CSPAN3 Lectures In History Dwight Eisenhower And 1950s Political Advertising July 14, 2024
American people were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike, its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth and its a political construction. The 1950s in fact was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflicts, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently anticommunists took away civil liberties. And these are all different areas of po...