Print Resources ~ Physical and digital books prepared by subject-area experts presenting primary and secondary source information as well as statistics, images, facts, and/or narrative.
~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library. Example searches from GVRL eBooks:
~ American Decades: Search example: 1950s music, 1960s clothing, Vietnam War
~ American Decades Primary Sources
~ Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America
~ Encyclopedia of the Cold War
~ The Sixties in America
Databases ~ Special collections of information prepared by subject-area experts available digitally in a variety of formats. Invisible to search engines such as Google.
~ Biographies, magazine, and newspaper articles
~ Search example: enter 1950s and music > Click Go > Select an article, image, or video.
~ News stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included: Chicago Tribune Morgue clippings file (nearly 3 million); major stories covering events and issues clipped and indexed by the Chicago Tribune staff at time of publication. Coverage is from the 1920's through 1984. Front pages (16,614 pages containing over 155,000 articles) - image of entire front page as it appeared when published from the early 1900 through 1984.
~ Search example: 1950, 1920s fashion, 1960s
~ Historical newspapers including The Chicago Daily (Tribune), The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and The New York Times.
~ Reference, magazine/newspaper, and primary sources
~ Use the Read Speaker Dashboard pictured here:
to listen to any Student Resource Center Gold document. You may also download articles as an mp3 file. Transfer the file to your iTunes library or other mp3 library and listen to the article.
Click on the icon above or use each link below to list articles on all aspects of
American life such as the arts, sports, fashion, music, etc.1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | Cold War, 1945-1991 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | Korean War, 1950-1953 | Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 | Moon Landings, 1969-1972 | Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973) | Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, Nuclear Accident, 1979 | Vietnam War, 1959-1975 | United States history, 1945-
- American Cultural History by Decade ~ Click on a decade to view information, images, and more from American History. From the Kingwood College Library.
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American Cultural History: 1940-1949 ~ Extensive set of links and information from the Kingwood College Library.
- American Memory Collections: 1930-1949 ~ 50 collections of primary sources, images, sound recordings, and information about American life during the 30s and 40s. Click on a collection to start viewing its contents.
- From Civil Rights to Black Power: 1946-1966 ~ A portion of the PBS documentary This Far by Faith. Be sure to click the "Continue" arrow at the bottom of each page to advance the information in this 20-year period section.
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American Cultural History: 1950-1959 ~ Extensive set of links and information from the Kingwood College Library.
- American Memory Collections: 1950-1969 ~ 26 collections of primary sources, images, sound recordings, and information about American life during the 50s and 60s. Click on a collection to start viewing its contents.
- The American 1950s ~ Large set of links to resources related to the culture and politics of the 1950's. Primary sources, images, and commentary. University of Pennsylvania.
- From Civil Rights to Black Power: 1946-1966 ~ A portion of the PBS documentary This Far by Faith. Be sure to click the "Continue" arrow at the bottom of each page to advance the information in this 20-year period section.
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American Cultural History: 1960-1969 ~ Extensive set of links and information from the Kingwood College Library.
- American Memory Collections: 1950-1969 ~ 26 collections of primary sources, images, sound recordings, and information about American life during the 50s and 60s. Click on a collection to start viewing its contents.
- From Civil Rights to Black Power: 1946-1966 ~ A portion of the PBS documentary This Far by Faith. Be sure to click the "Continue" arrow at the bottom of each page to advance the information in this 20-year period section.
- Get On the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961 ~ Information from Fresh Air, an NPR radio program.
- The Psychedelic '60s ~ Literature, music, primary sources, and images from the University of Virginia Library.
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow ~ Information, images, timelines from PBS.
- Vietnam Online ~ Timeline, bios, weapons, maps, primary sources. From the PBS series, American Experience.
- A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law (1965-1971) ~ This photographic exhibition examines themes from the 1960s counterculture. It was created to help "better understand that era within its own cultural context."
- 1968 Revisited ~ a great timeline of events enriched with information, images, and documents of key events from the New York University Archives.
- The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968 ~ a joint project between South Kingstown High School and Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group
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American Cultural History: 1970-1979 ~ Extensive set of links and information from the Kingwood College Library.
- American Memory Collections: 1970-present ~ 19 collections of primary sources, images, sound recordings, and
information about American life from the 1970s to the present.. Click on a collection to start viewing its contents. -
American Cultural History: 1980-1989 ~ Extensive set of links and information from the Kingwood College Library.
- American Memory Collections: 1970-present ~ 19 collections of primary sources, images, sound recordings, and
information about American life from the 1970s to the present.. Click on a collection to start viewing its contents.
20th Century
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N.
Mellendorf, Librarian. Maine South High School, Library Resource Center,
Park Ridge, IL
Created: 5/20/09 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org