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Research Project Tools
THE 1900's
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
- Ash Can School
- Assassination of President McKinley (C-Span)
- Child Labor in America, 1908-1912 Photographs by Lewis W. Hine
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
- Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920
- Escape Artist Harry Houdini
- Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (City of San Francisco Virtual Museum)
- Harry Houdini
- Henry Ford Museum & Greenwich Village
- History of Child Labor - Reform Movement
- Lessons from Wall Street's "Panic of 1907'
- Murder of Grace Brown
- Panic of 1907
- Theodore Roosevelt Center
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company
- Wright Brothers National Memorial National Park Service
THE 1910'S
- 1918-19 Spanish Influenza Pandemic and Vaccine Development (History of Vaccines) NEW
- 1919 World Series - Chicago Black Sox (Chicago Historical Society)
- America During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Digital Public Library of America) NEW
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
- Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 (Digital Public Library of America) NEW
- Child Labor in America, 1908-1912 Photographs by Lewis W. Hine
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
- Eastland Disaster - Chicago 1915
- Eastland Disaster - Archived Film
- Eastland Disaster: Rare Tribune Photos
- Echoes of the Great War Online Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920
- Eyewitness to World War I
- The First World War
- First World War (Google Cultural Institute)
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- The Great War PBS Retired Series on YouTube (PBS)
- History of Child Labor - Reform Movement
- The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (National Archives)
- Panama Canal
- Patriotic Labor: America During World War I (Digital Public Library of America) NEW
- PBS Great War Website on YouTube
- Spanish Influenza: Then and Now (History of Vaccines) NEW
- Triangle Factory Fire
- Triangle Fire Trial: 1911 (Famous Trials) NEW
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (History Channel)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Woodrow Wilson Library
- World War I (Epic TV 7 video series) NEW
- World War I: Trenches on the Web
THE 1920'S
- 1920's Movie History Timeline
- Chicago in the Roaring Twenties NEW (Thanks O!)
- Dances of the Jazz Age NEW
- Black Sox Trial (1921) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Dismuke's 1920s & 1930s Electrically Recorded Phonograph Recordings
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
- Eyewitness to History: 20th century
- Farming in the 1920's (Wessels Living History Farm)
- FBI History
- Flappers (ushistory.org)
- Flappers (History.com)
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
- Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States (Digital Public Library of America) NEW
- Jazz Age: The American 1920s (Digital History)
- Looking Back at the Crash of '29 (New York Times)
- Monkey Trial
- Prohibition: The Ban on Alcohol (JosLyn Law Firm - Cincinnati, Ohio) NEW (Thanks J.)
- Roaring Twenties (1920-30.com)
- Roaring Twenties (History.com)
- Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Temperance and Prohibition (Ohio State University)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
THE 1930'S
- 1930s Music on Last.FM
- Al Capone Trial (1931) (Famous Trials) NEW
- American Experience: Surviving the Dustbowl (PBS)
- American Memories: WPA Life Histories Collection (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal (Digital Public Library of America) NEW
- Dismuke's 1920s & 1930s Electrically Recorded Phonograph Recordings
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
- Dust Bowl (PBS)
- Farm Security Administration (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Farming in the 1930's (Wessels Living History Farm)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Digital Archives
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- Great Depression: What Happened... (The Balance)
- Hindenburg Disaster (Airships.net)
- Holocaust under 1940s
- Lindbergh Kidnapping (FBI)
- New Deal (History.com)
- "Scottsboro Boys" Trials (1931-1937) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Show Must Go On: American Theater During the Depression (Digital Public Library of America) NEW
- TVA: From the New Deal to a New Century (Tennessee Valley Authority)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
THE 1940'S
- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Civil Rights Movement (Bill of Rights Institute)
- Dr. Seuss Goes to War (a catalog of political cartoons by Dr. Seuss)
- Eyewitness to World War Two
- Farming in the 1940's (Wessels Living History Farm)
- For European Recovery: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan (Library of Congress)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on YouTube
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
- Hiroshima Peace Site
- History of Hot Rodding - 1940s and 1950s NEW
- History of the United Nations
- Holocaust
- Anne Frank the Writer (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
- Cybrary of the Holocaust
- Holocaust on ThoughtCo
- Holocaust Memorial Center
- Stories of the Holocaust (Google Cultural Institute)
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II (Atomic Heritage Foundation)
- Japanese Relocation and Internment (National Archives)
- Korean War and Its Origins (Truman Library)
- Manhattan Project (Atomic Heritage Foundation) NEW
- Manhattan Project (History.com)
- Manhattan Project (National Park Service)
- Manhattan Project Background (Energy.gov) NEW
- A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution (Smithsonian)
- National WWII Museum (New Orleans)
- NATO 1949 (Office of the Historian)
- Paul's Video Jukebox of Songs from the 40s
- Perilous Fight: America's World War II (PBS)
- Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps (Digital Public Library of America) NEW
- Second World War (Google Cultural Institute)
- Tuskegee Airmen (Knowitall.org)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Who "invented' the TV Dinner? (Library of Congress)
THE 1950'S
- 17 Slang Terms from the 1950s NEW
- The 1950s (History Channel) NEW
- 1950s Teenager NEW
- Birmingham Campaign (PBS)
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Brown Foundation
- Brown V Topeka Board of Ed. (1951) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Civil Rights Movement (Bill of Rights Institute)
