Homeward Bound
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This is the book that made me want to become a historian.......more

For those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in American suburbia, Elaine Tyler May’s Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era provides a walk down memory lane. While we all experienced the “duck and drop” drills at school and remember watching “I Love Lucy” and “Leave it to Beave......more

In Homeward Bound Elaine Tyler May seeks to explain the phenomenal rise of the nuclear family in post war America. In the years following the end of WWII marriage rates soared to all time highs, divorce rates dropped and birth rates exploded in what came to be known as the ‘baby boom’. Previous scho......more

This is a very interesting topic with very interesting information that some people might find dry but left me wanting to read more. Homeward Bound looks at the relationships of husbands and wives during the Cold War years. Elaine Tyler May uses data from the Kelly Longitudinal Study, which was cond......more

Elaine May’s Homeward Bound asks why Americans made so much of family after World War Two. The book makes an important contribution in that it historicizes the mid-20th century family. May notes that, and this certainly speaks to my own experiences growing up toward the end of the Cold War, it is wi......more