There are remarkable advances in medicine in the postwar years, medical breakthroughs with development of antibiotics like penicillin and vaccines to suppress influenza and polio. The federal government funnels enormous amounts of money into scienti...
Economic growth outpaces population growth by almost ten to one in the years after World War II. The West, in particular, becomes more populous, industrial, rich, and powerful. It is not just the climate that attracts people, it is the jobs created ...
Roosevelt submits an extraordinary number of bills to Congress in the first 100 days of his administration, diverse experiments designed to combat the Depression. FDR's optimism is contagious; he never doubts something will work. He conveys this bel...
In the 1930s, Roosevelt's principal critics accuse him of abandoning the Constitution and establishing a tyrannical state. Today historians point to problems the New Deal did not resolve and groups it did not represent. In analyzing the three Rs of ...
Farmers had expanded production rapidly during World War I. Now that the war is over, competition from recovered foreign producers lowers potential returns while costs remain fixed. The decade of the 1920s is difficult for farmers.