- Civil Rights Movement (PBS)
- Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Decades.com - Across the Decades 50's
- Dr. Jonas Salk Announces Polio Vaccine (History.com) NEW
- Emmett Till Murder (1955) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Farming in the 50s and 60s (Wessels Living History Farm)
- The Fifties Web: the Retro 50s, 60s, and 70s Source
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- History of Hot Rodding - 1940s and 1950s NEW
- How McCarthyism Worked NEW
- Korean War (History.com)
- Korean War and Its Origins (Truman Library)
- Levittown: The Imperfect Rise of the American Suburbs (US History Scene) NEW
- Life with Teenagers in the 1950s (Time) NEW
- Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (Montgomery Advisor)
- Paul's Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s to Early 60s
- Rosenberg Trial (1951) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Rockabilly Quotes and Retro Phrases of the 1950's NEW
- Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress)
- Teen Dances of the 1950s NEW
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Whatever Happened to Polio (Smithsonian)
THE 1960'S
- 1960s Flashback
- Apollo Program (NASA)
- Apollo Program Part 1: Tragedy to Triumph (Epic History TV) NEW
- Apollo Program Part 2: One Giant Leap (Epic History TV) NEW
- Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
- The Berlin Wall of Sound by Berliner Mauer
- Birmingham Campaign (PBS)
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Chicago Blizzard of 1967 (Chicago Tribune)
- "The Chicago Eight" (or "Chicago Seven") Trial (1969 - 1970) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Civil Rights Movement (Bill of Rights Institute)
- Civil Rights Movement (PBS)
- Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Cuban Missile Crisis (JFK Library)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (National Security Archive)
- Decades.com - Across the decades 1960s
- Fallout Shelters
- Farming in the 50s and 60s (Wessels Living History Farm)
- The Fifties Web: the Retro 50s, 60s, and 70s Source
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- Great Chicago Storm of 1967
(Courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, original source no longer available) - Greg Knight's Patio Culture (Suburban America)
- JFK Assassination Reports and Records
- John F. Kennedy Interactive Exhibits
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on YouTube
- July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (NASA)
- LBJ Presidential Library
- March on Washington (PBS)
- Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
- Paul's Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s and 60s
- (Click Visit the 60s box on upper middle left side for 1962-1970)
- The Psychedelic ‘60s: Literary tradition and Social Change ( (University of Virginia Library)
- Race to the Moon (Digital Public Library of America) NEW
- Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Vietnam War (History.com)
- We Shall Overcome: Historic Civil Rights Sites (National Park Service)
- When the Wall Went Up: Berlin 1961 (Radio Free Europe)
THE 1970'S
- 1970s Disco Dances NEW
- 1970s Flashback
- Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
- Blizzard of 1979 (Chicago-l.org)
(Courtesy of Internet Archive Wayback Machine, original site old enough that may be
considered unsafe to visit) - Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Decades.com - Across the Decades 1970s
- Disco-Disco.com
- Disco Lifestyle NEW
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Farming in the 1970s to Today (Wessels Living History Farm)
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- History of Earth Day
- In the 70s.Com
- May Fourth Collection - Kent State University Tragedy
- My 70's TV
- Patty Hearst Trial (1976) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Paul's Video Jukebox - 1970s
- Pentagon Papers (History.com)
- Pentagon Papers (National Archives) NEW
- Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg) Trial (1973) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Richard Nixon Library
- Seventies Preservation Society
- Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
- Super Seventies Rocksite
- Three Mile Island (Smithsonian)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Vietnam War (History.com)
- Watergate Files (Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum)
- Watergate.info
THE 1980'S
- 1980s Flashback
- The Berlin Wall of Sound by Berliner Mauer
- Black Monday 1987
- Challenger: Shuttle Disaster (Space.com)
- Chernobyl (Livescience)
- Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Decades.com - Across the Decades 1980s
- Equal Rights Amendment NEW
- Exon Valdez (History.com)
- Fall of the Iron Curtain (Google Cultural Institute)
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- History of AIDS (History.com)
- In the 80s.Com
- Iran Contra Scandal
- MTV (Music Television)
Originally on the Museum of Broadcast Communications it is not found on the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive - My 80's TV
- Paul's Video Jukebox - 1980s
- Ronald Reagan Library
- Shuttle Mission Archive (NASA)
- Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
- Tylenol Case Revisited (Chicago Tribune)
- Understanding the Iran Contra Scandal
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center) NEW
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial National Park Service
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial - The Wall
THE 1990's
- 1990s Flashback
- Before Netscape: the Forgotten Browsers (ARs Technica)
- Clinton Impeachment Trial (1999) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Clinton Library
- Columbine NEW
- Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Frontline: the Gulf War (PBS)
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- George H. W. Bush Library
- History of NAFTA and It's Purpose (The Balance)
- In the 90s.Com
- My 90's TV
- Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
- Oklahoma City Bombing (History.com)
- Oklahoma City Bombing Trial (1997) (Famous Trials) NEW
- Operation Desert Storm (National Security Agency)
- Panama Canal
- People History - 1990s
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Waco: the Inside Story (PBS)
- Watch the 90s
- What Really Happened at Columbine (60 Minutes CBS) NEW
- World Trade Center Bombing 1993
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Links updated May 15, 2021