Basic Illustrated History of America #07-2340

Part of Pendulum Press's *Basic Illustrated History of America* series, this 1976 volume covers the sweeping arc of postwar America from 1945 to 1976. The cover art captures the era's defining energies in a vivid collage: a massive public demonstration with protesters carrying signs near what appears to be the Washington Mall, a group of determined marchers striding forward together, an astronaut in full spacesuit, and the columned façade of a grand civic building. At $1.25, this illustrated volume offered readers a colorful, comics-format window into three transformative decades of American life — civil rights, the space age, and the social upheavals that reshaped the nation.