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THE 1950'S | THE 1960'S | THE 1970'S | THE 1980'S | THE 1990's
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THE 1950'S | THE 1960'S | THE 1970'S | THE 1980'S | THE 1990's
Decades Resources Page (General Resources & Multimedia)
20th Century Decades LiveBinder | Research Project Tools
THE 1900's
- 1900s Fashion: Clothing in the Edwardian Era (Family Search)
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
- Ash Can School
- 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)
- Woman's Rights Movement 1848-1917 (U.S. House of Representatives)
- Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company
- Wright Brothers National Memorial National Park Service
THE 1910'S
- 1910s Fashion: Clothing Worn 1910-1919 (Family Search)
- 1919 World Series - Chicago Black Sox (Chicago Historical Society)
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
- Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 (Digital Public Library of America)
- Chicago Stories: The Eastland Disaster (PBS) 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: Rare Tribune Photos
- Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920
- Epidemic of 1918
- 1918-19 Spanish Influenza Pandemic and Vaccine Development (History of Vaccines)
- America During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Digital Public Library of America)
- The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (National Archives)
- Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 (Family Search)
- History of Child Labor - Reform Movement
- Panama Canal
- Triangle Factory Fire
- Triangle Fire Trial: 1911 (Famous Trials) NEW
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (History Channel)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Woman's Rights Movement 1848-1917 (U.S. House of Representatives)
- Woodrow Wilson Library
- World War I
- Echoes of the Great War Online Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- Eyewitness to World War I
- First World War (Google Cultural Institute)
- Patriotic Labor: America During World War I (Digital Public Library of America)
- PBS Great War Website on YouTube
- Remembering the Harlem Hellfighters of World War I (FamilySearch)
- Uses of Military Dogs in World War I (FamilySearch)
- World War I (Epic TV 7 video series)
- WW1 Timeline, Records and Pictures (FamilySearch)
- World War I: Trenches on the Web
THE 1920'S
- 1920s Clothing: Fashions from 1920-1929 (Family Search)
- 1920's Movie History Timeline
- 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
- Dances of the Jazz Age
- Black Sox Trial (1921) (Famous Trials)
- 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 Famous Cases & Criminals
- Flappers (ushistory.org)
- Flappers (History.com)
- General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
- Immigration Act of 1924 (FamilySearch)
- Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States (Digital Public Library of America)
- 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) (Thanks J.)
- Radio and Music in the 1920s United States (Family Search)
- Roaring Twenties (1920-30.com)
- Roaring Twenties (History.com)
- Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) (Famous Trials)
- Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925) (Famous Trials)
- Seven Inventions from the 1920s We Still Use (Family Search)
- Spiffy Slang Words and Phrases from the 1920s (Family Search)
- Temperance and Prohibition (Ohio State University)
- U.S. Immigration in the 1920s (Family Search)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- What Was It Like 100 years ago - 1920? (FamilySearch)
THE 1930'S
- 1930s Fashion: Women's, Men's and Children's Clothing, 1930-1939(Family Search)
- 1930s Music on Last.FM
- Al Capone Trial (1931) (Famous Trials)
- 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)
- 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)
- Show Must Go On: American Theater During the Depression (Digital Public Library of America)
- TVA: From the New Deal to a New Century (Tennessee Valley Authority)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
THE 1940'S
- 1940s Fashion: Women's and Men's Clothing Worn, 1940-1950 (Family Search)
- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Baby Boomer Generation (Family Search)
- 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
- History of the United Nations
- Holocaust
- Anne Frank: Diary (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
- Korean War and Its Origins (Truman Library)
- Manhattan Project
- Manhattan Project -Atomic Heritage Foundation
- Manhattan Project -Energy.gov
- Manhattan Project - History.com
- Manhattan Project - National Park Service
- Manhattan Project (Electronic Field Trip) - Nataional WWII Museum NEW
- A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution (Smithsonian)
- NATO 1949 (Office of the Historian)
- Paul's Video Jukebox of Songs from the 40s
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Who "invented' the TV Dinner? (Library of Congress)
- World War II
- D-Day Invasion: What Happened and Why It Is Important (Family Search)
- Dr. Seuss Goes to War (a catalog of political cartoons by Dr. Seuss)
- Eyewitness to World War Two
- Incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II (Atomic Heritage Foundation)
- Japanese Relocation and Internment (National Archives)
- National WWII Museum (New Orleans)
- Perilous Fight: America's World War II (PBS)
- Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps (Digital Public Library of America)
- Second World War (Google Cultural Institute)
- Tuskegee Airmen (Knowitall.org)
- World War II Facts,Turning Points, Battles and More (Family Search)
THE 1950'S
- 17 Slang Terms from the 1950s
- The 1950s (History Channel)
- 1950s Fashions: Mid-Century Clothing Styles (Family Search)
- 1950s Teenager
- Baby Boomer Generation (Family Search)
- Brown Foundation
- Brown V Topeka Board of Ed. (1951) (Famous Trials)
- Civil Rights in America (NPR) NEW
- 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)
- Emmett Till Murder (1955) (Famous Trials)
- 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
- How McCarthyism Worked
- Korean War (History.com)
- Korean War and Its Origins (Truman Library)
- Levittown: The Imperfect Rise of the American Suburbs (US History Scene)
- Life with Teenagers in the 1950s (Time)
- Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (History Channel)
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (National Park Service)
- Paul's Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s to Early 60s
- Rosenberg Trial (1951) (Famous Trials)
- Rockabilly Quotes and Retro Phrases of the 1950's
- Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress)
- Teen Dances of the 1950s
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Whatever Happened to Polio (Smithsonian)
THE 1960'S
- 1960s Flashback
- 69 Woodstock Photos That Will Take You Back to the 1960's Most Iconic Music Festival NEW
- Apollo Program (NASA)
- Apollo Program Part 1: Tragedy to Triumph (Epic History TV)
- Apollo Program Part 2: One Giant Leap (Epic History TV)
- Baby Boomer Generation (Family Search)
- Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
- The Berlin Wall of Sound by Berliner Mauer
- Chicago Blizzard of 1967 (Chicago Tribune)
- "The Chicago Eight" (or "Chicago Seven") Trial (1969 - 1970) (Famous Trials)
- Civil Rights Movement - Selection of PBS Resources
- 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) - 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 - Selection of PBS resources
- 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)
- Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
- Suburbanization of America: The Rise of the Patio Culture (Suburban America)
- U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
- Vietnam War (History.com)
- Voices of Protest: Civil Rights Movement (Bill of Rights Institute) NEW
- 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
- 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)
- Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg) Trial (1973) (Famous Trials)
- 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 MauerChallenger: 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
- 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)
- What Really Happened at Columbine (60 Minutes CBS)
- World Trade Center Bombing 1993
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Updated March 12, 2023