This article presents an intellectual and social history of the concept of the baby boom. Researchers first invented the notion of a population bulge in the mid-twentieth-century United States to explain birth rates that were higher than predicted by their theories of a mature population and economy. As the children born during this “baby boom”…
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Modern American History is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Race, History, and American Society, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Legal Cases and Commentary.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Modern American History 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Race, History, and American Society Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Legal Cases and Commentary American Constitutional Law and Politics American History and Culture |
| ISSN | 2397-1851 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.13 |
| h-index | 16 |
| i10-index | 21 |
| Total citations | 597 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Duke University |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org |
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World War II transformed policing in the United States. Many police enlisted in the military during the war, and in turn many veterans joined police forces following the victories of 1945. As wartime labor shortages depleted their ranks, police chiefs turned to new initiatives to strengthen and professionalize their forces, redoubling those efforts as growing…
In 1998, the Canadian historian and politician Michael Ignatieff wrote: “All nations depend on forgetting: on forging myths of unity and identity that allow a society to forget its founding crimes, its hidden injuries and divisions, its unhealed wounds.” Ironically, Ignatieff's home country has belied his assertion. Canada has engaged in collective remembering of one…
In 1917 Congress passed the Trading with the Enemy Act to prevent trade with Germany and the Central Powers. It was a wartime law designed for wartime conditions but one that, over the course of the following century, took on a secret, surprising life of its own. Eventually it became the basis for a project…
This essay argues that historical scholarship has taken an infrastructural turn in recent years. “Infrastructure” serves not just as a popular keyword in monographs and journal articles; it reflects a new approach to research that has permeated the field. An infrastructural approach offers a framework for historians to understand the power of traditional structures like…