| Round Table: A Critical Moment: World War II and Its Aftermath at Home, Introduction | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Round Table: A Critical Moment: World War II and Its Aftermath at Home

As Gary Gerstle writes in his commentary at the end of this round table, the decade of the 1940s was a critical moment in U.S. history. Sixty years after the end of World War II, and thousands of books and articles later, historians are still discovering new ways that the war changed American life. Three articles in this issue of the Journal of American History are examples of this ever-growing historiography. Part of the story of the American home front is the dramatic growth of government involvement in the economic and social life of the country. Another part is about ordinary people's response to that new regime of big government. As the articles in this round table make clear, ordinary Americans seized the moment, and in the unsettled atmosphere of war, they struggled to turn the power of government to their own advantage.

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