20th Century decades resources
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THE 1900's | THE 1910'S | THE 1920'S | THE 1930'S | THE 1940'S
THE 1950'S | THE 1960'S | THE 1970'S | THE 1980'S | THE 1990's
Decades Resources Page (General Resources & Multimedia)
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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.

Historical note: The content of 20th Century Resources page was originally shared on my wiki Westmontwiki on Wikispaces until 3/2018 and has been upgraded, added to, and regularly updated.
Updated: February 6. 2020