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20th Century decades resources

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20th Century 1900-1999 | Research Project Tools

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  • 20th Century Games and Toys 1920s-1990s (People's History)
  • Advertisements of the 20th century
    • AD Access Duke University Libraries (Print ads from 1911-1957)
    • Adclassix.com (Vintage advertisements under a variety of categories)
    • Classic TV Commercials (Internet Archive)
    • Vintage Ad Browser (100,000 vintage ads under a wide variety of categories)
  • 20th Century Innovation Timeline - The Great Idea Finder (Courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, original source no longer available) NEW 
  • American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings (Digital Public Library of America)
  • American Cultural History: The 20th Century
    No longer available on the LSC-Kinwood site, this resource can now be found on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The content is a great summary of every decade and in the past was a reliable resource. Some links may not work, but it is something to investigate.
  • American Experience (PBS - features, films, and videos)
  • American Masters A-Z List (PBS) (American cultural artists past and present)
  • American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Authentic History Center (Artifacts and sounds of popular culture)
  • Biography Resources
    • 10 Most Influential Technologies Invented by Women (MakeUseOf)
    • Academy of Achievement
    • American Authors
    • American Masters (PBS - Outstanding cultural artists past and present)
    • American Presidency Project (U. of California at Santa Barbara)
    • Asian Pacific American Heritage NEW
    • Biography.com
    • Black Inventor Online Museum
    • Black Inventors Through American History
    • Encyclopedia of World Biography
    • Famous Black Americans of the 20th Century
    • Illinois Authors Directory
    • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    • U.S. Presidents (History.com)
    • U.S. Presidents (University of Virginia Miller Center)
    • Web Museum, Paris
    • Women's International Center Biography Index
  • Consumer Electronics (Computers. Media, Internet)
    • Before Netscape: the Forgotten Browsers
    • Brief History of Computers (Explainthatstuff)
    • Computer History Museum
    • History of Mobile Phones (U Switch)
    • History of Mobile Phones 1973-2008 (Know Your Mobile)
    • History of the Internet (Internet Society)
    • Internet Archive Software Collection
    • Multimedia: Video and Television Resources
    • National Museum of Computing NEW
    • Triumph of the Nerds (PBS)
    • Video Game History (History.com)
  • CrazyFads.com
  • Digital Comic Museum
  • Digital History
  • Ellis Island (National Park Service)
  • Eyewitness to History
  • Famous Trials by Professor Douglas O. Linder
    Site contains other resources not just the professor's summary.
    Many (but not all) individual trials of the century are posted under individual decades.
  • Fashion and Food Resources
    • 20th Century Fashion
      A good resource it is now only available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
    • 20th Century Fashion Timeline (DK Find Out!)
    • 100 years of American Food
    • Fashion History and Costume Era
    • The Food Time Line (Morris County Library, Whippany, N.J.)
    • History of Fashion (Victoria and Albert)
  • FBI History
  • Google Cultural Institute (Exhibits of artifacts, photos, manuscripts and video of cultural history from 1905-2013)
  • Historical Dictionary of American Slang
  • History Matters: the US Survey Course
  • History of Comics
  • The History Place
  • Humans in Space: History (NASA)
  • Immigration (Library of Congress)
  • Infoplease.com Year by Year
  • Interesting Facts about Ellis Island (Family Search) NEW
  • Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court
  • Library of Congress Digital Collections
  • Life Magazine (Time-Life Historic Moments)
  • NAACP (History.com)
  • NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
  • National Archives Research
  • Olympic Games
  • People History (News, events, prices and popular culture 1920 to today)
  • People's Century 1900-1999 (PBS)
  • Picturing the Century ( National Archives and Records Administration)
  • Prices and Wages by Decades
  • Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
  • Science and Technology Resources
    • History of Science and Technology (Franklin Institute)
    • History of Vaccines (College of Physicians - Philadelphia)
    • Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
    • Sweetsearch History
  • UShistory.org
MULTIMEDIA: Audio/Music/Radio Resources
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  • 78 RPM Records Digitized (Internet Archive) NEW
  • 100 Years of Rock Visualized
  • American Popular Music
    No longer available on the LSC-Kinwood site, this resource can now be found on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The content is a great summary of every decade and in the past was a reliable resource. Some links may not work, but it is something to investigate.
    American Popular Music 1900-1950
    American Popular Music from 1950-2000
  • American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank ​
  • Citizen D.J.
    Make music using the free-to-use audio and video resources from the Library of Congress.
  • Digital History: Music
  • Golden Age of Radio (Digital Public Library of America)
  • Greatest Speeches of the 20th Century (Archive.org)
  • History of the Radio Industry to 1940 
  • Jazz (Ken Burns Video - PBS)
  • Library of Congress National Jukebox NEW
  • Music Playlist Sites (Decades Project Tools)
  • Music Smasher
    (Find any song on radio, Spotify, Grooveshark, Soundcloud, YouTube, Mog and/or Bandcamp)
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  • Musicals 101 (The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film)
  • National Jukebox (Historical recordings from the Library of Congress)
  • Nostalgia Machine (Get your childhood jam 1951-2015)
  • Old Time Radio Shows
  • Super Cartoons
  • Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century ( American Rhetoric)
  • Paul's Video Jukebox (Songs from the 40s to 80s)
  • Voices of the 20th century (Eyewitness to History)
MULTIMEDIA: Image Resources
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  • American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Biography Channel Photo Gallery
  • Digital Public Library of America
  • Getty Images
  • In Focus: The Evolution of the Personal Camera (Digital Public Library of America)
  • Library of Congress Historic Newspapers and Photos on Flickr
  • Life Photo Collection
  • Photos for Class (Storyboard That)
MULTIMEDIA: Video and Television Resources
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  • American Experience On-Line VIdeos (PBS)
  • American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Biography Channel Videos
  • CBC Digital Archives (Canadian Broadcasting Centre)
    On the left side click on Archives Timeline to select historical events
  • Citizen D.J.
    Make music using the free-to-use audio and video resources from the Library of Congress.
  • Classic TV Database
  • Crazy About TV (Show information by decade or genre from 1940's through 2013)
  • ​Decades.com: Through the Decades
  • Film History by Decade (Filmsite.org)
  • History Channel
    • History by Topic
    • Videos by Topic
  • Internet Archive (Searching required - not arranged chronologically)
  • Museum of Broadcast Television (Search the Archive!!!!)
  • My 70's TV
  • My 80's TV
  • My 90's TV
  • Paul's Video Jukebox (Songs from the 40s to 80s)
  • Television: the First 75 Years (Television set history)
  • TV Party
  • We Didn't Start the Fire Official Billy Joel Video (YouTube)
  • We Didn't Start the Fire Flash Video by Ye Li (Wayback Machine)

Updated December 30, 2022

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