Millennials

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/27/2020
  

  The Unluckiest Generation In U.S. History

  Economic data suggest that Millennials aren't just complaining. Their early years on the job market have been affected by the Great Recession and COVID and seen less growth than any other generation.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/17/2020
  

  “I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility”

  Today’s 40-year-olds on the lives they’ve led, and now this.

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• SOURCE: PJ Media
  8-22-18
  

  Millennials Don't Think America Was Ever That Great

  by Rick Moran

  Liberal teachers have left students with the impression that the concept of American exceptionalism is a scam.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-15-17
  

  Why 41 percent of white millennials voted for Trump

  Economic anxiety isn’t driving racial resentment; rather, racial resentment is driving economic anxiety.

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• SOURCE: karenlcoxauthor.com
  12-15-17
  

  Karen L. Cox says historians shouldn’t be afraid to embrace YouTube to reach millennials

  The YouTube generation want to learn and be entertained at the same time.

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• SOURCE: PSYBLOG
  9-27-17 (accessed)
  

  The Most Narcissistic Generation Was Born Between These Years

  And they reject the label.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-31-17
  

  Do Millennial Men Want Stay-at-Home Wives?

  by Stephanie Coontz

  New research indicates a stall, maybe even a retreat, in the movement toward gender equality.

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• SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio
  12-22-16
  

  Historian Says Teenagers Were A Coveted Demographic In 19th Century Political Life

  Jon Grinspan, a Smithsonian historian, reports in his new book that young people voted en masse in wild and spectacular fashion, and were by far the most coveted demographic in politics.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  8-30-16
  

  Why do we think Millennials like to share and not buy stuff? Blame these 2 pop historians.

  by Laura Marsh

  William Strauss and Neil Howe, a popular-historian duo, coined the term “millennial” in 1987, to refer to the children who would graduate high school in the year 2000.

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• SOURCE: PSYBLOG
  3-27-16
  

  The Most Narcissistic Generation Were Born Between These Years

  People born between 1988 and 1994 — so-called “millennials” — are the most narcissistic generation ever.

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  9-3-15
  

  Most Millennials Resist the ‘Millennial’ Label

  Only Baby Boomers by in large think of themselves as members of a certain generation. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-15-14
  

  The Millennials Are Generation Nice

  Suddenly, as you may have noticed, millennials are everywhere.

• SOURCE: LA Times
  4-21-13
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman: Colleges as Country Clubs

  Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York University. He is the author of "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory."My daughter is a junior in high school, so I've spent part of this spring making that upper-middle-class pilgrimage known as "the college tour."But as we were led across sweeping lawns by tour guides walking backward, I found myself thinking less about my daughter's looming college experience and more about how different her life will be after she graduates.I've also been thinking about "Girls," the television series about four young women trying to make ends meet in New York. Three of them are depicted as recent graduates of Oberlin, which is also the alma mater of "Girls" creator and lead actress Lena Dunham.