cox...

... conflict and rivalry Selim II Sultan Edirne Ottoman Safavid wars Süleyman the Magnificent Sultan Aq Qoyunlu Bahaʿi Shaikh blasphemy infidels Isfahan as capital Lutf Allah Shaikh madrasas Masjid i Shah religion Shaikh Lutf Allah Mosque Isfahan theologians Maydan i Naqsh i Jahan Isfahan De...

... crises of North Vietnam “Christmas bombings ” Vietnam War abortion Aquarian Age Catholics Catholicism Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Mormonism civil rights movement gay community Herberg Will immigration restrictions lifting of Jesus People Jesus freaks Jesus kids or Jesus...

...In 1983, two years into his first term as president, Ronald Reagan had not ended the recession or made good on his promise to stop abortion and return prayer to public schools. He also faced a growing nuclear freeze movement that was unmoved by the Cold War between the US and the USSR. Reagan’s...

...—the imaging of auspiciousness in the afterlife. This chapter argues that the tomb occupant conceived of auspiciousness as being predicated on notions of military success that are articulated in early military treatises, such as Sunzi’s Art of War. As these texts explain, success on the battlefield depends...

... of World War II. Japan occupied the Philippines and Guam during the war, and in all places it sought to undo “Americanization,” directly dismantling the symbolic systems the United States had established in the early twentieth century. The Rising Sun flag replaced the Stars and Stripes. Japanese officials...

... student loans subprime bubble theft widows Widows film wives women Yearwood Lori Teresa activists Age of Capital bankruptcy Black Americans capital civil rights Civil War courts creditors criminal justice debt forgiveness dignity discrimination emancipation family feminists Florida...

...This chapter covers Poinsett’s service as one of the first diplomatic agents to South America in the 1810s during the continent’s independence wars. Poinsett facilitated arms deals between U.S. citizens and South American revolutionaries, assumed unauthorized command of a division of the Chilean...

...Poinsett’s service to the Jacksonian wing of the Democratic Party during the nullification crisis helped secure him the post of secretary of war under President Martin Van Buren, a post that combined his lifelong interests in scientific endeavors and militarism with economic advancement...