“The Greatest Generation” suffered through the Great Depression and World War II. Having lived through scarcity and war, they did not want their children to experience the same hardships.

From politics to meme-ing, the group is deadly serious about changing the world. ... Gen-Z: We’re the greatest generation By . Suzy Weiss. Published June 30, 2020, 2:55 p.m. ET.

Many would go on to lead the civil-rights movement. It was the Greatest Generation that passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, signed by World War II veteran Lyndon Johnson.

The Greatest Generation describes the cohort of Americans born between the decades of the 1900s and the 1920s that lived through the Great Depression and WWII. Skip to content. News ...

Moreover, government was bending to the needs of the greatest generation — for good and ill — long before they did anything great. Historians William Strauss and Neal Howe made this argument ...

I hear the current new generation is called “Gen Z.” What happened to actual names—the Greatest Generation, baby boomers, millennials? What’s with the letters, and why did we start with Gen X?

The letter “Who Can Fill the Greatest Generation’s Shoes?” (June 10) typifies the adulation often lavished on America’s so-called greatest generation. But the generation that did “storm ...

The "Greatest Generation,” conversely, over the course of about four decades, worked to enshrine our nation's values and build the entire societal infrastructure upon w ...

Commencement season is winding down and, with newly minted graduates beginning their rise in the ranks in the workplace, I want to offer an appreciation for this new greatest generation. Yes, I ...

The Greatest Generation was forged in a hardship that followed them to their graves. Those experiences gave them a reliable discernment between wants and needs, and an understanding of how to ...

Popular books have argued that today's 20-somethings are more service-oriented than any generation since World War II. But new research suggests the opposite.