History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1840 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Television
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The idea
In nineteen fifty fewer than four million American households, nine percent, owned a television; five years later over thirty million did, nearly sixty-five percent, the anchor records.
In practice
Families gathered around a set in the living room.
Where people slip
The Yawp gives twelve percent of households in nineteen fifty and more than eighty-seven percent by nineteen sixty.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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