20th & 21st Century America
Updated
July 11, 2005
JUMP TO.....
Comprehensive Sites
- Timelines - Primary Documents - Maps,
1900 vs. 2000 - Impact of the 20th Century, Planes - Trains - Automobiles,
The First 20 Years: 1900-1920, World War I, Immigration, The Roaring Twenties, The Turbulent Thirties,
World War II, The Fight for Civil Rights, 1950 - Present, Various Misc. Topics
GENERAL AND COMPREHENSIVE SITES
The
History Guide -- A Student's Guide for Studying History
EyeWitness
to the 20th Century - EyeWitness
To World War I - EyeWitness
To World War Two
Voices Of 20th
Century - History
in Motion
Important
developments, events and achievements of the 20th century - 21st
century
Events, Trends, and
People of the 1900s - 1910s
- 1920s - 1930s
- 1940s - 1950s
- 1960s - 1970s
- 1980s - 1990s
- 2000s
20th Century
American Culture
EyeWitness to the
20th Century - Voices
Of 20th Century - History
in Motion
Fact Monster - U.S.
(part of Fact Monster: Online Almanac,
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help)
Mrs.
Ruland's Social Studies Page
History - United States
History
Encyclopaedia of
USA History
Events and
Issues 1900-1940 - Events
and Issues 1940-1980
OUTLINE
OF AMERICAN HISTORY
About the USA - U.S.
History > U.S. History on the Internet
American
Economic History by Scott
History Matters: The U.S. Survey
on the Web
Sage History Home
The World War Cycle of U.S.
History
The Present Cycle in U.S.
History
20th Century History -
Home Page
American History 102: 1865-Present
1901 to World War II -
1945 to 21st Century
US HISTORY SINCE 1877
HistoryBuff.com
Digital History
Digital History -
For Teachers
Digital
History - Glossary of American History
Digital
History - Glossary of Native American History
Digital
History - Ethnic America
eHistory.com - the Web site for
history enthusiasts, students and educators.
20th Century
Decades: Selected Resources by Decade
20th Century
Decades: General Links
Social Change in the
United States from the 1950s to the 1980s
The
Almost Great Society: The 1960s
American
History, 1877-Present
Foundations
of the Modern State and Society, 1914-1929
The Transformation
of Modern America, 1912-1945
Postwar America,
1945-Present
The
World in the 20th Century - Lectures
for 20th Century World
The
Age of Anxiety
Who's Who in
American History
Annenberg/CPB
- A Biography of America
Postwar America
Decades of Change
Toward the 21st
Century
Pluralism and Unity
IPL
General/Reference Collection: 20th Century History
The Emergence of
Modern America Virtual Library
History
Guide -- Discovery Channel -- History Guide
America and the
Great War - World
War I & II, the Twenties, Depression & New Deal, 1914-1945 - Twenties,
Depression & New Deal - The
Cold War, Vietnam & Civil Rights, 1945-1980
About the USA -
Facts and Figures - History
Fact Monster: Online Almanac,
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help
TIMELINES OF THE 20TH
& 21ST CENTURIES
***** American
Cultural History - The Twentieth Century - TERRIFIC SITE!!!
TIMELINE: 1900-1999
People's
Century | Timeline
A
Century in Review - When
Was That? - Events of the 20th Century Quiz
The First Measured Century
TIMELINE: Year by Year: 1900-2005
TIMELINE: Twentieth Century History
20th century - 21st century
weblinks-The New Millenium-The 21c
TIMELINE ARCHIVE
Digital History - Interactive Timeline
Digital History - Timelines
Digital History - Websites Ordered by Time Period
Digital History - Landmarks in Immigration History
TIMELINE: Media History 1900s
Digital History - Chronology of Film History
TIME LINE OF 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MUSIC
Timeline of Costume History: Main Page
The Food Timeline
dMarie Time Capsule - On This Day In History
Those Were the Days, Today in History
TIMELINE: Millennium Milestones
The American Experience | America 1900 | Timeline
1854 - 1919: Imperialism and World War I Timeline
1869 - 1921: Populism and Progressivism Timeline
TIMELINE: Cold War
Parthenon Graphics Timelines: Full Size Images
More timelines below according to each topic.
For more, check out the TIMELINE section on my General U.S.A. History page.
Timelines on World History & Events can be found on my Maps, Flags, Timelines page.
CHECK OUT MY PAGE ON....
"We Didn't Start the Fire": The History Behind Billy Joel's Song
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
The
Avalon Project : 20th Century Documents
The Avalon Project :
21st Century Documents
EyeWitness - The
20th Century - Voices
Of 20th Century - History
in Motion
EyeWitness to History -
history through the eyes of those who lived it
The
Avalon Project : September 11, 2001 : Attack on America
Documents for
the Study of American History: 1400 - 2005
Electronic Text Center at UVa Library
Universal Newsreels
on DVD
Chronological
List of Primary Documents at the Library of Congress
Documents
Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914
PRIMARY
DOCUMENTS: From Versailles to NATO : 1918-1949
The Avalon
Project: American Diplomacy - 1778 to the Present
The Avalon
Project: Common Names of Treaties and Other Diplomatic Agreements
Vincent
Ferraro, Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy
MSU Libraries - Special
Collections
American
Radicalism Collection
The National Security Archive at
George Washington University
National Security
Archive Electronic Briefing Books
PRIMARY SOURCES:
New Century Perspectives
PRIMARY
SOURCES: Documents Related to the Cold War
PRIMARY
SOURCES: EyeWitness To The 20th Century
The
Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1930
Postwar
United States, 1945 to early 1970s
Contemporary
United States, 1968-present
Media Coverage from
the Newsmuseum: Stories of The Century
TIME Magazine Archives - TIME
Archives - TIME Magazine Back Issues
Many
Pasts-primary documents about the experiences of ordinary Americans
Social Welfare and
Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic
National Public
Radio's Lost and Found Sound and Lost
and Found Sound: The Stories
HistoryBuff.com -
Audio Library (part of HistoryBuff.com)
EarthStation1.com - The
Internet's #1 Audio - Visual Archive
EarthStation1.com -
The Historical Sounds & Pictures Archive
Radio History Audio
Snippets
On
the Air! Michigan Radio and TV Broadcasting 1920-2000
The
AP Looks Back: 150 Years of Capturing the Moment
"FLASH!
The Associated Press Covers the World"
Panoramic
Photographs from the National Archives
Picturing
the Century
Herblock's History
(Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium): Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Online
Catalog
Prints and
Photographs: An Illustrated Guide - Table of Contents
Prints and Photographs Reading
Room (Library of Congress)
Online Resources
for Moving Image Material
NARA - Online
Exhibits - Main Page
More documents can be found under specific sections below.
PLUS, for TONS of Primary Sources relating to the U.S., check out the Primary Source and Library of Congress sections on my General U.S.A. History page. Also, check out my U.S. Government and Presidents
webpages.
MAPS & IMAGES!!!
Current
United States Maps
Historical Atlas of the
20th Century
Reisenett:
Historical Maps of the United States
Zoom
Into Maps
Timemap
- US Borders
**** Historical
Maps of the United States
MAP - 20th Century
Urban Growth
MAP: Cold War
1945-1960
MAP: Cold War
1960-1991
MAPS: Twentieth
Century Atlas - Death Tolls
Map -
Political Violence in America
Image
Gallery
Digital History -
American Historical Images
Digital History
- Links to Historic Maps
Picturing
the Century: 100 Years of Photographs from the National Archives
Photographs
of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
George
Eastman House Selected Lewis W. Hine Series
Documenting America
American Photography: A
Century of Images
Media Coverage from
the Newsmuseum: Stories of The Century
The
Learning Page - Community Center - Political Cartoons
Documenting America
FSA/OWI B&W
Photographs - Color
Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page
The
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
IMAGES:
Settling the Land - 1880-1920
IMAGES:
Farming the Land - 1880-1920
THE
WAY THINGS WERE: A Photographic Essay on Rural Texans and Their Buildings,
1850-1940
Transportation
and Communication Maps Home Page
TIME.com:
TIME Magazine Covers Archive - SEARCHABLE!!!
