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Alger Hiss Story: Search
for the Truth - A detailed look at the Hiss case
from NYU historian Jeff Kisseloff.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/home.html
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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 Experience: Vietnam
Online - This PBS site presents a useful timeline
plus essays and background information.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
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Brown at 50 - A detailed curriculum unit on the "history, meaning, and legacy" of the Brown decisions. From the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, Illinois Humanities Council, and Chicago Historical Society.
http://www.crfc.org/brown50.html
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CNN Interactive: Cold War - Timelines, profiles of important figures, essays, and more at this rich site on the Cold War.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
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The Cold War: A Brief History – The Atomic Archive presents this look at the Cold War.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/index.shtml
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Cold
War International History Project - This project of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars makes available primary sources from both
sides in the Cold War.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.intro
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Commission on Presidential Debates - Transcripts of the presidential debates from 1960-2004.
http://www.debates.org/
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Creating the
Interstate System - A history of the establishment of the interstate
highway system. From the government journal Public Roads.
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/summer96/p96su10.htm
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Cuban Missile
Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary - Primary source documents and historians' analysis on the Cuban Missile Crisis, from the National Security Archive at George Mason University.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
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EASE History - Study history by examining presidential campaign ads from 1952 to 2004.
http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html
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Foreign Relations of the United States – The U.S. State Department provides numerous primary sources on foreign relations for every administration from Truman through Ford.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/
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Free Speech Movement Digital
Archive - The University of California-Berkeley, site of the 1964-65 student protests known as the Free Speech Movement, provides a chronology of and documents from that movement.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/
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History Now: The Civil Rights Movement – A special issue of the journal History Now, with articles on the civil rights movement, including an interactive jukebox with music of the movement. Classroom lessons are also provided.
http://www.historynow.org/06_2006/index.html
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History and Politics Out Loud – Audio materials from the 1960s and 1970s, including extensive materials on the Cuban Missile Crisis and Watergate.
http://www.hpol.org/
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - Provides a biography, transcripts of selected speeches,
letters and telegrams from civil rights leaders to Kennedy, and other resources
valuable to teachers and students.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
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Korean War: Remembering
Our History - This Department of Defense site
presents numerous fact sheets, soldiers' recollections, teaching
materials, and more.
http://www.korea50.mil/history/index.shtml
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Landmark Cases - Teaching materials on a number of landmark Supreme Court cases from the postwar years, including two important cases involving rights of the accused (Miranda and Gideon). From Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society.
http://www.landmarkcases.org/
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LBJ for Kids - This page from the Johnson Presidential Library presents speeches, photos, and numerous timelines. For example, one timeline juxtaposes events in 20th-century presidencies with inventions.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/main.htm
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Levittown: Documents
of an Ideal American Suburb - A fascinating look at the
iconic suburbs of the 1950s, from art historian Peter Bacon Hales of the University
of Illinois-Chicago.
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html
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The
Marshall Plan - The George C. Marshall Foundation describes the Secretary
of State's plan to rebuild Europe following World War II.
http://www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall_plan_information.html
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - The Seattle Times presents an excellent collection
of essays, sound clips, and photographs, as well as reflections from people
who knew the civil rights leader.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
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The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - The papers of Dr. King along
with a biography, a timeline, articles about King, and links. From Stanford
University.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
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NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis - Background and primary source documents
on the crisis from the perspective of the National Security Agency.
http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00033.cfm
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Paint by Number - The
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
looks at the 1950s craze known as "paint by number," placing
the fad in historical context. The reminiscences posted by viewers provide
more
insights into the decade.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/paint/
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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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Rutgers Oral History Archives - Transcripts of interviews with people who served in the military during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/
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Segregation Showdown at Little Rock - In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the integration of Little Rock’s Central High, NPR provides this series of in-depth stories on the event.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14158264
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Telegram
from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S Truman - A lesson plan on executive-legislative relations and national security, focusing on McCarthy's accusations regarding Communists in the State Department.
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/mccarthy-telegram/index.html
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Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal - This Library of Congress sites provices the proceedings of the Nuremberg trials of leaders of Nazi Germany.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/NT_major-war-criminals.html
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Truman Presidential Museum and
Library - Primary source documents, biographies,
and materials for students and teachers are available here, including a special
section on the Korean War.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
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Voices of the Colorado
Plateau - Oral histories with 24 residents of the intermountain West; topics covered include education, tourism, timber, horses, and the environment.
http://archive.li.suu.edu/voices/voices.html
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The Vietnam Center – More than 400,000 pages of scanned sources
can be searched from this site. Also available are numerous oral history
interviews.
From Texas Tech University.
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter/
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The Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975 – Vassar presents primary source documents and historic analysis on the Vietnam War.
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/
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We Shall
Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement - Background
information on the civil rights movement plus photographs of important events
and more than 40 significant historical sites. From the National Park Service.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/index.htm
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What Ever Happened to Polio?
- Background information on the campaign to develop a vaccine to
prevent polio. From the Smithsonian.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/
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White House Tapes: The President Calling – American RadioWorks uses tape recordings of presidential phone calls from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations to examine “how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history.”
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/index.html
