Unit IX: Continuity and Change (1945-1975)

From Revolution to Modern Times (Hypertext)

A People's Century (PBS)

American Presidents: Life Portraits (C-Span)

 

Cold War

 

Cold War at Home

• Senator Joseph McCarthy: A Multimedia Celebration
• Senator Joseph McCarthy (Jesse Friedman)
• Exhuming McCarthy (Joshua Micah Marshall )
• The Impact of McCarthyism
• Cold War History and Information
• Democratic and Communist Ideology - Matching Exercise
• CNN Educator's Guide to the Cold War
  • Propaganda (CNN)
• Fighting Words (History Net)
• Alger Hiss

Soviet Union

• Information on Soviet Leaders!
  • Nikita Khrushchev: Up From the Plenum (Time's 1957 Man of the Year)
  • Khrushchev's Shoe Shook The World
  • Nikita Khrushchev's Grave
  • Creative Quotations from Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)
• Brezhnev: A Stagnation Age Leader
• Leonid Brezhnev (Russia.net History)
• Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
• The Red Files (PBS)
• The Berlin Wall
• The Berlin Wall Interactive
• The U-2 Spy Plane Incident
• Red Files

 

Korean War

• Korean War Project
• Embassy of the Republic of Korea
• Eyewitness: A North Korean Remembers
• Canadians in Korea
• America at War
• MacArthur (American Experience)
• The Korean War (Teaching Source)

Cuba

• The United States and Cuba
• Attack at the Bay of Pigs (April 1961)
• The Bay of Pigs Invastion
• Record of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro Government of Cuba (17 March 1960 - May 1961)
• The United States and Cuba
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cuban Missile Crisis (Web Quest/Sue Kargin)
• The Cuban Missile Crisis II
• 14 Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy (Cuban Missile Crisis)
• Cuban Missile Crisis (Think Quest)
• Carlos Lechuga, Cuban ambassador to the U.N. Discloses Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Foreign Relations of the United States: 1961-1963
• Abandoned Missile Base
• The Real Thirteen Days
• Cuban Missile Crisis Links
• Thirteen Days
• The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

ColdWar (General)

• Cold War Policies: 1945-1991 (University of San Diego)
• A War of Ideas: A History of the Cold War
• Katanga: Congo's secessionist nightmare
• Guatemala '54
  • Clandestine Grandaddy of Central America
• U.S. Meddling in Foreign Elections (New York Times)
• Venezuela's Electronic News
• Third World Traveler (Friendly Dictators)
• The United States and Third World Dictators (Policy Analysis)
• The Race for the Super Bomb (American Experience)
  • Blast Mapper: Map a Blast (**********)
• Submarines, Secrets, and Spies
• The NATO Home Page
  • The 19 NATO Member Countries
  • Formation of NATO (History House)
• The Cold War (World Book)
• The Cold War Era (American History)

Cold War (Links)

• Cold War Hot Links (You don't need to look any further!)
• Cold War: The Game (CNN)

 

Civil Rights Movement

• I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days (Ray Sprigle)
• Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (Juan Williams)
• Papers of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: 1954-1970
• National Civil Rights Museum

 

African American

Information

• Black Quest Power Links
• African and African American Resources at the Smithsonian
• Department of Justice (Civil Rights Division)
  • Voting Rights Act Clarification
• AfriNet Main Page
• The Universal Black Pages
• Skin Deep (PBS)
• Africans in America (PBS)
• Secret Daughter (Frontline)
• The Two Nations of Black America (Frontline)
• Caught in a Web (Juanita Erikson)
• Columbia Heights: A Washington, D.C. Neighborhood
• The Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs
• King of the Bingo Game
• African American Pamphlets Home Page
• African American Pamphlet Collection
• How Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?
• Interracial Marriage in America

History

• Black History Month (New York Times)
• Black History Month (CNN)
• Black History Month (American History)
• Photo Tour of the Civil Rights Movement (Seattle Times)
• Black History Month (Teacher Vision)
• Black Web/Our History (Canada)
• Black History
• African American History
• Britannica Guide to Black History
• African American History Month
• African Studies Home Page
• Black History
• African American Perspectives (Pamphlets: 1818-1907)
• African-American History
• African American History
• Free African Amerians of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,Maryland, and Delaware (Paul Heinegg)
• The African American Journey (World Book Encyclopedia)
  • Black History Month
• Celebrating Black History Month (National School Network)
• The Role of the Negro in Missouri History, 1719-1970
• Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography
• Welcome to African American History
• Our Shared History
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Lest We Forget (*)
• The Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Movement (Power Point)
• The African American Journey
• Emancipation
• American Slave Narratives
• African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
• The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords (PBS)
• 1963 March on Washington: Part One (American History)
• 1963 March on Washington: Part Two (American History)
• AITLC Guide to African American History
• Student Online Civil Rights Forum
• Black History Month: A Celebration
• Black History: Past to Present
• Black History Month Treasure Hunt and Quiz
• Black History Month in the United States Government
• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (American History)
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
• Negro Spirituals.com