LIFE Online:
Cover Collection from '36 to '72
The
AP Looks Back: 150 Years of Capturing the Moment
"FLASH!
The Associated Press Covers the World"
Panoramic
Photographs from the National Archives
Prints & Photographs Online
Catalog
Prints and
Photographs: An Illustrated Guide - Table of Contents
Herblock's History
(Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium): Library of Congress
American Memory from the
Library of Congress - Browse Collections
Online Resources
for Moving Image Material (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room - Library
of Congress)
NARA - Online
Exhibits - Main Page
For more, check out each topic below
Also, check out the MAP section on my General U.S.A. History page.
For maps of the World, check out my Maps, Flags, Timelines page.
FOR INFO ON THE U.S. ROLE IN 20TH CENTURY WARS:
WORLD
WAR I
/
WORLD WAR II / COLD
WAR - KOREA - VIETNAM - DESERT STORM / WAR
ON TERRORISM
THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
Leading
up to the 20th century: the
1890s
American Cultural History
- Decade 1900-1909
Events, Trends, and
People of the 1900s - 1910s
The American Experience |
America 1900
The 1900 House - Home
City Life at the
turn of the 20th Century
America at Work
/ America at School / America at Leisure, 1894-1915
SnapShots -
Immigration in the Early 20th Century
New York City at the Turn of
the Century
Turn-of-the-Century
Child: Examine their Faces
PRIMARY
SOURCES: New Century Perspectives
The New Model Army:
The American Century 1900
The American
Experience | Around the World in 72 Days with Nelly Bly
Atlas - 20th
Century Urban Growth
The
Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
HistoryBuff.com
-- History Library -- The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
New
Women
The American Experience
| Wayback - Technology of 1900
From PBS, Great First Person Impressions of Life in the 20th Century:
People's Century
People's Century | Timeline
STATISTICS COMPARING 1900 TO
TODAY
TIME
100: 1900 vs. Now (1998)
TIME
100: 1900 vs. Now (1998): Statistics on the U.S.A.
TIME 100:
1900 vs. Now (1998): Statistics on the World
**** dMarie Time Capsule -
Find out what the average salary, the cost of a home, the price of a loaf of
bread for any year, 1900 - Present.
**** The Inflation Calculator
- Accounting for inflation, $5.00 in 1957 is now worth $33.98!!! The $0.35 loaf
of bread my Mom sent me to the store to buy in 1967 now costs $1.99! Just plug
in an amount and its corresponding value for any year from 1800 - 2009!
MORE ON THE IMPACT OF THE
20TH CENTURY AND THE MILLENNIUM
****** American
Cultural History - The Twentieth Century
TIMELINE:
Millennium Milestones
Stories of The Century
AP list of the 100
top news stories of the 20th Century
The Top 100
This-and-Thats of the 20th Century
freedomforum.org:
Top 100 20th-Century News Stories
My
Century | BBC World Service
Images
- Millennium "My Century": BBC World Service
My
Century | BBC World Service - Scientific Breakthroughs
TheStreet.com:
The Basics of Business History: 100 Events That Shaped a Century
fiftythings: A Cultural Inventory For the
Next Millennium
Greatest Engineering Achievements
of the Twentieth Century
ESPN.com: Beauty, grace and speed
American
Photography: A Century of Images
Media Coverage from
the Newsmuseum: Stories of The Century
CNN.com
- Millennium: A Perspectives Series
frontline:
apocalypse!
Millennium Calendars -- The
Calendar Zone
Everything 2000
LIFE Online:
Millennium
Looking Back on
the American Century
Picturing
the Century
The
Second Industrial Revolution
TRANSPORTATION:
TRAINS - PLANES - AUTOMOBILES!!!!
GENERAL
The
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, US DOT
How Far Is It?
Fuel Consumption
Conversion Calculator - Miles
Per Gallon Calculator
OTT - Transportation
Data and Analysis
Federal Highway
Administration Home Page
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian: Transportation History
Transport
Geography on the Web
History of the US
Highway System - Historic
US Highways
Historical
Evolution of Transportation
American Notes: Travel in
America, 1750-1920
America On The
Move - Home Page
Transportation
and Communication Maps Home Page
Taming
the Wilderness: Rivers, Roads, Canals, and Railroads
Erie Canal - Erie
Canal, New York, 1829
Western
Transportation History: Crossing the Great Divide of the America
NYART -
Technology in the City Web Exhibit - Transportation Timeline
Women in
Transportation - Timeline of Events: 1930 - 2000
The
American Experience/Technology/New York Underground
Lying Lightly on the Land
Exhibit, National Park Roads and Parkways
American Highway Project
History of the US
Highway System
Touring
the 1930s American Roadscape
Roadside Architecture
Roadside Peek :
Roadside Architecture
Roadside Architecture: Society for
Commercial Archeology
Welcome to Roadside Peek
Back On Tack - Roadside Attractions
& Oddball Architecture
American Roadside
Architecture of the 20th Century
Diner City, online guide
to classic diners and the American Roadside
PLANES - AVIATION
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always
long to return."
-- Leonardo da Vinci
Aviation
Through the Ages
Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum Homepage - more info on the space program below.
PBS - Chasing the Sun
The Dream of
Flight (A Library of Congress Special Presentation
Remember the
Wright Brothers' historic flight
The Wright Brothers
How we
made the first flight by Orville Wright
"To Fly is
Everything...":A Virtual Museum on the Invention of the Airplane
Flights of Inspiration
Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company
and Museum of Pioneer Aviation Home Page
The American Experience |
WayBack - Flight
The
Great Zeppelins, The
Zeppelin Library, & Airships:
The Zeppelin website.
Hindenburg
Zeppelin, The
Hindenberg, "Radio Days -
Hindenburg", Old
Radio Programs - Historical Speeches - The Hindenberg Airship Disaster, The
Hindenburg Disaster - Hindenburg
(LZ-129) - The
Hindenburg Disaster - The Explosion of the Hindenburg Dirigible - FBI
Documents on the Hindenburg Disaster - Airships:
The Hindenburg and Other Zeppelins
The American
Experience | Lindbergh
Igor I. Sikorsky -
inventor of the Helicopter
Airlines in the World
Wide Web
Color in the
Sky: Braniff History and Uniforms
Fatal Passenger
Event Rate By Airline Since 1970
"Air Rage: The terrorism
of temperamental travelers or bad airplane air?"
Aircraft Images
Archive
For info
and images of military aircraft, please visit my World
War I, World War II, and Cold
War - Korea - Vietnam - Desert Storm pages.
For info on airline terrorism, please visit my War
on Terrorism page.
TRAINS
MAPS: Railroad Collection
National Railroad Museum Home Page
RAILROAD HISTORY
Railroad History
American Experience | Streamliners - America's Lost Trains
Steam Engine Library
United Pacific Rail Road-History & Photos
Railroad.net - The Railroad Network
Welcome to The Cyberspace World Railroad
Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society
Union Pacific Railroad Homepage
Trains Across America
The American Experience | Riding the Rails
For more info on Trains/Railroads, please visit that section on my 19th Century America page.
AUTOMOBILES
How
Far Is It?
