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THE 1950'S | THE 1960'S | THE 1970'S | THE 1980'S | THE 1990's
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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) NEW
- 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 NEW
- 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 NEW
- Henry Ford Museum & Greenwich Village
- History of Child Labor - Reform Movement NEW
- Lessons from Wall Street's "Panic of 1907' NEW
- Murder of Grace Brown NEW
- Panic of 1907 NEW
- Theodore Roosevelt Center NEW
- 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) NEW
- Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920
- Eyewitness to World War I
- The First World War
- First World War (Google Cultural Institute) NEW
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- The Great War PBS Retired Series on YouTube (PBS)
- History of Child Labor - Reform Movement NEW
- 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 NEW
- World War I: Trenches on the Web
THE 1920'S
- 1920's Movie History Timeline
- 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 NEW
- 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 NEW
- Roaring Twenties (1920-30.com) NEW
- 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)
- Computer History Museum
- 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) NEW
- Hindenburg Disaster (Airships.net)
- Holocaust under 1940s
- Lindbergh Kidnapping (FBI)
- New Deal (History.com)
- Slang in the Great Depression
- 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) NEW
- Cold War Museum
- Computer History Museum
- 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 NEW
- Hiroshima Peace Site
- History of the United Nations NEW
- 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) NEW
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II (Atomic Heritage Foundation) NEW
- Japanese Relocation and Internment (National Archives)
- Korean War and Its Origins (Truman Library)
- Manhattan Project (History.com) NEW
- Manhattan Project (National Park Service) NEW
- A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution (Smithsonian)
- National WWII Museum (New Orleans) NEW
- NATO 1949 (Office of the Historian) NEW
- Pearl Harbor (Have Fun with History)
- The Perilous Fight: America's World War II (PBS)
- Second World War (Google Cultural Institute) NEW
- Tuskegee Airmen (Knowitall.org)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Video Jukebox of Songs from the 40s
- Who "invented' the TV Dinner? (Library of Congress)
THE 1950'S
- Birmingham Campaign (PBS) NEW
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Brown Foundation
- Civil Rights Movement (Bill of Rights Institute) NEW
- Civil Rights Movement (PBS) NEW
- The Cold War: the Manhattan Project (U.S. Department of Energy)
- Cold War Museum
- Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Decades.com - Across the Decades 50's 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
- How McCarthyism Worked NEW
- Korean War (History.com)
- Korean War and Its Origins (Truman Library)
- Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (Montgomery Advisor)
- NASA: Human Spaceflight History
- Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress) NEW
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s to Early 60s
- Welcome to Levitown
- Whatever Happened to Polio (Smithsonian)
THE 1960'S
- Apollo Program (NASA)
- Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
- The Berlin Wall of Sound by Berliner Mauer
- Birmingham Campaign (PBS) NEW
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Chicago Blizzard of 1967 (Chicago Tribune)
- Civil Rights Movement (Bill of Rights Institute) NEW
- Civil Rights Movement (PBS) NEW
- Cold War Museum
- Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Cuban Missile Crisis (JFK Library) NEW
- Cuban Missile Crisis (National Security Archive)
- Decades.com - Across the decades 1960s NEW
- Fallout Shelters 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
- Great Chicago Storm of 1967
- Greg Knight's Patio Culture (Suburban America)
- History of the 1960s Fallout Shelter Program NEW
- 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) NEW
- 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
- The Psychedelic ‘60s: Literary tradition and Social Change ( (University of Virginia Library)
- Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s and 60s (Click Visit the 60s box on upper middle left side for 1962-1970)
- 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 Flashback
- Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
- Blizzard of 1979 (ChicagoL.org)
- Cold War Museum
- Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Decades.com - Across the Decades 1970s NEW
- Disco-Disco.com
- Equal Rights Amendment NEW
- Farming in the 1970s to Today (Wessels Living History Farm)
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- History of Earth Day NEW
- In the 70s.Com
- May Fourth Collection - Kent State University Tragedy
- My 70's TV
- NASA: Human Spaceflight History
- Pentagon Papers (History.com) NEW
- Richard Nixon Library NEW
- 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) NEW
- Chernobyl (Livescience) NEW
- Cold War Museum
- Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
- Decades.com - Across the Decades 1980s NEW
- Equal Rights Amendment NEW
- Exon Valdez (History.com) NEW
- Fall of the Iron Curtain (Google Cultural Institute)
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- History of AIDS (History.com) NEW
- In the 80s.Com
- Iran Contra Scandal
- MTV Music Television (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
- My 80's TV
- NASA: Human Spaceflight History
- Ronald Reagan Library NEW
- 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) NEW
- Clinton Library NEW
- 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 NEW
- History of NAFTA and It's Purpose (The Balance) NEW
- In the 90s.Com
- Living with Tragedy: the Colorado High School Shootings (National Public Radio)
- My 90's TV
- NAFTA Secretariat NEW
- 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 (This web page is via the Internet Archive's Wayback as the web site is no longer available from the New York Fire Department.)
Updated: December 21, 2018