The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politic
Martin Luther King, Jr. leads civil rights protestors during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of major social and political changes in the United States.
Gen. MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon from the USS Mt. McKinley, 15 September 1950.
A 1947 booklet published by the Catholic Catechetical Guild Educational Society raising the specter of a Communist takeover
Eisenhower and Gamal Abdel Nasser in New York, 1960
The history of the United States from 1964 to 1980 includes the climax and end of the Civil Rights Movement; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War; the drama of a generational revolt with its s
History of the United States (1945–1964)
…presidential election over conservative champion Senator Barry Goldwater. Johnson's big victory brought an overwhelming liberal majority in Congress. History of the United States (1964–1980) Post–World War II boom…
Buzz Aldrin in 1969 as part of NASA's Apollo 11 spaceflight that was the first to land humans on the Moon
Vietnamese civilians deliberately killed by the U.S. Army in the My Lai massacre
Gloria Steinem at a meeting of the Women's Action Alliance, 1972
Line at a gas station, June 15, 1979