US
Distance Calculator, Driving Directions, Distance Between Cities
Rand McNally Driving Directions
Fuel
Consumption Conversion Calculator - Miles
Per Gallon Calculator
Welcome to
Gaspricewatch.com - Find the lowest gas prices in your neighborhood
American Highway Project -
Find more on road history and roadside architecture in the "General
Transportation" section above.
The Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, US DOT
Federal Highway
Administration Home Page
Impaired Driver
Stats & Facts
The Effects of Age on
the Driving Habits of the Elderly
Vision
and Driving Performance in Older Drivers
Automobile
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
Howstuffworks "How
Car Engines Work"
The Life of Henry Ford
Model T
Road Trip
Garrett's Garage
A
Brief History of the Auto Industry
Early Adventures
with the Automobile
AUTOPEDIA - The Automotive Encyclopedia
Automobile
History - Car Innovation History
Sloan Museum - Exhibit
of historic cars & early automobile manufacturing
Alfred P. Sloan Museum
Styling and design of
American automobiles throughout the 1930s.
Classicar.com
1957
Detroit Auto Show Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum
Cars,
Consumerism and the Cold War
1950s
Cars to Color, Michigan Historical Museum
Why
do some countries drive on the left & others on the right side of the road?
Studebaker National Museum
The
Rise and Fall of the Edsel
Corvair - A great
Car At Any Speed
Classic
Mustang Home Page
Big Trucks
-- The Dirty Truth
Stop
Signs from Around the World
Old Gas Station Collectibles - Primarily
Petroliana
LICENSE PLATES and LICENSE
PLATE COLLECTING: Platesmenistan
LICENSE PLATES OF THE WORLD
Classic mopar car
commercials from Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler and Desoto
Classic Car
Commercials
Car Talk: Click and Clack
Vehix.com - Auto Sales and
Car Reviews
Autoweb.com
Autoweb.com
| Kelley Blue Book
WOMAN MOTORIST Internet
Magazine with articles on cars, car reviews
New car prices, used car pricing, auto
reviews by Edmunds car buying guide
For more on inventions and inventors, drop by my
Inventors and Inventions page!
PANAMA CANAL
& IMPERIALISM
Let the Bloody Truth Be Told: A Chronology of U.S. Imperialism
TIMELINE: 1854 - 1919: Imperialism and World War I
OUTLINE: Economic Reasons for Imperialism
U.S. Diplomatic History - On the Road to Empire
Reasons for Empire
Ideological Reasons for Empire
Strategic Reasons for Empire
Political Reasons for Empire
America & Imperialism
Creating the Empire
Managing the Empire 1899-1909
American Foreign Policy in the Late 19th Century: Philosophical Underpinings
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900 - 1929
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
More on Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898 - 1935
Roosevelt, Wilson, and the Morality of Power
Explorations: Becoming a World Power
The Age of Imperialism
U.S. History - Early Imperialism
U.S.Imperialism
PRIMARY SOURCE: Panama Canal Treaty
The Panama Canal - More Panama Canal
Panama Canal History Museum - Photos, Documents, Books and Stories
How the Panama Canal works plus canal history, java animation
CNN In-Depth Specials - Panama Canal Handover
The Panama Canal - El Canal de Panamá - www.PanCanal.com
PanamaCanalMuseum.org
History House: The Canal That Almost Wasn't
History House: Things to do in Panama when you Have Yellow Fever
History House: Death and Dying in Panama
POLITICAL CARTOONS: Theodore Roosevelt and the Image of Empire
BoondocksNet.com - great site on Imperialism
Platt Amendment, 1903
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914
PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS
ACTION AGAINST PHILIPPINE OUTLAWS 1911 MEDALS OF HONOR RECIPIENTS
American Imperialism began in the late 1800s. For many more links to info, please visit the section on Spanish-American War & Imperialism on my 19th Century America page.
Visit my Presidents page for more on Teddy and the Canal.
PROGRESSIVE ERA
TIMELINE: 1869 - 1921: Populism and Progressivism
The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 - The Progressive Era, 1900-1920
OUTLINE: PROGRESSIVISM
Progressivism - what it's all about
The Antiquities Act of 1906
Mind Your Business!: One Woman’s Encounter with Reformers
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
JACOB RIIS REFORMER- PHOTOGRAPHER: A GALLERY
Eugenics Archive
HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
For tons of info, please go to the section on the Progressive Era on my 19th Century America page because that is when it all started!
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION & PANCHO VILLA
History of the Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution 1910
Revolucion de Mexico
Mexican Revolution
MEXICAN REVOLUTION 1910-1940 PRINCIPAL FIGURES
General Links to the Mexican Revolution
Who Was Pancho Villa?
PANCHO VILLA PAGE
The Hunt for Pancho Villa - El Sol de San Diego
Pancho Villa's Raid on Columbus, New Mexico
US Border Patrol Beginning
MEXICAN CAMPAIGN (VERA CRUZ) RECIPIENTS OF MEDAL OF HONOR
For much, much more, please visit the section on MEXICO on my Meso and Latin America
webpage.
THE GREAT WAR
Please visit my World War I page.
THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
The Bubonic Plague may be more famous, but the Influenza epidemic that began in 1918 killed 25 million people in one year!! This article begins with a brief description of the Plague, but then gives some facts on the awful pandemic of 1918.
The American Experience | Influenza 1918
Flu Epidemic of 1918: An American Plague
Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
1918 - Influenza
Life at Camp Funston
BETWEEN THE WARS: THE RED SCARE & THE COMMUNIST MENACE
Between the Wars: The Red Scare
Red Raids, Communist Fears
The Palmer Raids
About Red Scare (1918-1921)
Red Scare (1918-1921) : Subject Headings
Red Scare (1918-1921) : Thumb List, Chronological
Red Scare: Home Page
The Bid Red Scare
JWA - Emma Goldman - Overview
RAGTIME & JAZZ!
Dates in the Development of Ragtime
Jazz: Marking Time in American Culture
DECOY's Scott Joplin Page
Ragtime alphbetic index
ORIGIN OF RAGTIME
Ragtime History
A "Dixieland" and "Jazz" Overview
History of Jazz
Jazz Age Links
The Jazz Age Page
American Popular Music 1900 to 1950
For more, check out the section on the Roaring Twenties below.
For more on Ragtime, Jazz and other Music Genres of the 20th century, drop by my Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Swing page!
RADIO,
TV, AND THE MEDIA
U. S. Mass Media History
TIMELINE: Media History 1900s
Old-Time Radio Program Guide
Broadcasting History
On the Air! Michigan Radio and TV Broadcasting 1920-2000
Radio History Audio Snippets
HistoryBuff.com
HistoryBuff.com - Audio Library
History of Radio and Television
Recording Technology History links
History of Radio
Television Finds a Home
History of TV - Network TV - Split Personality Television - Satellite & Cable Television - Digital TV - Television Sources
For more info and tons of links on Media History, visit my General World History page!
Also, check out my Motion Pictures, Movies, Film and Television & Misc. Fine Arts webpage.
WOMEN GET THE VOTE!!!!!
TIMELINE: One Hundred Years toward Suffrage
TIMELINE: US Suffrage Movement 1792 - 1920 and 1920 - Today
PRIMARY SOURCES: Women's Liberation Movement - Duke Special Collection
The 19th Amendment
19th. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Why did it take women so long to win the right to vote?
