Source in Context Essays

Each member of our class produced a formal research paper aimed at a scholarly audience in which we researched and analyzed our chosen primary source to discover what it revealed about the values, attitudes and practices that mainstream American society sought to encourage and discourage in teenagers of the early Cold War era.[1]

Below are links to some of our papers. Read them to find out more about the individual items in our exhibit and how we interpreted them.

If you are interested, please also visit the companion website the graduate students in out class built in Scalar. It's called "Constructing a Culture" and can be viewed here.

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