20th Century decades resources
1900's-1990's

 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
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Throughout my list of 20th-century resources, you’ll often find links to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Some older websites, though still accessible, may be blocked by browsers or labeled as insecure due to their outdated HTTP protocols. This doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the content itself. Many sites are no longer updated or have disappeared, yet still contain valuable historical information. As of 2025, with numerous government websites becoming increasingly unavailable, I've included links to archived captures made before January 20, 2025.  Thank you Internet Archive for preserving our important resources.

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
• Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920
• Escape Artist Harry Houdini
• Frank Lloyd Wright - Ken Burns - PBS
• Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
• General Resources on 20th Century Decades Page
• Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (City of San Francisco Virtual Museum)
  The site is still http. To save historical content find it on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• 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)
  ​(If unavailable view on the Internet Archives)
• 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) ​
• Child Labor in America, 1908-1912 Photographs by Lewis W. Hine
• Eastland Disaster
• 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)
• 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
    The site is still http. To save historical content find it on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
  • 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 site is still http. To save historical content find it on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

THE 1920'S

• 1920s Clothing: Fashions from 1920-1929 (Family Search)
• 1920s in History (1920-30.com)
  The site is still http. To save historical content find it on Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• 1920's Movie History Timeline
  The site is still http. To save historical content find it on Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
• Dances of the Jazz Age
• Black Sox Trial (1921) (Famous Trials)
• Eyewitness to History: 20th century
  The site is still http. To save historical content find it on Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• Farming in the 1920's (Wessels Living History Farm)
• FBI History Famous Cases & Criminals
  (If it becomes unavailable view on the Internet Archive)
• 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)
  The site is still http. To save historical content find it on Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• 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 (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
• To save historical content saved to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• 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)
• 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)
  (If becomes unavailable view on the Internet Archve)
  
• 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
• 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)
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust - Ken Burns on PBS
  • U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum​
• Japanese Internment
  • Incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II (Atomic Heritage Foundation)
  • Japanese Relocation and Internment  (National Archives)
    (If becomes unavailable view on the Internet Archive)
  • A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution (Smithsonian)
    Internet Archive version made in 2020 at the request of the Smithsonian.
  • Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps (Digital Public Library of America)
• Korean War and Its Origins (Truman Library)
• Manhattan Project
  • Manhattan Project -Atomic Heritage Foundation
  • Manhattan Project  -Energy.gov
    If site becomes unavailable view on the Internet Archive.
  • Manhattan Project - History.com
  • Manhattan Project - National Park Service
    If site becomes unavailable or extensively revised view on the Internet Archive.
  • Manhattan Project (Electronic Field Trip) - National WWII Museum
• 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
  • American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings (Digital Public Library of America)
  • 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
    The site is still http. To save historical content find it on the Internet Archive.
  • Hiroshima Peace Site
  • National WWII Museum (New Orleans)
  • Perilous Fight: America's World War II (PBS)
  • Second World War (Google Cultural Institute)
  • Tuskegee Airmen (Knowitall.org)
  • The War (Ken Burns - PBS)
  • 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)
  (If site becomes unavailable or extensively revised view on the Internet Archive)
• Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page
• 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
• History of Television (Video)
• How McCarthyism Worked
• Korean War
  • Korean War (History.com)
    
  • Korean War and Its Origins (Truman Library)
  • Korean War Veterans Memorial (National Park Service)
• 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)
  (If site becomes unavailable or extensively revised, view on the Internet Archive)
• MyRetro TVs - 50s
• Paul's Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s to Early 60s
• Polio
  • Dr. Jonas Salk Announces Polio Vaccine (History.com)
  • History of Polio: Outbreaks and Timeline (Mayo Clinic)
  • History of Vaccines: Polio (History.com)
  • Whatever Happened to Polio (Smithsonian)
    ​Site no longer available on the web but archived on the Internet Archive.
• Rosenberg Trial (1951) (Famous Trials)
• Rockabilly Quotes and Retro Phrases of the 1950's 
• Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress)
  If site becomes unavailable view on the Internet Archive.
• Teen Dances of the 1950s
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)​