Women's Suffrage
Woman and the Republic: An Anti-Suffrage Argument by Helen Kendrick John
OPPOSITION TO FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN THE UNITED STATES
THE ARGUMENTS OF THE ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS
England's Influence on US Women's Suffrage
Living the Legacy 1848-1998
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
Suffrage: Women's Vote - Woman Suffrage - 1900-1920
Woman Suffrage Sources at Duke
History of Women's Suffrage
Women Suffrage in the Progressive Era
Biographies of Suffragists
The Pioneers of Woman's Suffrage
IMAGES: Votes for Women
Pictures of Women's Suffrage Movement
Teacher Resources - Collection - Votes for Women, 1848-1921
Jeannette Rankin: Elected to Congress before Women's Suffrage
Frances Perkins: first woman US Cabinet member
The Idea of Women's Equality and its Migration throughout American History
New Women
The National Women's Hall of Fame - Welcome!
Women's Rights National Historical Park (National Park Service)
WRITING WOMEN INTO HISTORY
Suffragism began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. For much more info
on the Suffragettes and Women's Rights in general, visit my Women
webpage.
IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRATION HISTORY - WHO & WHY THEY CAME
TIMELINE:
Immigrant Experience
CHART:
U.S. Immigration History
Open Collections
Program: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Historical
Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850-1990
Historical
Background of the United States Census - Historical
Census Browser
History
of International Migration Site
The
Migration to North America
Digital
History - Ethnic America
The
Huddled Masses
Multicultural
American West
Digital
History - Landmarks in Immigration History
Immigration
Through Time
Immigration
History
Immigration
to the United States
Immigration
to the USA 1860-1960
Immigration
at the turn of the 20th Century
Immigration
in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The
Changing Character of Immigration
Americans
In The Raw
Anti-Immigration
and the KKK
Population
Movements & Migration
American Family Immigration
History Center - From Ellis Island - Find your ancestors!
HISTORY OF ELLIS
ISLAND
The Immigrant
Experience
THE IMMIGRANT JOURNEY
Electronic Ellis
Island: A Virtual Heritage Museum
National
Building Museum - The Abandoned Bldgs. of Ellis Island
A Nation of
Nations
Immigration,
Ellis Island
The American Immigrant Wall of Honor
The Immigration
Experience
Chinese
Immigration to the United States
Foreign
Immigrants in Industrial America
American
West - Swedish Emigration to America
IMAGES:
Immigrants: North Dakota, Land of Opportunity - 1880-1920
Documents
on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy
Tension over
Immigration: 1920s Restriction of foreign immigration
IMMIGRATION TO THE
FREE WORLD: Quotas during World War II
Angel Island Home
Page
Immigration Station
Angel Island: Immigrant Journeys
of Chinese-Americans
The
American Jewish Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration
Roman
Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America
GUESS WHO'S THE
IMMIGRANT, U.S. Immigration, Famous Immigrants
Famous &
Notable Immigrants - Celebrity
Immigrants - Historical
Immigrants - Statue
of Liberty National Monument -- Famous Immigrants
“We Do Not Understand the
Foreigners”: John J. Martin Testifies on the 1919 Steel Strike
"Gypsies"
in the United States
Heaven Will
Protect the Working Girl (Immigration & Sweatshops)
PASSENGER LISTS ON THE
INTERNET
Ship's
Passenger Lists and Indexes
Emigration /
Ship Lists and Resources
Immigration History Research
Center
"The New
Negro" Immigration and Migration
Emma Lazarus Fund -
Links
Emma
Lazarus and Her Vision
Eugenics Archive
For more on the immigrants to America, check out my webpages on From Colonies to Revolution and 19th Century America.
THE INS, IMMIGRATION TODAY, & VARIOUS TOPICS RELATING TO IMMIGRATION
US Immigration and Naturalization Service Home
USINS Glossary
Life in the USA: The Complete Guide for Immigrants and Americans
Immigration Daily Headline News
Daily Headline News Archives - Immigration Issues
Immigration Issues
U.S. Constitution Test - Today's test administered to all immigrants desiring to become U.S. citizens
IMMIGRATION: A GUIDE TO IMMIGRATING TO THE U.S.
The WWW Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations
GERMAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: Education - Famous Arab Americans
Emerald Isle Immigration Center - Irish Immigrant Advice Center- New York
FAIR - Federation for American Immigration Reform
Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies: IMMIGRANT/REFUGEE
Immigration: The Demographic and Economic Facts
CBP.gov - U.S. Customs & Border Patrol
THE ROARING TWENTIES
OUTLINE:
The Roaring 1920s
American Cultural History
- Decade 1920-1929
SnapShots -
America in the 1920s
Important Events,
Trends, & People of the 1920s
The 1920's
Experience - People, Events, Fads, Fashion, Entertainment, Art, Literature,
Music, Inventions!!!
Only
Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
Summary: The
1920s
The
Jazz Age: The American 1920s
BOOM
AND BUST, 1921-1933
The Age of
Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s
The
Politics of Prosperity: The 1920s
The
Politics of Frustration: The 1920s
Clash of
Cultures Homepage
Jazz Age
Culture
The 1920's - Roaring Twenties - The
Nineteen Twenties in History
Flappers
in the Roaring Twenties
Roaring 20s and the
Great Depression History Resources
Prosperity
and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
The Lawless Decade By Paul Sann
Welcome to the
1920's
The U.S.
Economy in the 1920s | Economic History Services - Economy
of the 1920s - 1920's Business
and Economy
Roaring 20s and the
Great Depression History Resources
1920s
The
Roaring Twenties
Roaring
Twenties
1920s Floor Show
The
1920's
Jazz: Marking
Time in American Culture - More info in the Jazz & Ragtime section
above.
Flapper Culture & Style
The
Jazz Age: Flapper Culture from Costume SuperCenter
QUIZ:
The Roaring Twenties - Musée McCord Museum
America in the 1920s
Roaring 1920's
Concert Extravaganza
U.S. Prosperity,
Cultural Clash, and Market Crash
Scopes
Trial Home Page - UMKC School of Law
The
Scopes Trial
Inherit the
Wind - the play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes
'Monkey Trial' - July 10, 1925
American Experience |
Monkey Trial
Leopold
and Loeb Trial Home Page
The
Sacco-Vanzetti Case (overview)
The Advertising
of Installment Plans During the 1920s
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs:
The Dangers of Consumption
THE GROWTH
OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE 1920S
The
Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, The
Second Ku Klux Klan, The
Ku Klux Klan in the City 1915-1930, The
Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, The
KKK in Texas, Ku
Klux Klan in Dallas, Texas During the 1920s, Klu
Klux Klan in 1920s El Paso, TX, Journal
of San Diego History: San Diego's Ku Klux Klan 1920-1980 - For more on the
history of the KKK, please check out the Reconstruction and What Followed
section on my Reconstruction
and the Lost Cause webpage.
F.
Scott Fitzgerald
Sheiks and Shebas
- Women's Fashions of the 1920s & 20th
Century Western Costume: 1920 -1930 - more info on 1920s fashion can be
found on my FASHION: PAST
AND PRESENT page.
NARA
| Exhibit Hall | The Constitution: The 19th Amendment
19th. Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution
Votes for Women:
Timeline - More info available on my Women
web page.
New
Women
Harlem
Renaissance: A Brief Introduction
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem - 1925:
"Mecca of the New Negro"
“The Eruption of
Tulsa”: An NAACP Official Investigates the Tulsa Race Riot, 1921
Dorothy Parker's New York
- for more on authors of the 1920s, check out my Literature
and Drama page.
