U.S. History

Search in U.S. History articles.

Hand-drawn vinyl-record street connecting religious gatherings, Black musicians and a recording studio, Beat poetry, a playwright, jazz, and readers discussing postwar culture.

Religious Revival, Rock and Roll, the Beats and Cultural Dissent

Study religious revival, rock and roll, the Beats and postwar dissent. Compare civic religion, cultural sources, Motown and markets with CLEP practice.

Hand-drawn cutaway television cabinet showing a family audience, studio cameras, commercial sponsors, film editors, a broadcast license, and an artist reworking consumer imagery.

Television, Advertising, Consumerism and Mass Culture

Study television, advertising and mass culture for CLEP. Compare visual storytelling, broadcast duties, the Comics Code and quiz-show law.

Hand-drawn conveyor belt becoming a labor bargaining table, with industrial workers, mechanized farming, dockworkers, and expanding health, education, postal, and office jobs.

Postwar Growth, Organized Labor, Automation and the Service Economy

Hand-drawn open suitcase connecting farms and older industrial cities to Sunbelt skylines, highways, air travel, jobs, moving families, and retirees.

The Sunbelt, Internal Migration and Demographic Change

Hand-drawn clock-shaped house contrasting the suburban family ideal with paid jobs, caregiving, housework, shared family tasks, and the baby-boom generation aging.

The Baby Boom, Family Ideals and Women’s Paid Work

Hand-drawn house key over a metropolitan map showing suburban mortgages, racially unequal lending access, highway displacement, and urban community life.

Suburbs, Highways, Redlining and White Flight

Hand-drawn veterans with a duffel bag unfolding into college, vocational training, and homeownership scenes, showing GI Bill opportunities and unequal institutional access.

The GI Bill, Higher Education and Postwar Mobility

Hand-drawn hourglass above Kennedy and advisers, reconnaissance photographs and a naval quarantine around Cuba, with Bay of Pigs and Berlin Wall scenes illustrating Cold War crisis decisions.

The Bay of Pigs, Berlin and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Hand-drawn journal bridge linking Kennedy’s New Frontier with Peace Corps teaching, student exchange, agricultural cooperation, and jazz diplomacy.

Kennedy’s New Frontier and Cold War Development Policy

Hand-drawn policy workbench showing collective bargaining under congressional restrictions, partial Fair Deal legislation, judicial limits, and Truman’s 1948 whistle-stop campaign.

Taft-Hartley, the Fair Deal and the Election of 1948

Hand-drawn hearing microphones, an accusing shadow, a magnifying glass over evidence, and affected employees illustrate McCarthyism and civil-liberties safeguards.

Loyalty Programs, HUAC, McCarthyism and Civil Liberties

Hand-drawn Eisenhower weighing military deterrence against civilian science and education, with Suez Canal diplomacy, Sputnik, students, and the space race.

Eisenhower’s New Look, Suez and the Space Race