Education

• Teaching African-American History
• The Civil Rights Movement (George Cassuto/A Web Design Project)
• From Swastika to Jim Crow (PBS)
• African Educational Research Network
• School District of Philadelphia: African Studies
• Stamp on Black History

Events

• Freedom Rides
• 1960: Blacks Protest Desegregation in Southern Restaurants and Buses
• Greensboro Sit-ins
• Hough and Glenville Racial Riots
• Little Rock Nine
• Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax
• Brown v.Topeka Board of Education
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Los Angeles Watts Riot

Individuals

Educator's Guide for Rosa Parks

Sojourner Truth

Jackie Robinson (Breaking Barriers)

Jackie Robinson (Sporting News)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration (January 17, 2000)

Rosa Parks (The Academy of Achievement)

My Story: Rosa Parks (Scholastic)

Medgar Evers Home Page

James Meredith

Prominent African Americans

Malcolm X Archive

American Identities (Minority Resources) (Detroit Public Library)

Martin Luther King Day

A Tiny Book About Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr./April 1963)

Jackie Robinson (The Sporting News)

Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr

Historical African American Inventors

African American Inventors Series

African American Inventors (Detroit Public Library)

African American Women Inventors

George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire

Emmett Till (Metacrawler)

The Death of Emmett Till (Bob Dylan)

Emmett Till (The Sacrifical Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement)

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Philosophy

The Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Part I)

The Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Part II)

Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore (PBS)

Carter Woodson: The Father of Black History

W.E.B. DuBois (About)

The Murder of Medgar Evers (Part I)

The Murder of Medgar Evers (Part II)

Malcolm X: His Words Written and Spoken

Carl B. Stokes (Mayor of Cleveland)

Chasing the Dream

Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Foundation of Jacksonville, Florida

• The Declaration of Independence and the Vietnam War
• Letter from Birmingham Jail
  

Links

• Hot Bot Civil Rights Links
• Civil Rights Links (Yahoo)
• Black History

Women

• National Women's History Project
• Women's History Month at Suite 101
• National Women's Hall of Fame
• Women's History Month
• National Women's History Project
• Women's History Bookmarks
• Women's History Resources (Montgomery Country Public Schools)
• Women in American History (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Women's Suffrage Movement (NARA)
• Women in World History Curriculum
• Woman Suffrage Movement Home Page (NARA)
• H-Frauen (H-Net Discussion Network on Women and Gender)
• National Women's History Project
• Women's History Ideas
• Sexual Harassment: What Every Working Woman Needs to Know
• The Quest Beyond the Pink Collar
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook
• Gifts of Speech (Women)
• Women's Connection Online
• Women Leaders Online
• The Quest for Equality:Women's History (World Book)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (PBS)
• Worchester Women's History Project
• Woman and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
• Unforgettable Women of the 20th Century (People Magazine)
• Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home
• American Women's History: A Research Guide
• Susan B. Anthony
• Twenty of the Greatest American Women of the 20th Century
• Women and Social Movements: 1820-1940
• Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
• Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
• Women"s Suffrage Movement
• State and Regional History
• Women's History Field Trip

Minorities

• Fight in the Fields (Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker's Struggle)

 

Miscellaneous

• Reference Report #19 (NARA)

 