Texas Guinan's
Speakeasy and Stationer's - 1920s postcards
The American Experience |
Lindbergh
Agricultural
Changes in the 20s
Greatest Films of the
1920s
American
Experience | Fatal Flood
Art for
Trade's Sake: The Fusion of Commerce and Culture, 1927-1934
Oh Yeah?:
Herbert Hoover Predicts Prosperity
“The Gigantic Forces of
Depression Are Today in Retreat”: Hoover Insists
Black
Thursday: October 24, 1929 - New York Times Headlines
The
Stock-Market Crash as a Hallmark of the Period
The Crash of 1929
and the Depression
INTERACTIVE
DIAGRAM: Causes of the Wall Street Crash
1929 Stock Market Crash,
charts and stories of the 1987 Stock Market Crash - For more on the Crash
and the coming of the Great Depression, check out the section on the TURBULENT
THIRTIES below.
GANGSTERS AND PROHIBITION IN THE 1920s
PROHIBITION
Why Prohibition?
Prelude to Prohibition
The Politics of Prohibition: The 1920s
Prohibition in the Progressive Era
Prohibition as a Hallmark of the Period
Prohibition
The Volstead Act
The Constitution: 18th Amendment (Homer vs. The 18th Amendment, The Simpsons - TV.com)
The Constitution: 21st Amendment - Repeal of the 18th Amendment
Prohibition in Oregon: The Vision & the Reality
Woman's Crusade of 1873-74
Liquor Control, Temperance, and Prohibition
Speakeasies
Cocktail - Speakeasy
Texas Guinan: Queen of the Night by Leo Trachtenberg
The Brewing Industry and Prohibition
Saloons
Anti-Saloon League Home Page
The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918
Dry Propaganda
Thirst in America in the Late Twenties and Early Thirties: Prohibition
Prohibition of Alcohol in the 1920s
ALCOHOL PROHIBITION WAS A FAILURE
Success or Failure?
GANGSTERS & CRIME
History of the FBI - Lawless Years (1921-1933) - For more on the History of the FBI, check out History of the FBI
FBI History - Famous Cases
Al Capone - from the Crime Library
ALPHONSE CAPONE
History Files - Al Capone
St Valentine's Day Massacre and more on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Eliot Ness
Exhibit: Al Capone Verdict
Al Capone's Gravesite
History of the Mafia
Organized Crime In America of the Thirties: Best Cellars
For more on the Law and Crime in the U.S., check out my U.S. Government
webpage.
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother"
THE TURBULENT
THIRTIES AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION
GENERAL SITES
OUTLINE:
The Great Depression
American History -
1930-1939
NEW DEAL TIMELINE:
1933 and 1934
TIMELINE: America's
Great Depression
SnapShots -
America in the 1930s
Timeline
of the Great Depression
INTERACTIVE
DIAGRAM: Causes of the Wall Street Crash
1930's
Timeline
Definitions
of key terms relating to the Great Depression
New Deal Network: The Great
Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Adm
The
Real Deal: Intro
The Great
Depression
Summary
of the New Deal
Twenties,
Depression & New Deal
About the USA -
U.S. History > The Great Depression and the New Deal
Boom
and Depression
America in the
1930s
1930s FrontPage
America's
Great Depression
The Great Depression
The United States,
Depression, and Neutrality
Great
Depression and New Deal History Forum
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
the New Deal
Introduction: The
Great Depression and the New Deal
The
Great Depression and the New Deal
BOOM
AND BUST, 1921-1933
Coping
with the Great Depression
Americans
React to the Great Depression
The
Crash and the Great Depression
Great
Depression
The
Great Depression - Intro
Hoovervilles
During the Great Depression
Race
During the Great Depression
1930s
Great Depression Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum
We Made Do - Recalling
The Great Depression
Prices for
various items during the Great Depression
Then
and Now: Prices, 1930s Great Depression Gallery
Riding the
Rails--Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
The American
Experience | Riding the Rails
Hewitt's
New Deal Webquest
The Great
Depression and The New Deal
Philosophies
of President Hoover and President Roosevelt
Sliding
into the Great Depression
America's Great
Depression - Links
Building
America: FDR's New Deal
Hoover
Presidential Museum: The Great Depression
Picturing
the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
OUTLINE: NEW
SOUTH TO 1970s
Great Depression
History Resources
APUSH
Web Links-Depression & The New Deal
Portrait
of America: Survey Graphic in the Thirties
Index of
resources on the 1930s in America
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
PRIMARY SOURCES: WPA Life Histories--Home Page
PRIMARY SOURCES: Been Here So Long - WPA American Slave Narratives
PRIMARY SOURCES: WPA Life Histories from Texas
PRIMARY SOURCES: Great Depression Oral Histories
Social Welfare and Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic
NEW DEAL DOCUMENT LIBRARY: Author Index - Chronological Index - Publisher/Collection Index - Subject Index
NARA 1930 Census Microfilm Locator - Welcome Page
Oh Yeah?: Herbert Hoover Predicts Prosperity
“The Gigantic Forces of Depression Are Today in Retreat”: Hoover Insists
PRIMARY SOURCE: Letter to President Roosevelt
Document Library: Fireside Chats
Clergy Letters to FDR
The Social Implications of the Roosevelt Administration, by H. Ickes
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum: Photos of Great Depression & New
WPA Photoessays
New Deal Network Photo Gallery
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
FDR Cartoon Collection Database
Archival Resources on the Great Depression
The Magpie Sings the Great Depression - Student Voices from the 1930s
“I’m Going to Fight Like Hell:” Anna Taffler and the Unemployed Councils of the 1930s
“Sir I Will Thank You with All My Heart”: Seven Letters from the Great Migration
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project
Documentary Photography
U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color
FSA/OWI B&W Photographs
FSA-OWI: About the Collection -- Written Records
FSA-OWI: Selected Bibliography and Related Web Sites
Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page
NARA | Research Room | Guide to Records of the Children's Bureau
More primary documents can be found within each Great Depression subsection.
Many more images are available below in the section on Great Depression photography.
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
(It wasn't just the 1929 Market Crash!)
Black Thursday: October 24, 1929 - Introduction
1929 Stock Market Crash, charts and stories of the 1987 Stock Market Crash
The Crash of 1929
The Stock-Market Crash as a Hallmark of the Period
Looking Beyond Traditional Interpretations
Boom and Depression
The Great Depression - More Great Depression
Causes and Effects of the "Great Depression"
The Roots of the Great Depression
America's Great Depression - Causes and Cures
FRANKLIN DELANO & ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum
Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt's Timeline
INTERACTIVE DIAGRAM: The Impact of FDR
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum - Online Photos
PRIMARY SOURCE: FDR's First Inaugural Address(March 4, 1933) - FDR Second Inaugural, January 20, 1937
Document Library: Fireside Chats
FDR SPEAKS
PRIMARY SOURCE: FDR's First Fireside Chat(March 12, 1933) - FDR Fireside Chat on the New Deal, 1934
FDR's Second Term
Character Above All: Franklin D. Roosevelt Essay
THE AGE OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 1933-1945
FDR Cartoon Collection Database
Drawing FDR: Jerry Doyle and Fred O'Seibel - New Deal Political Cartoonists
Hyde Park: Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
The American Experience | Eleanor Roosevelt
Columnists on Parade: Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt ValKill Home
Eleanor Roosevelt: American Visionary
What New Deal Policies did Eleanor Roosevelt influence?
Much info on FDR is also included in the sites above and below within this section on the "Turbulent Thirties."
For much more on FDR & Eleanor, visit my Presidents & World War II pages.
