“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.

This article explores the defining characteristics of each generation, from the Greatest Generation to Gen Beta, highlighting their unique experiences ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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

With his book “The Greatest Generation,” TV journalist Tom Brokaw bestowed a lasting coronation upon Americans born between the early 1900s and the mid-1920s.

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 ...

However, if any generation must be named the "Greatest," it should be the one just prior to ours. Its members held the country together through the hard times of the 1930s, ...