American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. It is designed as an alternative to maintaining a collection of widely variable, and often incomplete, chronologies that take the form of picture books, encyclopedias, monographs and statistical sources. None offers the single-source convenience and consistency required to easily compare social history trends from decade to decade. Each volume of this lauded set concentrates on the social aspects of a 10-year period in American history, covering arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy and sports.