AGRICULTURE & THE DUST BOWL
AGRICULTURE - TENANCY - SHARECROPPING
IMAGES: Farming the Land - 1880-1920
FDR Cartoon Dabatabase: The Farms Issue
New Deal Network Photo Gallery-Farm-to-Market Roads
Thumbs, FSA Labor maps, USDA History Collection
Boll weevil illustration, USDA History Collection
Agricultural Changes in the 1920s
Agriculture During the Great Depression
Cotton and Petroleum Crises of 1931 in Texas
NEW MEANS TO RESCUE AGRICULTURE, 3/16/33
FDR: "America's Economic Problem Number 1" - A response to FDR's speech by Harry Hopkins, WPA Administrator
Agricultural Adjustment Act
FDR's Address on the Agricultural Adjustment Act, May 14, 1935
Chronology of the Farm Security Administration
Farm Security Administration (FSA)
The Farm Security Administration - Info and images of the FSA photography division can be found below in the section on Great Depression photography.
Comments on the Farm Security Administration
US Code : Title 7 - Agriculture
Farmers and the Administration
Tenant Farmers, Now Homeless
Mapping Jobs for Texas Migrants
The Migrant Experience
Major Problems in the Rehabilitation of the South
Migratory Farm Labor in the United States
But migrant families do not gather...
Farm Tenancy: A Program
Southern Farm Tenancy
The New Deal for Share-Croppers
Salvation for the Tenant Farmer
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
The "New South"
“Almost Broken Spirits”: Farmers in the New South
"WE DOIN' ALRIGHT:" THE SOUTH IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Levi Jordan Plantation Home Page
Sharecropping and Tenancy at the Levi Jordan Plantation
Why did the tenants leave the Jordan plantation?
“Like a Thick Wall”: Blocking Farm Auctions in Iowa
Dissatisfied With the Lives They Live: Farm Women Describe Their Work in
Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee
Harvest and Relief
“Efficient Farms Need Not Pay Starvation Wages”: The Fair Labor Standard
Pea-Pickers' Child
The Missouri Sharecroppers Strike of 1939
Thumbnails, Extension Service Report, USDA History Collection
Homecoming - Chronicle of African-American Farming and Land Loss
Black Cotton Farmers and the AAA
Will the New Deal Be A Square Deal For the Negro?
What Hope For The Rural Negro?
"The New Negro" Immigration and Migration
From the Ground Up - Resettlement Administration
Weedpatch Camp
Life at Weedpatch Camp
The Federal Government's Role
THE WAY THINGS WERE: A Photographic Essay on Rural Texans and Their Buildings, 1850-1940
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration
PICTURING TEXAS: FSA-OWI Photographers in the Lone Star State, 1935-1943
PBS ONLINE: DEATH OF THE DREAM
The South: Where is it? What is it? - Index of Graphs
THE DUST BOWL
TIMELINE: Surviving the Dust Bowl
MAP: Surviving the Dust Bowl
PRIMARY SOURCES: Voices from the Dust Bowl Home Page - mirror site
About The Dust Bowl
The American Experience | Surviving the Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl During the Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Lost and Found Sound: Voices from the Dustbowl
The Dirty Thirties - Suite101.com
1933: "Black Blizzard" Blankets Country
1934: Storms Rage in "Dust Bowl"
FDR
-
THE NEW DEAL & THE ALPHABET SOUP AGENCIES
New
Deal Network
CHART:
New Deal Programs (Mirror
Site)
The
Real Deal: Intro
FDR
Fireside Chat on the New Deal, 1934
The
New Deal Checklist
INTERACTIVE
DIAGRAM: The New Deal
Encyclopaedia
of USA History: Roosevelt and the New Deal
New Deal
Network: Subject List
PRIMARY SOURCES:
WPA Life Histories--Home Page
PRIMARY SOURCES: Life
Histories from the Federal Writers' Project
IMAGES: New Deal Network:
Photo Gallery
IMAGES: Documenting America:
Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page
FDR Cartoon
Database: Waiting For the New Deal
FDR Project:
Political Cartoons - FDR's First 100 Days
FDR Cartoon
Database: Alphabet Soup (New Deal Programs)
New Deal Network Photo
Gallery - Work Projects
Summary
of the New Deal
New
Deal Highlights
The New
Deal
The
First Hundred Days of FDR
The
Hundred Days
The
New Deal: Measures for Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Successes
and failures of Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs
The Second New
Deal
Roosevelt
and the New Deal: Links to Personalities, Legislation, & Photographers
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
Outlining the New Deal
Program
Dr.
New Deal or Dr. Win-the-War?
The Republican
Opposition
INTERACTIVE
DIAGRAM: Opposition to the New Deal
The
Banking Acts
Civilian
Conservation Corps
Camp
Newspapers of the Civilian Conservation Corps
National
Park Service: CCC and the National Park Service
WITH THE CIVILIAN
CONSERVATION CORPS
CCC
in Utah - FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps
Civilian
Conservation Corps(CCC) Museum, Michigan Historical Center
She-She-She
Camps
Fair
Employment Act
Chronology of
the Farm Security Administration - more info above in the section on
agriculture.
Federal
Art Project - more info below in the ARTS section
History of FDA
Federal
Emergency Relief Administration
Federal
Securities Act
The
Federal Theatre Project - more info below in the ARTS section
Federal
Writers' Project - more info below in the ARTS section
The
1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
National
Housing Act
National
Labour Relations Act - commonly called the Wagner Act
National
Recovery Act (NRA) - "The Blue Eagle"
National
Industrial Recovery Act
National Youth
Administration
Work--Study--Live:
Resident Youth Centers of the NYA
Public Works
Administration
From the
Ground Up: Resettlement Administration
New Deal Network Photo
Gallery - Resettlement Camps - Resettlement
Projects
Social
Security Act - Social
Security Act excerpts
A Brief History of Social
Security
Pre-Social Security
history
Votes on passage of the
Social Security Act of 1935
Illustration of FDR
signing Social Security Act
Tennessee
Valley Authority
TVA: History
TVA: Electricity for All
The TVA and
Decentralization
TVA in Cartoons
Opposition to TVA
Works Projects
Administration
The
Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
WPA
Road-Building Project in South Carolina
Work Relief
Administration Press Conferences, Hopkins, 3/23/34
Work Projects
Administration (WPA) Poster Collection and Fine Prints
New
Deal Texans
Introduction: The Great
Depression and the New Deal
New Deal
Brings Social Reforms
War, Prosperity
and Depression
The New Deal and World
War
Roosevelt and the New
Deal
Hopkins
and the New Deal - Harry Hopkins, FDRs trusted advisor.
Georgetown:
The Harry L. Hopkins Papers - Outline
The
Two - or Three? - New Deals
What
New Deal Policies did Eleanor Roosevelt influence?
New Deal Cultural Programs
Inside
the New Deal
Center for New Deal Studies
The New Deal
Network: Online Resources - fantastic links on the 30s, FDR, and the
Depression.
New Deal Links: Research
Tools and Bibliographies
GAME:
USA New Deal - Beat 'da Bomb game
PEOPLE OF THE NEW DEAL
New Deal Personalities
FDR & THE SUPREME COURT
Constitutional Issues: Separation of Powers - FDR & the Supreme Court
Chief Justice Charles Hughes
Hugo Black
The New Deal Versus the Supreme Court: Separating Myth & Reality
FDR Cartoon Database: 1937- The Supreme Court
Roosevelt Fights Back
"Black Monday": Schechter and Beyond: FDR and the Supreme Court
“Younger and More Vigorous Blood”: FDR on the Judiciary
UNIONS AND STRIKES DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Labor Unions During the Great Depression and New Deal
Fair Employment Act
National Labour Relations Act - commonly called the Wagner Act
SECTION 7-A: The Clash Over the Most Disputed Clause in the Recovery Act
Investigating the attitudes toward labor unions in the 1930s
Will the Codes Abolish Child Labor?
