The 1940s Lifestyles and Social Trends: For More Information

BOOKS

Baker, Patricia. Fashions of a Decade: The 1940s. New York: Facts on File, 1992.

Buchanan, A. Russell. Black Americans in World War II. Santa Barbara, CA: Clio, 1977.

Chronicle of the Twentieth Century. Mount Cisco, NY: Chronicle, 1994.

Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. The United States in the Cold War. New York: Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, 2001.

Cook, Chris, and David Waller, eds. The Longman Handbook of Modern American History, 1763–1996. New York: Longman, 1998.

Diggins, John P. The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941–1960. New York: Norton, 1988.

Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York: Norton, 1998.

Heal, Edith. The Teen-Age Manual: A Guide to Popularity and Success. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948.

Hunt, Marsha. The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and '40s and Our World Since Then. Fallbrook, CA: Fallbrook, 1993.

Isaacs, Sally Senzell. America in the Time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Story of Our Nation from Coast to Coast, from 1929 to 1948. Des Plaines, IL: Heinemann Library, 2000.

Keylin, Arleen, and Jonathan Cohen, eds. The Forties. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

Martin, Richard. Jocks and Nerds: Men's Style in the Twentieth Century. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.

May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Melton, J. Gordon. American Religions: An Illustrated History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

Moloney, James H. Encyclopedia of American Cars, 1930–1942. Glen Ellyn, IL: Crestline, 1977.

Olian, JoAnne. Everyday Fashions of the Forties as Pictured in Sears Catalogs. New York: Dover Publications, 1992.

Packard, Robert T., and Balthazar Korab. Encyclopedia of American Architecture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Reynolds, Helen. The 40s & 50s: Utility to New Look. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens, 2000.

Rollin, Lucy. Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Press. Westport, CT: 1999.

Sicherman, Barbara, and Carol Hurd Green, editors. Notable American Women: The Modern Period, a Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Terkel, Studs. The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

Willson, Quentin. Classic American Cars. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1997.

Wood, Tim, and R.J. Unstead. The 1940s. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.

WEB SITES

Great Buildings Online. [Online] http://www.greatbuildings.com (accessed March, 2002).

Hales, Peter Bacon. Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb. [Online] http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html (accessed March, 2002).

National Archives and Records Administration. Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II. [Online] http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html (accessed March, 2002).