20th Century decades resources

Local Resources | Decades Livebinder | General Sources
Multimedia: Audio/Music/Radio | Multimedia: Image | Multimedia: Video and Television

20th Century 1900-1999
Decades Project Tools (WJH)

LOCAL RESOURCES

• SWAN Libraries (77 west and south suburb collections)
• Westmont Public Library Online

20TH CENTURY DECADES LIVEBINDER
Decades Binder links to all of the sites below under one browser tab

GENERAL

• 20th Century Games and Toys 1920s-1990s (People's History) NEW
• 20th Century Innovation Timeline (Great Idea Finder) NEW
• 88 Hilarious Slang Terms NEW
• 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)
• American Architecture of the 20th Century NEW
• American Experience (PBS - features, films, and videos)
• American Masters A-Z List (PBS) (American cultural artists past and present)
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara)
• Authentic History Center (Artifacts and sounds of popular culture)
• Bad Fads Museum

• Biography Resources
  • Academy of Achievement
  • African Americans in the Sciences
  • 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)
    
  • Artists.org
  • Biography.com
    
  • Distinguished Women of Past and Present
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography
    
  • Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biography
  • Illinois Authors Directory
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  • Sweet Search: Biographies
  • 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) NEW
  • Before Netscape: the Forgotten Browsers
  • Brief History of Computers (Explainthatstuff) NEW
  • Computer History Museum
  • History of Computers (History-Computers.com) NEW
  • History of Mobile Phones (U Switch) NEW
  • History of Mobile Phones 1973-2008 (Know Your Mobile)
  • History of the Internet (Internet Society)
  • Multimedia: Video and Television Resources
  • Oldweb Today
  • Triumph of the Nerds (PBS)
  • Video Game History (History.com) NEW
    
• CrazyFads.com
• Digital Comic Museum
• Digital History
• Eyewitness to History

• Fashion and Food Resources
  • 20th Century Fashion Timeline (DK Find Out!) NEW
  • 100 years of American Food NEW
  • Fashion History and Costume Eras
  • Fashion Trends through the Decades NEW
  • The Food Time Line (Morris County Library, Whippany, N.J.)
  • History of Fashion (Victoria and Albert) NEW
  • Soulmates: The Century in Shoes
  • What Americans Use to Eat (Priceonomics) NEW
• FBI History
• Google Cultural Institute (Exhibits of artifacts, photos, manuscripts and video of cultural history from 1905-2013)
• Great Idea Finder Innovation History (Inventor and invention history)
• Historical Dictionary of American Slang NEW
• History Animated (Military history animated through maps)
• History Matters: the US Survey Course
• History of Comics
• The History Place
• Immigration (Library of Congress)
• Infoplease.com Year by Year
• Life Magazine (Time-Life Historic Moments)
• NAACP (History.com) NEW
• NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom NEW
• National Archives Research
• Olympic Games NEW
• 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 NEW
• Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
• Science and Technology Resources
  • History of Science and Technology (Franklin Institute) NEW
  • History of Vaccines (College of Physicians - Philadelphia) NEW
  • Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
  • Sweet Search: Social Studies (Using the Web and Technology in the Social Studies Class)
• Vintage Toys 1920s-1990s NEW
• TimeSearch History
• UShistory.org

MULTIMEDIA: Audio/Music/Radio Resources
Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied!

• 100 Years of Rock Visualized
• American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank ​
• Digital History: Music
• Free Oldies Music Jukebox (Music from 1950-1989)
• Greatest Speeches of the 20th Century (Archive.org)
• History of the Radio Industry to 1940  NEW
• Jazz (Ken Burns Video - PBS) NEW
• Jazz in America 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
• Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century ( American Rhetoric)
• Paul's Video Jukebox (Songs from the 50s to Early 60)
  • Songs from the 40s
  • Music Video from the 60s
• Voices of the 20th century (Eyewitness to History)

MULTIMEDIA: Image Resources
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 NEW
• Getty Images
• Library of Congress Photostream on Flickr
• Life Photo Collection NEW
• Photos for Class (Storyboard That) NEW
• Picsearch

MULTIMEDIA: Video and Television Resources
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
• Classic TV Database
• Crazy About TV (Show information by decade or genre from 1940's through 2013)
• ​Decades.com: Through the Decades NEW
• Entertainment Magazine Free Public Domain Movies
• Film History by Decade (Filmsite.org)
• Have Fun With History
• History Channel
  • History by Topic
  • Videos by Topic
• Internet Archive (Searching required - not arranged chronologically)
• Music Videos - Songs from the 50s to Early 60s
  • Music Videos from the 40s
  • Music Videos from the 60s
• My 70's TV | My 80's TV | My 90's TV
• Open Video Project
• Television: the First 75 Years (Television set history)
• TV Party
• We Didn't Start the Fire Flash Movie

Updated August 31, 2018