Provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues.

Contains over two thousand primary sources on twentieth-century American history and culture, featuring seventy-five different types of sources, arranged chrono

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A look at American civilization by decade covers history, politics, law, economics, culture, sports, social trends, and important people.

This ten-volume encyclopedia explores the social history of 20th-century America in rich, authoritative detail, decade by decade, through the eyes of its everyd