A generation is a cohort, not a character
The Baby Boomers were born across eighteen years of change.
A grounded starting point for reading the cohort: define the years, notice age and period effects, and avoid treating millions of lives as one story.
Photo: Vitaly Gariev
Start with the evidence
Use the label to ask better questions about history and demography, not to predict what any one person is like.
This short edition draws on the sources listed in Source notes. Each page says what its evidence supports and where interpretation begins.