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America at a Crossroads - PBS explores the role of the United States in the world, with a series of interactive timelines, video diaries from people affected by recent events, and a discussion guide.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/
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American Cultural History:
The Twentieth Century - Kingwood College Library
offers this entertaining site, which includes a page of information about
art and architecture, literature, education, fads, and personalities of each
decade in the century.
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html
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American President: An Online Reference Resource - The Miller Center at the University of Virginia presents detailed information on all the presidents of the era, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush.
http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/
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America Votes 2004 - CNN's coverage of the 2004 election is archived here.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/
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America’s
War Against Terrorism - The University of Michigan provides
a huge set of links on the September 11, 2001, attacks and the U.S. response.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
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The Clinton
Years - ABC and PBS produced this 2001 look at the Clinton administration.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/
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CNN Interactive: Cold War -
Developed to support the 1998 CNN series on the Cold War, this site presents
a chronology, primary sources, profiles of important
figures in the Cold War, and a wealth of additional information.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
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Commission on Presidential Debates -
Transcripts of the presidential debates from 1960-2004, plus additional information on the more recent debates.
http://www.debates.org/
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Documents from the Women’s
Liberation Movement - Duke University presents
this collection, which contains a wide array of materials on the women's
movement that originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
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Election Collection
2000 - An archive of digital information on the 2000 presidential
election. Commissioned by the Library of Congress.
http://web.archive.org/collections/e2k.html
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Election
2000 - NPR’s coverage of the controversial presidential
election.
http://www.npr.org/news/national/election2000/index.html
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The Great
Communicator - Transcripts of approximately 20 of President Ronald
Reagan's speeches.
http://www.presidentreagan.info/speeches/index.cfm
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The
Gulf War - Oral history interviews, a report on Gulf War Syndrome,
journalists' comments,
a timeline, and more. Based on the PBS Frontline series.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/index.html
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History: United Farm Workers -
A history of the effort to unionize farm workers. From the United Farm Workers.
http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=research&inc=research_history.html
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Hurricane Digital Memory Bank – The University of New Orleans and Center for New Media at George Mason University, along with other partners, are creating this archive about Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The archive includes numerous photo collections of the storm’s effects, newspaper coverage from the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise, and recollections of people who experienced the storms.
http://www.hurricanearchive.org/
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Jimmy Carter Library – A biography of the former president, background information and documents on key events of his presidency (e.g., the Iran hostage crisis, the Camp David Accords), and a lesson plan on the Panama Canel Treaties are among the resources at this site.
http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/
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Legal Information Institute -
Information about the Supreme Court and its decisions. Cases included date from 1990.
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
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Media History Timeline - A year-by-year chronology of events in the media, which highlights changes in technology and pop culture. From the University of Minnesota.
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/
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My Piece
of History - An interesting lesson in which students learn to
gather and analyze historical data by looking at artifacts from the recent
past—found
in their own homes!
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=325
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9-11 Commission Report – The complete report of the bipartisan commission that investigated the events surrounding the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/
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No Place for a Woman – American Radioworks presents an hour-long documentary about women breaking into previously male-dominated occupations in the 1970s, specifically in the iron mines of northern Minnesota. Various supplementary materials are also provided.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/ironrange/
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Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia - Information on selected Supreme Court cases from the past 35 years, plus digitized recordings of the Court's proceedings.
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
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Petroleum Chronology of Events, 1970-2000 – The U.S. Department of Energy looks at events related to production and use of petroleum products over the last 30 years of the 20th century.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/chronology/petroleumchronology2000.htm
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Powering a Generation
of Change - This site from the Smithsonian documents
the restructuring of the power industry in the last quarter of the 20th century,
including information on the energy crises of the 1970s and deregulation.
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/powering/
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Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century - This site from the University of Texas provides an interactive timeline plus descriptions of significant events in each president’s term of office.
http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/
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The Reagan Years -
CNN looks at President Reagan's political rise
and his years in the White House. Features interviews with top aides.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/reagan.years/
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Investigate the history of rock and roll through
exhibits on such influential musicians as John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix.
http://www.rockhall.com/
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The Search
for Peace - The U.S. Embassy in Israel provides primary sources
related to the U.S. role in working for peace in the Middle East, beginning
with the Camp David Accords in 1978.
http://usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/peace/peace1.htm
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Sonic Memorial Project – An audio archive of the World Trade Center’s history, up to and including its destruction on September 11. Lesson plans help students consider such issues as how memory and history are related, the changing meaning of memorials, how personal values influence the ways in which individuals view historic events. From the producers of NPR’s Lost and Found Sound series.
http://www.sonicmemorial.org/sonic/public/index.html
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The Ten O'Clock News - News clips dating from 1974 to 1991, focusing on news related to Boston's African-American community.
http://main.wgbh.org/ton/
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Terrorism in Historical Perspective – The Digital History website presents this background essay to provide historical context for considering terrorism in the contemporary world.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/terrorism.cfm
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Thurgood Marshall Law Library: Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights – Primary source materials on the work of this federal commission.
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp
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The U.S. Bureau of the Census - Data from recent censuses of population, housing,
and the U.S. economy.
http://www.census.gov/
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Washington Post Archives: Clinton Accused - An archive of the Post's
coverage of President Bill Clinton's impeachment and subsequent acquittal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/clinton.htm
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Watergate - Background information and primary sources. Maintained by Australian
educator Malcolm Farnsworth.
http://www.watergate.info/
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Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers - Notes, memos, and drafts from the files of the two reporters who investigated Watergate for the Washington Post.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/woodstein/
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WTO Seattle Collection - Documents about the 1999 protests of the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/wtoweb/index.html
