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Overview Sites
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century -- Kingwood College Library
American History Timeline from the Smithsonian
American Popular Culture -- Site from WSU
American Memory from the Library of Congress
CNN The Twentieth Century
Colonial America Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
Decades: A Study of the Twentieth Century
These pages have busy backgrounds and can be hard to read, but the organization is good and so are the links.
Eyewitness: The Twentieth Century
Google Directory: United States History
Multnomah County Library : American History
Links to all kinds of American History sites
History Beat: Twentieth Century
King County Library (In Seattle) United States History
Links to a variety of American History sites
Biographies on the Web
Links to sites on people -- not just AmericansNational Archives See WWII posters, When Elvis Met Nixon, and more. Click on the Online Exhibit Hall to start your investigation. National Archives 100 Years of History in Photographs "Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island . . . the Wright Brothers fly . . . building the Empire State Building . . . a Depression-era soup line . . . Omaha Beach . . . the mushroom cloud . . . Lyndon Johnson taking the Presidential oath . . . a young marine in Da Nang . . . footprints on the Moon . . . war in the Persian Gulf . . " NBC Time and Again Video Clips these may not work on the library computers... People's Century from PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/ The Nineteen Hundreds http://members.tripod.com/archer2000/
News, headlines, audio clips, organized by decade.
Stories of the Century: List of events
http://www.newseum.org/century/
Timeline from Nation Master
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Timeline-of-United-States-history
Wars and Conflicts of the United States Navy -- Government Page: Scroll down for chronological listings. http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/index.html
Your Place in Time: Twentieth Century America
from the Henry Ford Museum
Trail of Tears -- 1838+
California Gold Rush 1840's -- PBS
California Gold Rush 1840's -- San Francisco Museum
Klondike (Alaskan) Goldrush (Late 1800's) o This link takes you to the Washington State Historical Society home page. From there search 'klondike"
1898 Spanish American War -- Battle of Manila Bay http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq84-1.htm
1898 Spanish American War Documents http://www.history.navy.mil/docs/spanam/spanam.htm1903 The Wright Brothers' Flight
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1907 Bill Haywood Trial
1912 The Titanic
1912 Scott's Trip to the Antarctic http://www.south-pole.com/p0000089.htm
1913 First Moving Assemblyline and
PBS Site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/ontheline/
1914 Panama Canal
1915 Sinking of the Lusitania
1919 the 19th Amendment --
Women's Suffrage Movement http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
1921 Sacco and Vanzetti
1921 The Black Sox Trial
1924 Leopold and Leob
1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial
1925-1926 The Sweet Trials
1927 Lindberg Flies the Atlantic http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp
1922 King Tut's Tomb from National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/
1930+ Hoover Dam http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hoover/
1933+ Tennessee Valley Authority http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/history.htm
1931 - 1937 Scottsboro Boys
Scottsboro Boys -- from PBS
1937 Hindenburg Disaster http://www.nlhs.com/hindenburg.htm
Dustbowl Era 1930's
Voices From the Dustbowl
1941 Penicillin
Zoot Suit Riots 1942 ? + http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/
The Aerodrome: Aces and Aircraft of WWI http://www.theaerodrome.com/index.html
Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/alic/reference_desk/military_resources/japanese_internment
Japanese Americans and WWII http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
The Drop Zone Virtual Museum
The History Place Index http://www.historyplace.com/index.html.
Midway Battle of Midway, 4-7 June 1942 --Overview and Special Image Selection http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm
This links to several pages of information on the Battle of Midway. Lots of good photos and information in a well organized site.
Military History, Museum & Quartermaster Unit Links http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/links.html
Naval Aviation in WWI http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/ww1av.htm
Normandy Invastion WWII http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq109-1.htm
Pearl Harbor http://teacher.scholastic.com/pearl/index.htm
Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans during World War I
http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/369th.html
Lesson plan includes 7 photographs of WWI.
Theodore Roosevelt His Life and Times in Film http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/
What did you do in the war, Grandma?
World War I: Trenches on the Web http://www.worldwar1.com/
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cold War and Submarines http://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/index.html
Fifties Web http://www.fiftiesweb.com/ Written by a "Boomer" this is a fun site. You can get the Burma Shave slogans, listen to tunes from the fifties and get an annotated list of other sites on the fifties. The bright backgrounds are a little distracting, but really fit the era. Maybe I enjoyed it since I too remember Hoola Hoops and Pop-it Necklaces!
1947 Truman Doctrine http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/doctrine.htm
1951 Rosenburg Trial
1955 Murder of Emmett Till
Kennedy Assassination - Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/jfk/jfk.htm
Lest we Forget http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/
Little Rock Remembered http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/little-rock-home.html
Little Rock 40th Anniversary http://www.centralhigh57.org/
McCarthyism http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAred.htm
Moon Walk -- 1969
Radical Times -- Protests in the 60's http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/index.htm
Rosa Parks-- Montgomery Bus Boycott http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/
Sixties Project http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/
Sputnik http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/sputnik/
Televison Transforms society http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/picturepower/
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement wikipedia
Wallace, George -- from PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/
War in Vietnam: The Story in Photographs
http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/vietnam.html1972 Watergate http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm
S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online 1975
Fall of Saigon http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/saigon/
Feeling Retro: 1970's
http://www.feelingretro.com/
1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis http://jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/hostages.phtml
Iran Hostage Crisis http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/18/iran/main265244.shtml
1978 Jonestown Massacre http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01/
1979 Three Mile Island, Washington Post Series http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tmi/tmi.htm
1979 Three Miles Island, PBS Series
Kent State http://www.may4.org/
Seventies Page http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/ Lots of 70's entertainment information: music, television etc. Links to other items.
Links to events of the 1980's
from Chico High School
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger
1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Links to events of the 1990's
from Chico High School -- includes links to Gulf War
Columbia Encyclopedia
Encarta Online
InfoPlease.com
ABC World News
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/
BBC News This takes you to the BBC site index. Look in the upper right for a search box.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/a-z/
CBS World News
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/world/main202.shtml
There is a search box in the upper right corner.
CNN World News Special Reports
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/
This takes you to the special reports section. Look toward the bottom for the archives.
News and Current Events Sites http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/newshc.html
Multnomah County Library in Portland, lists sites that may help you find info.
Online News Hour
Search Index from PBS
Archive goes back to 1996. Easy to search.
USA Today World News
http://www.usatoday.com/usafront.htm
Chronology of United States Historical Documents
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
Wikipedia: United States Timeline
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_history
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