PART I. SOCIETY AND CULTURE -- Family and demography in postwar America : a hazard of new fortunes? / Stephen Lassonde -- Power of place : race, political economy, and identity in the postwar metropolis / Robert O. Self, Thomas J. Sugrue -- American religion since 1945 / James T. Fisher -- Time out : leisure and tourism / Susan G. Davis -- Mass media : from 1945 to the present / Susan J. Douglas -- What the traffic bares : popular music "back in the USA" / Allen Tullos -- Visual arts in post-1945 America / Erika Doss -- American intellectual history and social thought since 1945 / Patrick N. Allitt -- PART II. PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS -- American political culture since 1945 / Richard H. King -- Hyphen nation : ethnicity in American intellectual and political life / Matthew Frye Jacobson -- Labor during the American century : work, workers, and unions since 1945 / Joshua B. Freeman -- Historiography of the struggle for black equality since 1945 / Kevin Gaines -- Postwar women's history : the "second wave" of the end of family wage? / Nancy MacLean -- Sexuality and the movements for sexual liberation / Beth Bailey -- Movement of movements : the definition and periodization of the New Left / Van Gosse -- Triumph of conservatives in a liberal age / David L. Chappell -- Modern environmentalism / Ian Tyrrell -- PART III. POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY -- Beyond the presidential synthesis : reordering political time / Julian E. Zelizer -- McCarthyism and the Red Scare / Ellen Schrecker -- Politics of "the least dangerous branch" : the court, the constitution, and constitutional politics since 1945 / Mary L. Dudziak -- Cold War in Europe / Carolyn Eisenberg -- Off the beach : the United States, Latin America, and the Cold War / Greg Grandin -- United States and East Asia in the postwar era / James I. Matray -- Washington quagmire : US presidents and the Vietnam Wars : a pattern of intervention / David Hunt -- End of the Cold War / David S. Painter, Thomas S. Blanton -- From the "atomic age" to the "anti-nuclear age" : nuclear energy in politics, diplomacy, and culture / J. Samuel Walker -- PART IV. ESSENTIAL READING -- J. Anthony Lukas : common ground : a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families (1985) / Alan Brinkley -- Charles Payne, I've got the light of freedom (1995) / Linda Gordon -- Samuel Lubell, The future of American politics (1952, 1956, 1965) / Nelson Lichtenstein -- Stephanie Coontz, The way we never were (1992) / Elaine Tyler May -- Alphonso Pinkney, The myth of black progress (1984) / Robert E. Weems, Jr. -- Garry Wills, Nixon agonistes: the crisis of the self-made man (1970) / Robert Westbrook -- Victor Navasky, Naming names (1980) / Jon Wiener -- Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) / Melani McAlister.