Children Hurt at Work
The Shift in Child Labor
But the Children Are Earning
“Hearty Big Strong Men All Died”: The Lasting Impact of the Silicosis “Plague"
“Must a Fellow Wait to Die?”: Workers Write to Frances Perkins
“Eight Hours in the Forenoon, Eight Hours in the Afternoon”: An IWW Organizer
San Francisco and the General Strike
Mexican Working Women in the 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike, Introduction - Document List
The Missouri Sharecroppers Strike of 1939
“Clear Everything with Sidney”: Hillman’s Conservative Critics Say It with Limericks
FEDERALS ARTS PROJECTS OF THE WPA & FSA
Federal Art Project
The Federal Theatre Project
Federal Theatre Project
Federal Theatre Project Collection
The Performance of Race in the Federal Theatre Project
Federal Writers' Project
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
Voices from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project
Federal Writers' Project: Interview Excerpts
New Deal Cultural Programs
A New Deal for the Arts
Art Becomes Public Works
THE ART OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Public Art in the 1930s
Documenting the 1930s
New Frontiers in American Documentary Film
Exhibit: A New Deal for the Arts
Save the Arts Projects
Painting the American Scene: Artists Assess the Federal Art Project
Looking for America: The Index of American Design
Concerning Mural Painting
New Deal Muralists: "not in harmony with existing conditions"
“The Yeast which Makes the Bread Rise”: Hallie Flanagan on Drama as Politics
“Art Within Reach”: Federal Art Project Community Art Centers
THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT AND THE LIVING NEWSPAPER
NATIONAL NEW DEAL PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION (NNDPA) HOME PAGE
The WPA in Indiana: Virtual Exhibit Homepage
PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Documenting
the 1930s
New Deal Network
Photo Gallery
A
New Deal for the Arts
THE
ART OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Picturing
the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Bound
for Glory: America in Color - FSA/OWI 1939-43 in Color
New
Frontiers in American Documentary Film
Photographing
People of the Depression
Documentary Photography
Photography As A
Research Method
Photography as Factor in
Social Development
Out of One,
Many: Regionalism in FSA Photography
Photographs
from the FSA and OWI
MASTERS
OF PHOTOGRAPHY - American Scenes from the FSA
Chronology
of the Farm Security Administration
Photographs
from the FSA and OWI
The Farm
Security Administration
Farm Security
Administration
Every Picture Tells A Story
You Have Seen Their
Pictures
FSA/OWI B&W
Photographs - Color
Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page
MASTERS
of PHOTOGRAPHY - FSA Background information
Out of One,
Many: Regionalism in FSA Photography
Photographing
the Representative American: Margaret Bourke-White in the Depression - Margaret
Bourke-White Gallery
Age of
Lost Innocence: Photographs of Childhood Realities and Adult Fears During the
Great Depression
Stryker and the
FSA
The
Photographers: Roy Stryker
ROY
E. STRYKER COLLECTIONS
Walker
Evans Project
Walker Evans
Introduction
Walker
Evans
Walker Evans
(1903–1975) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Walker Evans'
Images
WALKER EVANS
(1903-1975)
The
Documentary Eye: Walker Evans
Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men
Evans' Images
for "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
Agee and Evans'
Great Experiement
James Agee:
Biography
The
History Place - Dorothea Lange Photos
Dorothea
Lange, Collections -- Oakland Museum of California
A Picture of
Humanity - Migrant Mother - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress)
Dorothea
Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security
Administration
One-Pager:
Analysis of Dorothea Lange's Photographs (Education at the Getty)
Dorothea
Lange Curriculum (Education at the Getty)
Russell
Lee's Photographs of Wheat Harvesting
Russell Lee,
Farm Security Administration
Other
Photographers of the FSA
A Mississippi
Portrait
FDR Cartoon
Dabatabase: The Farms Issue
New Deal Network
Photo Gallery-Farm-to-Market Roads
Picturing
Faith: Religious America in Government Photography, 1935-1943
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library & Museum: Photos of Great Depression & New Deal
WPA Photoessays
New Deal Network
Photo Gallery
WPA
PHOTOGRAPHERS
By the
People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
America's Great
Depression - Photos
Image
Gallery, USDA History Collection
USDA Special
Collections Site Map
USDA Photographs:
1937-1943
Thumbs,
FSA Labor maps, USDA History Collection
Propaganda &
Dreams, Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US
Photographs of
Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by the FSA/OWI
VARIOUS TOPICS AND LINKS RELATING TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Hoover on the Bonus Army, The Bonus Army of 1932, FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Bonus March - The Bonus Army
Keynesian economics - Boom and Depression
HUEY LONG: Sharing Our Wealth
INTERACTIVE DIAGRAM: Opposition to the New Deal
Inside the New Deal
Puerto Rican Needleworkers during the New Deal, Introduction
The Real Estate Industry Lobby and Public Housing in the 1930s
The Bum as Con Artist: An Undercover Account of the Great Depression
Lending a Hand: A Woman Remembers Hoboes of the 1930s
The Vagrant in Fiction: Emblematic American?
Always Lend a Helping Hand: Sevier Country, Utah, Remembers the Great Depression
“We Have Got a Good Friend in John Collier”: A Taos Pueblo Tries to Sell the Indian New Deal
Working Her Fingers to the Bone: Agnes Nestor’s Story
The New Deal and the Negro
Starving on Relief
New Deal, New Life
RURAL TEXAS WOMEN AT WORK, 1930-1960
Interview Excerpts: Making Do: Women and Work
The "Forgotten Women" of the Great Depression
Digital History - Children and the Great Depression
Toward A Better Living For Rural Texas Blacks, 1930-1960
The Great Depression in Arkansas
The Survey and the Progressive Ethos
Survey Graphic and the Depression: Efficiency and Expertise
CULTURAL OBJECTS: THE SOUTH IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
North By South/Great Migrations Page
AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 30s
American
Cultural History - 1930-1939
SnapShots -
America in the 1930s
1930s
Timeline
Events, Trends, and
People of the 1930s
Media History
Timeline: 1930s
American Culture in the
1930s
More on America in the
1930s
Despair and
Fantasy - Women's Fashions of the 1930s
Art
and Entertainment During the 1930s
Martha Graham and Modern
American Dance
Styling and design of
American automobiles throughout the 1930s.
Woody Guthrie and the
American Spirit
Woody
Guthrie: This Man is Your Myth: This Man is My Myth
This
Land is Your Land: Rural Music & the Depression
Hep,
Hot, & Headbanging: The Retro Rebirth of Swing
Jazz: Marking
Time in American Culture
Manufacturing
Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930's
1930s On
Film
American
Picture Palaces
It's
the Booze Talkin': Prohibition and the Gangster Film - Crime
Pays: The Hollywood Gangster from 1930-1938
Musicals
of the 1930's
Birth of
the Screwball Comedy - Screwball
Comedy
Capra,
Smith, and Doe - Frank
Capra and the American Ideals - Frank
Capra & The American myth
Charlie
Chaplin in the Machine Age
The
Marx Brothers and Identity Construction
The Savage
Genius: Louis Armstrong's Film Roles in the Depression
Mammy
Dearest: The Depiction of African-American House Servants in The Birth of a
Nation and Gone with the Wind
Iconic
Films of the Thirties
Moderntimes; Classic Film Pages
Hollywood's
Depression Age - Hollywood's
Conservative Age - Hollywood's
Golden Age - More info available on my Motion
Pictures, Movies, Film page.