THE 1960'S

• 1960s Flashback
  The site is still http. To save historical content find it on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• 69 Woodstock Photos That Will Take You Back to the 1960's Most Iconic Music Festival 
• Apollo Program
  • 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)
• The Berlin Wall of Sound by Berliner Mauer​
• Chicago Blizzard of 1967 (Chicago Tribune)
  (Saved version on the Internet Archive)
• Chicago Blizzard: The Great Chicago Snow of 1967
  Original site is no longer available. Saved to the Internet Archive
• "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) 
• 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
  No longer available on the original site it was saved to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• 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
• MyRetro TVs - 60s​​
• 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
  The site is still http. To save historical content find it on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
• Suburbanization of America: The Rise of the Patio Culture (Suburban America)
  This site is archived on the Internet Archive.
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
• Vietnam War
  • Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
  • Short Guide to the Vietnam War (Thought.co)
  • Vietnam War (History.com)
  • ​Vietnam War (YouTube) Ken Burns Video
• Voices of Protest: Civil Rights Movement (Bill of Rights Institute)
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Civil Rights Sites (National Park Service)
  (If becomes unavailable or extensively revised, view on the Internet Archive)
• When the Wall Went Up: Berlin 1961 (Radio Free Europe)

THE 1970'S

• 1970s Disco Dances
• 1970s Flashback
  The site is still http and has been saved on the Internet Archive.
• Blizzard of 1979 (Chicago-l.org)
  ​The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
• Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page 
• Disco-Disco.com
  The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
• Disco Lifestyle
• Equal Rights Amendment
  • Equal Rights Amendment
  • Equal Rights Amendment   (U.S. History)
  • Women's Rights (National Archives)
    If site becomes unavailable, view on the Internet Archive.
• 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
  The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
• May Fourth Collection - Kent State University Tragedy
• MyRetro TVs - 70s
• Patty Hearst Trial (1976) (Famous Trials) 
• Paul's Video Jukebox - 1970s
• Pentagon Papers
  • Pentagon Papers (History.com)
  • Pentagon Papers (National Archives)
    If the site becomes unavailable view on the Internet Archive.
  • Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg) Trial (1973) (Famous Trials)
• Richard Nixon Library
• Seventies Preservation Society
• Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
  The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
• Star Wars and 1977 (Time)
• Three Mile Island (Smithsonian)
• Timeline of the 1970s (Britannica)
• U.S. Bicentennial 1976 (Inclusive Historian's Handbook)
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
• Vietnam War
  • Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
  • Short Guide to the Vietnam War (Thought.co)
  • ​Vietnam War (History.com)
  • ​Vietnam War (YouTube) Ken Burns Video
• Watergate Files (Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum)
• Watergate.info
• What Was It Really Like to See Star Wars In 1977 (Looper)

THE 1980'S

• 1980 Olympics
  • 1980 Summer Olympics facts for kids (Kiddle)
  • Miracle on Ice: When the US Olympic Hockey Team Stunned the World (History.com)
  • President Carter announces Olympic boycott (History.com)
• 1980s Flashback
  The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
• AT&T Monopoly & Breakup of the Bell System (History Factory)
• The Berlin Wall of Sound by Berliner Mauer
• Chernobyl (Livescience)
  
• Consumer Electronics (Computers, Internet & Media) on 20th Century Decades Page 
• 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
  The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
• Iran-Contra Affair
  • The 1980s: Iran-Contra Affair (Christopher Newport University LibGuides)
    
  • Iran Contra Affair
    The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
    
  • Iran Contra Scandal (PBS)
    
  • Understanding the Iran Contra Scandal
    
• MTV (Music Television)
  The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
• Mount St. Helens - 1980 Cataclysmic Eruption
• Mount St. Helens - Ways the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption Changed Our World
• My 80's TV
  ​Paul's Video Jukebox - 1980s
• Ronald Reagan Library
• Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
• The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
• Space Shuttle
  • Challenger: Shuttle Disaster (Space.com) 
  • Shuttle Mission Archive (NASA)
  • When a national disaster unfolded live in 1986 (CNN)
    
• Timeline of the 1980s (Britannica)
  
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)

THE 1990's

• 30 Years Ago: Hubble Launched to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (NASA)
• 1990s Flashback
  The site is still http so saved to the Internet Archive.
  
• Before Netscape: the Forgotten Browsers (ARs Technica)
• Brady Bill Signed Into Law (History.com)
• Clinton Impeachment Trial (1999) (Famous Trials)
• Clinton Library
• Columbine  
• 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
  
• Korean War Veterans Memorial (National Park Service)
  
• My 90's TV
  
• Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
• Oklahoma City Bombing (History.com)
• Oklahoma City Bombing Trial (1997) (Famous Trials)
• Old Web Today
• Operation Desert Storm (National Security Agency)
• Panama Canal​
• Timeline of the 1990s (Britannica)
• U.S. Presidents (Miller Center)
• Waco: the Inside Story (PBS)​
• What Really Happened at Columbine (60 Minutes CBS)
• World Trade Center Bombing 1993
  No longer available from the New York Fire Department find it on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

Updated April 14, 2025