20th Century decades resources
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20th Century 1900-1999 | Research Project Tools
20th Century 1900-1999 | Research Project Tools
GENERAL
- 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)
- Bad Fads Museum
- 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)
- American Presidents: Life Portraits (C-SPAN)
- 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)
- 20th Century Fashion
- 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
Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied!
Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied!
- 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) - Music Timeline (Google Research)
- 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
Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied!
Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied!
- 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 Photostream on Flickr
- Life Photo Collection
- Photos for Class (Storyboard That)
MULTIMEDIA: Video and Television Resources
Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied!
Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied!
- 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
- 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 April 28, 2022