The Twentieth Century

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• Ad Access - images and information on over 7,000 ads found in newspapers and magazines from 1911 to 1955
  Cotton Club Reviews - gives the history and music of this famous 20s night sport

• American Culture in the 1920s - student presentations from James Madison University

• Greatest Films of the 1920s - search by year

• American Cultural History - this is an excellent site on the culture  of the twenties- a first stop for your research

• The Harlem Renaissance - poems, art, and history

from the Library of Congress

• The Harlem Renaissance from John Carroll University; click on the tabs to access the information

• Music of the 1920s

Slang

• 1920's Slang - alphabetical list of slang words used in the 20s

Fashions

• 20th century Fashions - provides year by year fashions for this decade

History

• Chicago Exhibition - exhibits on Al Capone, The Chicago Fire, the Black Sox Scandal

• Temperance and Prohibition - this site from Ohio State University provides the history of the temperance movement

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Culture

• American Cultural history 1950-1959 - everything about the fifties from television to rock and roll to poodle skirts; this site is all inclusive
• The Fifties Web - search this site for the culture
• Oldies Unlimited - music of the 50s from the Fifties Web
• Fashions of the Fifties - overview with links to the fasions
• Barbie - History home page for the Barbie doll; click on Barbie's 40th Anniversary to find information about Barbie in 1959(40 years with Barbie)

History

• CNN Cold War series - - CNN also provides interactive topics based on their award winning series. It has information on the Bomb, espionage, culture, technology, primary documents, and a chronology. The Knowledge Bank contains a glossary, biographies and maps. This has a wealth of information on this topic
• Cold War International History Project - site is maintained by the Woodrow Wilson International School for Scholars in Washington, DC; this site has primary source material on the Cold War - just click on the Virtual Library
• United Nations - facts about the UN, its charter and organization
• United Nations - 50th Anniversary from CNN; click on the timeline to look for information on the formation of the UN and its involvement in world peacekeeping missions
• NATO - click on welcome to get an overview of the history of NATO; look at organization to find the members of NATO
• The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan - this is an exhibit at the Library of Congress
• The Korean War - this site contains enormous amounts of information on the Korean War ranging from the Army Handbook to each country's involvement to personal narratives - this cannot be accessed from school because of the filters, but you can access it from home.
• Korean War - the site commemorates the 50th anniversary
• The Story of McCarthyism - this is from Spartacus encyclopedia; scroll down for events, organizations, blacklisted and the investigators
• Berlin Airlift - photos, texts, and archives; from the Truman library
• The Berlin Wall - a chronology of the history of the Wall includes history in text and pictures
• The History of the Berlin Wall -  - interactive exhibit of news stories about Wall
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion -40 years after
• NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis - looks at the role of the U.S. National Security Agency in gathering intelligence during the crisis
• The War for Vietnam from PBS
• The Warsaw Pact - primary document
• Warsaw Pact - an excellent explanation from the Library of Congress

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Culture

• American Cultural History 1960 -1969 - everything about the sixties from cars to music to fads poodle skirts; this is one-stop shopping for this decade
• The Sixties
• The Boomers Page: The Sixties - be sure to look at the chronology for a summary of the major events of this decade and the Boomer Years to discover what happened during each year; you can even find information on the music and test your knowledge of the decade by taking the Sixties Quiz; this is a very good site}
• Psychedelic 60s - this is mainly about the literature of the decade and social change
• Fashions of the 60s - brief introduction; scroll down for fashion links

History

• Timeline of the 60s - this timeline provides a year by year description of events and news; even provides prices and statistics from the decade
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion - documents about the invasions
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion - an anniversary article about the invasion
• NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Martin Luther King, Jr. - this site at Stanford University has the papers of Dr. King
• The Kennedy Assassination - this is an excellent site which presents factual information on the Kennedy assassination including Lee Harvey Oswald, The Single Bullet Theory, Dealey Plaza, Medical Evidence, and much, much more.  Be sure to review the articles at the bottom of the page
  The Assassination Archives and Research Center - this organization makes a large number of files available online.  Includes more than 35,000 pages of reports, transcripts and other documents that relate to November 22
  Museum at Dealey Plaza - this site examines the Kennedy - Castro connection; be sure to click on special exhibits
  The Kennedy Assassination - 40 years later from PBS; this site contains excellent information including the Zapruder film; Historians discuss the public's perceptions of the many conspiracy theories still associated with the president's untimely death.

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Culture

• It's Groovy - the culture of the 70s
• The Seventies - this site provides a cultural history of this decade from cars to platform shoes to pong; be sure to look at this site
• The 1970s - from Nostalgia; history, culture including music, television, movies  and fashion
• Hit Shows of the 70s
• American Cultural History - from Kingwood College; be sure to scroll down for links to art, music, literature
• History of Punk
• Fashions of the 70s - scroll down for examples

History

• The Vietnam War Archive - pictures and audio files
• The Vietnam War - this is from PBS's television show, Vietnam a television history
• The Watergate Decade - photographs from the seventies emphasizing Watergate; also includes the Carter and Reagan administrations

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