Economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s was driven by the need for new residential housing and increased spending on consumer goods. The postwar baby boom and the movement of people away from central ...

Like Pope Leo XIV, who turns out to be a regular South Sider who follows the White Sox, the Dolton house where he grew up is ...

The postwar economic boom, greatly affected by advances in science, produced epic changes in American life. Content Statement 30. The continuing population flow from cities to suburbs ... of internal ...

Context: The 1950s were a time of a post-war economic boom where suburbs exploded amid a baby boom as the nation embarked on building a massive highway system. Rock-n-roll placed jazz as the most ...

And by the end of the 1950s boom, home ownership had climbed to 61 percent. Today, two out of every three Americans own their own homes. Increasingly, those homes are in the suburbs; 12 percent in ...

The move comes less than a year after local officials approved a redevelopment agreement that includes $96 million in public ...

It was the first big boom since the 1880s gold rush. There was even more dramatic growth in the suburbs . . . (which) started to boom in the 1950s." Much of the population increase after the war was ...

Koeth, an assistant history professor at Notre Dame, debuts with a scrupulous study of the profound changes Catholicism underwent during the midcentury suburban boom. Replacing the structure of ...