The Twentieth Century
IMC Resources General Web Resources The Decades
History
Resource Center-US from Thomson/Gale
Historical New York Times from Proquest
SIRS Decades from Proquest
American History from ABC-CLIO
American
History from Facts on File
Gale Virtual
Reference Library from Thomson/Gale
WebCollection
Plus is are online catalog; use this to locate books, videos,
DVDs on your topic
Use a Power Search to locate books on specific diseases
Multimedia
AP Multimedia Archive
from AccuNet - use for pictures
Learn 360 from Gloucester County AVA
Safari
Montage
United Streaming
General Resources on the Web
The History
of Fashion - from 1900 - 1990
Web Generation - a pop culture
resource
It Seems Like Yesterday -
click into each picture for a decade (1950-1979) and then click on table of
contents
Flashback - this
site will give you information on the economy including individual prices for
consumer items. Can also get information on the movies, television, books and
sports. t is arranged by decade and can be searched by year. This will
also give a list of top music and album year by year.
Greatest Films - lists of films
by decade
Internet Movie Database -
includes summaries, actors and awards; search by year
Grammy Awards - search for your award
winners by decade
Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
Writers Dream Tools - history by the decades, which includes slang, music,
listing of events
Television News Archive - from
Vanderbilt University; get transcripts of events covered in the evening news
Toys - Forbes magazine
article with pictures on the most popular toys of the last 100 years
History of Toys - from the History Channel
History of Toys
- story behind the invention of many toys
Time Magazine - Browse the
covers of Time. Search for your decade, click on the cover, read the table
of contents, cover story and related articles.
Adflip - the site has ads from the decades
Decade by Decade
20s 30s
40s 50s
60s 70s
80s 90s
The 20s
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 sportAmerican 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
The Harlem Renaissance
from John Carroll University; click on the tabs to access the
information
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
30s (General Resources, The Great Depression, Labor, The Dust Bowl, Music of the Depression)
- The Lindbergh Case - Contains complete information about the kidnapping and trials. Includes newspaper articles, and photographs
- The 1930s Project - this is an excellent site from the University of Virginia looks at the 1930s through film, radio programs, literature, journalism, exhibitions, architecture, art and other forms of culture.
The Great Depression and New Deal
- American from the Great Depression to World War II - these photographs from the Library of Congress show Americans in every part of the nation and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization and the Dust Bowl
- Comparing Prices - Then and Now - comparing prices during The Great Depression
- A Photo essay of the Great Depression – includes images of impact of the depression
- How the Depression Affected Children – this is from a series of letters sent to Mrs. Roosevelt during The Great Depression. Be sure click on the arrow next to contents to continue reading
- Images of the Great Depression – Photographs which display the plight of the homeless
The New Deal Network - documentary library of 700 articles, speeches and letter and photo gallery from the National Archives of FDR's New Deal
- Surviving the Dust Bowl - this PBS program includes people, events, a timeline, and films
- Riding the Rails – teenagers and homelessness during the Great Depression
- The American Memory Collection – this collection documents the lives of Dust Bowl migrants living in Farm Security Administration (FSA) camps in California
- The Dustbowl – an overview
- About the Dustbowl – provides an overview with images and a timeline of events
- The Migrant Experience – conditions affecting migrant workers
- Weedpatch Camp – this is the migrant camp that Steinbeck used in his novel, The Grapes of Wrath; this is an excellent site which includes children of the dust bowl. Personal remembrances and the history of the camp; the camp is still used by migrant workers today
The Mother Road – history of Route 66
- Labor Union During the Great Depression – sponsored by the American Memory Project
- Brother Can You Spare a Dime includes audio file
- Music of the 30s - includes audio files
The 40s
- The Forties - overview of the work of scientists to support the war effort
- The New Deal Network - contains primary documents, history, photo gallery and articles.
- The Cold War - this CNN covers all aspects of the Cold War
The 50s
Culture
- American Cultural history 1950-1959 - everything about the fifties from television to rock and roll to poodle skirts; this site is all inclusive
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
The 60s
everything about the sixties from cars to music to fads poodle skirts; this is one-stop shopping for this decadeCulture
History
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- 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;
The 70s
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
The 80s
Totally the 80s -
music, television, culture and fashion
The 80s - Kingswood
College - American Popular Culture
In the 80s - pop culture site devoted
to the
music,
movies,
television,
fashion/fads and
world events of the 1980s
The 90s
In the 90s - pop culture site devoted
to the
music,
movies,
television,
fashion/fads and
world events of the 1990s
Fog of War - Washington Post's coverage of the Persian Gulf War
Desert Storm - Coverage of the Gulf
War
The 90s - this site
from Kingswood College covers the history and culture of this decade
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