Links and Other References


Links:

The Beat Begins: Course Website
What was so great about the 1950's?
United States Culture and Society in the 1950's
The American 1950's
The History Channel
The Fifties
International Baby Boomers Website

Other References:

Altbach, Edith Hoskins.  Women in America.  Lexington, Massachusetts:  D.C. Heath and Company, 1974.

Anderson, Karen.  Wartime Women.  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 1981.

Cott, Nancy F. (Ed). History of Women in the United States.  15.  USA:  K.G. Saur, 1993.

Diedrich, Maria and Dorothea Fischer-Hornring (Eds.)  Women and War: The Changing Status of American Women from the 1930s to the 1950s. New York: Berg Publishers, Inc., 1990.

Halberstam, David.  The Fifties.  New York:  Fawcett Columbine, 1993.

Matthews, Glenna.  Just a Housewife.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1987.

Moynihan, Ruth Barnes, Cynthia Russett and Laurie Crumpacker (Eds). Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women Volume II: From 1865 to the Present.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1993

Skold, Karen Beck.  "The Job He Left Behind:  American Women in the Shipyards During World War II."  Women,War and Revolution.  Ed. Carol R. Berkin and Clara M. Lovett.  New York:  Holmes and Meier Publishing, Inc., 1980.

Weatherford, Doris.  A Chronology of American Women's History.  New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1997.
 


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