With bright eyes, post-World War II baby boom children filled “toylands” at area stores, amazed at the brightly colored offerings as local retailers stacked the shelves for lucrative Christmas ...
In 1957, the post-World War II baby boom peaked. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to uphold the court-ordered integration of public schools, and the Little Rock Nine bravely ...
After the war, the birth rate increased dramatically. Although many people assume that the baby boom happened ... periods of post-war prosperity, notably the period after World War I, had not ...
Jones’s “Great Expectations: America & the Baby Boom Generation,” a 1980 dissection ... lavished on them — the children that World War II had been fought for, as Jones put it — our ...