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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

• 1919 World Series - Chicago Black Sox (Chicago Historical Society)
• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
• 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
• PBS Great War Website on YouTube
• Triangle Factory Fire
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (History Channel)
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
• Woodrow Wilson Library
  
• World War I: Trenches on the Web

THE 1920'S

• 1920's Movie History Timeline
  
• Dances of the Jazz Age 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
• Flapper History
• Flappers
• General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
• Jazz Age: The American 1920s (Digital History)
• Looking Back at the Crash of '29 (New York Times)
• Monkey Trial
• Roaring Twenties (1920-30.com)
• Roaring Twenties (History.com)
• Temperance and Prohibition (Ohio State University)
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)

THE 1930'S

• 1930s Music on Last.FM
  
• American Experience: Surviving the Dustbowl (PBS)
  
• American Memories: WPA Life Histories Collection (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  
• 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)
  
• 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
  • Holocaust Survivors
  • 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
  
• The Perilous Fight: America's World War II (PBS)
• 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
  
• Civil Rights Movement (Bill of Rights Institute)
• Civil Rights Movement (PBS)
• The Cold War: the Manhattan Project (U.S. Department of Energy)
• Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
• Decades.com - Across the Decades 50's
• 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)
• Life with Teenagers in the 1950s (Time) NEW
  
• Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
• Montgomery Bus Boycott (Montgomery Advisor)
• NASA: Human Spaceflight History
• Paul's Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s to Early 60s
• Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress)
• Teen Dances of the 1950s NEW
  
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
• Welcome to Levitown
• Whatever Happened to Polio (Smithsonian)

THE 1960'S

• 1960s Flashback
• Apollo Program (NASA)
  
• Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
• The Berlin Wall of Sound by Berliner Mauer
• Birmingham Campaign (PBS)
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
• Chicago Blizzard of 1967 (Chicago Tribune)
• 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
• 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
• The March on Washington (National Public Radio - NPR)
• March on Washington (PBS)
• Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
• NASA: Human Spaceflight History
• 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)
• 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.org)
  
• 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
• NASA: Human Spaceflight History
• Paul's Video Jukebox - 1970s
• Pentagon Papers (History.com)
• Pentagon Papers (National Archives) 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

• The 80's (National Geographic)
• 1980s Flashback
• The Berlin Wall of Sound by Berliner Mauer
• Black Monday 1987
• Challenger: Shuttle Disaster (Space.com)
• Chernobyl (Livescience)
• Cold War Museum
• Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
• Decades.com - Across the Decades 1980s
• Equal Rights Amendment
• 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
  
• NASA: Human Spaceflight History
• 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)
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial National Park Service
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial - The Wall

THE 1990's

• 1990s Flashback
• Before Netscape: the Forgotten Browsers (ARs Technica)
• Clinton Library
• Columbine (Jefferson County, Colorado Sheriff's Office)
• 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
• Living with Tragedy: the Colorado High School Shootings (National Public Radio)
  
• My 90's TV
• NAFTA Secretariat
• NASA: Human Spaceflight History
• Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
  
• Oklahoma City Bombing (History.com)
• Operation Desert Storm (National Security Agency)
• Panama Canal
• People History - 1990s
• Rule the 90s : Film and TV (National Geographic)
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
• Waco: the Inside Story (PBS)
• World Trade Center Bombing 1993
  No longer available from the New York Fire Department this page can now be found on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Links verified May 2, 2020