focuses on actual knowledge about the past / considers a set of 11 political, social, and cultural events spread over the past 60 yrs, with each event posed separately / [Ss were 18-80 yr olds] / although the main concern is with the generational basis of knowledge, other social identities are considered that might contribute to making facts from the past ‘stick,’ as well as the possible interaction of these identities with generational location / consideration is given to how generational experience can affect expectations about the recurrence in the future of an important type of political event from the past / reasons are discussed as to why events may (or may not) have differential impacts on cohorts (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved) (from the chapter)