The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in

Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar Am

The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool for the sharing and withholding of knowledge. In this groundbreaking book, Mario Daniels and

In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence--but these developments came a

Alphabetically arranged entries provide coverage of the diplomatic, economic, political, and cultural events in the United States from the outbreak of the Cold