Vietnam

• Vietnam War Bibliography
• Tour to Vietnam
• Statistics about the Vietnam War
• Vietnam Links (Massive)
• Vietnam: Stories Since the War
• Vietnam War Bibliography (Edwin E. Moise)
• How the Vietnam War differed from Other Wars
• Vietnam Veteran's Terminology and Slang
• Vietnam Online (American Experience)
• Re: Vietnam (Stories Since the War)
• The Wall on the Web (Vietnam)
• Sp/4 James "Tom" Davis Killed in Action
• The Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975 (Vassar College)
• Phone Conversation Between Ngo Dinh Diem and Henry Cabot Lodge, November 1,1963. (Temple University)
• Vietnam Veterans Home Page
• Vietnam War History Page
• America at War
• The Conflict in Vietnam  (Dr. Gerald Kurland)
• TheWar Makers (John Dellinger)
• From Sideshow To Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust
• The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare (John Gates, The College of Wooster)
• Vietnam and the Second Indochina War (Syllabus -- Winthrop University)
• Vietnam War Bibliography: U.S. Policy: Nixon & Ford Administrations
• Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
• The Lessons of Vietnam (Give War a Chance)
• Assignment Hanoi (PBS)
• The VietnamWar (Multieducator)
• Assignment Hanoi
• Teach Vietnam: The Learning Experience
• Vietnam Music
• Vietnam Cities
• Studying the Vietnam War Online
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Vietnam War (About American History)
• Vietnam Archives (New York Times)
• One Awful Night in Thanh Phong (Bob Kerrey)
• Lessons of the Vietnam War **********
• Selective Service Home Page
• Ho Chi Minh (Time Top Leaders)
• The Johnson Administration and Pacification in Vietnam
• About the Vietnam War
• Marine Sgt. Ron Kovic
• Sixties Project: Articles on the Sixties and the Vietnam War
• The Vietnam Legacy (Online News Hour)
• Cointelpro

 

Counterculture

• Baby Boomers Home Page
• 1960's Timeline
• Psychedelic 60's Home Page
• Free Speech Movement
• Woodstock Festival and Concert
• The Sixties Home Page
• My Own Private Sixties (William Caughey)
• The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
• Welcome to the Fifties
• The Fifties Web
• Rewind the Fifties (Opening)
• New Page
• Alan Watts Home Page
• Charlie's Family
• 1968: The Whole World War Watching
• The Peace Sign
• Yin Yang Home Page
• Seventies Boogie Bus
• Summary of the Ira Einhorn/Holly Maddux Murder
• Ira Einhorn (Metacrawler Links)
• The Unicorn's Secret
• The Aftermath: The Turbulent Sixties
• Radical Times: The Antiwar Movement of the 1960's
• Psychedelic Rock (Britannica)
• Tiny Tim (Webcrawler Links)
• Welcome to 1966
• American Cultural History: 1960's
• 1960-1969
• Student Movements in the 1960's
• Tiptoe Through the Tulips
• Tiny Tim Memorial Site
• Tiny Tim Memorial Page
• Old Hip's Groovy Hippie Links
• Radical Times:The Antiwar Movement of the 1960's

Kent State

• Special Collections and Archives, May4th Collection Home Page
  • May 4th Oral History Project 2000
• May Day: Kent State (The People)
• Kent State Conference (1995)
• Kent State, the Movie (1981)
• Kent State Anti-War Committee

Media

• Special Map Collection (Korea, Vietnam)
• Special Map Collection (Gulf War)

Popular Culture

• The Quiz Show Scandal (The American Experience)
• Dr. Joyce Brothers
• Hopalong Cassidy (Metacrawler Links)
• William Boyd (Metacrawler Links)
• William Boyd and Hopalong Cassidy
• William Boyd

Space Program

• The Launching of Sputnik (New York Times)
• Apollo 11
• Apollo 11 Animations
• The History of Space Exploration
• John Glenn, American Hero (PBS)
• Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions
• To the Moon (Nova)
• Who's Who in Space
• Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age
• The Wrong Stuff (Wired)
• Project Blue Book

 

Miscellaneous

• The 50's Grease Web Page
• The Strawberry Statement (E! Online)
• The Strawberry Statement (Video Flicks)
• Dr. Strangelove
• Strangelove
• CD Shop: Woodstock 25th Anniversary
• Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• Literature and Culture of the American 1950's
• "The Three Faces of Power and Subversion in The Manchurian Candidate." (Jeffrey D. Sadow)
• Chicago: 1968 (American Experience)
• Roe v. Wade (1998)
• U.S.-Cuban Relations
• Secret History of the United States (1962-1996)
• Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
• "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Stream of Consciousness)
• "We Didn't Start the Fire" II
• The Day of Death (Charles J. Whitman)
• 1960's People and Events (Encarta)
• The High Energy Weapons Archive A Guide to Nuclear Weapons
• The Killer's Trail (Dr. Sam Sheppard)
• Nixon's China Game (PBS)
• Levittown: The Birth of the Suburbs
• Timeline of the 20th Century
• Jennings Randolph: "Father of the 26th Amendment"
• Meltdown at Three Mile Island
  

 

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