Category: Series: Generations
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Introduction to Strauss and Howe
More than twenty years, I was in graduate school at Kansas State University, studying sociology and demography. There was considerable interest at the time in the Baby Boom generation. Landon Jones published his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation in the fall of 1980. The Baby Boom generation was named as such…
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History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but it Rhymes
What time is it? Ask that question; usually, someone will look at a watch and tell you what it reads. Actually, there are several valid answers to the question. How about daytime? Wintertime? Christmastime? Wartime? Downtime? Dinnertime? Tool-Time? (Okay. Maybe not the last one.) All these have in common that they mark some point in…