A fascinating survey of American food trends that highlights the key inventions, brands, restaurant chains, and individuals that shaped the American diet and palate in the 20th century. In the United States today, how and what we eat—with all of its myriad ethnic varieties and endless choices—is firmly entrenched in every part of our culture. The American diet underwent constant evolution throughout the 20th century, starting from the meat-and-potatoes fare of the early-20th century and maturing into a culture that embraced the cuisines of immigrant populations, fast-food chains, health fads, and emerging gourmet tastes. Societal changes moved women out of the kitchen and into the workforce, spawning the invention of convenience foods and time-saving kitchen appliances. American Food by the Decades is an entertaining chronological survey of food trends in the United States during the 20th century. The book is organized by decades to illustrate how changes in society directly influenced dietary and dining habits as they emerged over the last 100 years. Detailed encyclopedic entries provide fascinating glimpses into history by telling the true stories behind the foods, restaurants, grocery stores, and cooking trends of the previous century.

This 1950 collection of public documents on U.S. foreign policy of the period 1941-49 has been revised in connection with the events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. It retains nearly 90 percent of the documents in the original edition and includes 18 new ones to fill gaps in the historical record. The volume covers wartime documents looking toward peace, conferences on the peace settlement; the basic organization of the United Nations, its specialized agencies and programs; Latin America and the Caribbean; the war and peace settlements in Austria, Japan, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Rumania and Bulgaria; major postwar negotiations and issues concerning Canada, China, France, Greece and Turkey, U.K., the U.S.S.R.; human rights, and information and educational excange; new nations such as India, Pakistan, Korea, and the Phillipines; economic recovery; arms control, and national security. S/N 044-000-02050-5 (pbk.) $20.00.

This reference documents and analyzes periods of contemporary American social history such as the roaring twenties, the depression years, World War II, and the 60s. There are 10 volumes altogether and each includes: a chronology of the decade; subject chapters with background essays; subject-specific chronologies and alphabetically arranged items depicting the people, ideas, and facts important during that period.

Contains over two thousand primary sources on twentieth-century American history and culture, featuring seventy-five different types of sources, arranged chronologically in twelve categories, including the arts, education, government and politics, media, medicine and health, religion, and sports.