The Student
Movement of the Thirties
BABE
RUTH: CONSTRUCTING A LEGEND
SLANG in
the Great Depression
From
Skyscrapers to Skulls: Georgia O'Keeffe Creates the "Native" American
1930s
In Print
Ideological
Conflicts in Absalom, Absalom! and Gone With the Wind home page
Fortune
Magazine in the 1930s
Urban
and Urbane: The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s
Cultural
Objects VI: Saturday Evening Post Cover Art
1930s:
Cartoons - IDENTITY
CRISIS: The Many Faces of the Man of Steel - George
Herrmiman's Krazy Kat
The Art
of Persuasion - Home
Art for
Trade's Sake: The Fusion of Commerce and Culture, 1927-1934
AS@UVA IS
ON THE AIR!
A
Gullible Nation? War of the Worlds Revisited
Amos 'n'
Andy in Black and White
The
Visitor in Your Living Room: Radio Advertising in the 1930s
A Day
in Radio
On
the Air: 1930s Serials
Old Time Radio - Radio Days: A
Soundbite History
The Cavalcade
Moves Forward: Examining the Myth and Reality of Hero Worship in American Radio
The rise of bakelite and
other plastics in the US during the 1930s
The Rise of the Bakelite
and Catalin Radio in the US during the 1930s
The World of Gertrude Stein -
biography of an early twentieth century author
Marian
Anderson: A Life in Song
The Seven
Lively Arts
VARIOUS 1930s TOPICS
Hugo Black and the KKK
Margie's 1930's and 1940's Web Links
NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939-1940
The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
Touring the 1930s American Roadscape
NARA 1930 Census Microfilm Locator - Welcome Page
Father Charles E. Coughlin & Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest
Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long, Huey "Kingfish" Long & "Share the Wealth", HUEY LONG: Sharing Our Wealth, Excerpts From Huey Long's "Second Autobiography", HueyLong, “He’s a Demagogue,That’s What He Is”: Hodding Carter on Huey Long, & The Assassination Of Senator Huey Long
Lindbergh kidnapping: The Lindbergh Case - The Trial of the Century & The Lindbergh Kidnapping
The Great Zeppelins, TheZeppelin Library, & Airships:The Zeppelin website,
Hindenburg Zeppelin, "Radio Days - Hindenburg", Old Radio Programs - Historical Speeches - The Hindenberg Airship Disaster, The Hindenburg Disaster
“Pachucos in the Making”: Roots of the Zoot
American Experience | Zoot Suit Riots
John Herbert Dillinger, American Experience | Public Enemy #1, & John Dillinger
LESTERM. GILLIS, aka: "Baby Face" Nelson & Baby Face Nelson
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
Bonnie and Clyde - For more, check out the section on the 20th Century on my Texas History
webpage.
THE KANSAS CITY MASSACRE & Pretty Boy Floyd and Kansas City Massacre
The Brady Gang
Organized Crime In America of the Thirties: Best Cellars
Thirst in America in the Late Twenties and Early Thirties: Prohibition
The American Experience | Hoover Dam
American Experience | The Hurricane of '38
Aimee Semple McPherson
SLANG in the Great Depression
American Humor: A Study of the National Character
FOR INFO ON THE 1940s & WORLD WAR II
American
History - Decade 1940 - 1949
Events, Trends, and
People of the 1940s
OUTLINE: American
Foreign Policy 1920-1940
CHART: American
Involvement in World War II
Roosevelt and the Coming of War
- War
and Recovery
Please, visit my World War II page.
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
CHART: Key Events in the American Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights in an Uncivil Society
The History of Jim Crow - segregation from the 1870s-1950s.
The Struggle for Civil Rights
The United States and Equal Rights, 1947-65
Early Civil Rights Struggles (1945-1955)
The Civil Rights Movement (1955-1965)
School Integration (1955-1975)
Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education
The Modern Civil rights Movement
USM Oral History Civil Rights Documentation Project
Lynching in America
The American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
Much more info on the struggle for Civil Rights & Human Rights can be found on my African Americans and U.S. Government pages.
Did you know? Sliced bread was patented by Mrs P. Ride, a mother of 5, on 1 April 1954.
COOL!!!!
***** RETRO-The 50s, 60s, 70s, 80, & 90s is a collection of my favorite links on everything you would ever want to know about the Nifty 50s, Groovy 60s, Far-Out 70s, Reagan 80s, & the Clinton 90s!!!!
Here are just a FEW of the sites available at the above link!
*** Popular Culture - from Antiquity to the 20th Century!
The Suburbanization of America: The Rise of the Patio Culture
Welcome to the Bad Fads Museum
The Sixties Pleasure Zone
Pop Culture
U.S. Popular Culture Notes
BABY BOOMERS!!!
For those born between 1946-1964!
For info, check out my RETRO-The 50s, 60s, 70s, & 80s page.
POP CULTURE
BGSU
Popular Culture Library: Welcome
*** Popular
Culture - from Antiquity to the 20th Century!
The Authentic History Center
Popular Culture:
Resources for Critical Analysis
NPR
: Pop Culture
American Popular Culture
American Popular
Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis
Pop Culture Madness - The
Eternal Frontier
PopCult Magazine: It's Cool!
Research resources
in Popular Culture
U.S. Popular Culture
Notes
Whole Pop Magazine Online
- Pop Culture, Cultural History, Games, Entertainment
Welcome to the Bad Fads Museum
Tables of
Contents for All Issues of Postmodern Culture
Images: A Journal of
Film and Popular Culture
Bob's Pop Culture Place
The
McDonaldization of Society
American Folk: folklore, folklife, folk
art, popular culture
CreatAbiliTOYS! - The Museum of
Advertising Icons
The American
Experience | The Quiz Show Scandal
Much more on Popular Culture can be found on my Motion Pictures, Movies, Film, Television & Misc. Fine Arts, and Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Swing
web pages.
COLD WAR
Did you know? A firm in Britain sold fall-out shelters for pets.
TIMELINE: Cold War
TIMELINE: Cold War Spies and Espionage
CNN - Cold War
Nuclear Files
Cold War: The Balance of Terror
THE U.S. AFTER WORLD WAR II: DOMESTIC ISSUES
The Cold War to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech" (1946)
Truman Library, Truman Doctrine Activity
THE EISENHOWER-KHRUSHCHEV YEARS
Cuba, Castro, Khrushchev and Kennedy
THE SOVIET UNION AND THE UNITED STATES
The United States after World War II: The Cold War
The Cold War and the 1950s: The Affluent Society
Cold War Museum
McCarthyism
The Anti-Communist Crusade and the Rise of McCarthyism
The Hollywood Blacklist
14 Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective
The End to the Cold War
Federation of American Scientists
Many more Cold War sites can be found on my Cold War - Korea - Vietnam - Desert Storm - Enduring Freedom - War in Iraq page! More sites relating to the Atomic bomb can be found on my Manhattan Project & the Bomb page!
POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS
Assassinations, Sixties Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum
Time to Cry, Sixties Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum
20th Cent. Political Assassinations - Political Assassinations
Political Assassination: The Violent Side of American Political Life
AARC - Assassination Archives and Research Center
AARC Public Library - JFK Assassination Reports and Records
Robert F. Kennedy Assasination (Summary)
The American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
Links for Political Assassinations
For more info on JFK, check out my Presidents page.
For more info on Malcolm X and MLK, Jr., check out my African Americans page.
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS & COMMUNICATIONS
The Computer Museum History Center Home Page
The Virtual Museum of Computing
Intel Museum Home Page
A History of the Microprocessor
CABLE & WIRELESS - A HISTORY
Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet
The Internet: Past, Present and Future - Internet & WWW History
Internet History and WWW History: Sources on the Net
Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms
Popular Culture -- COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION & CYBERCULTURES
Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: Legal Guide
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
CNET.com - Welcome to CNET!
ZDNet News: Page One
The Intellectual Property Law Server
World Intellectual Property Organization
(EFGA)Intellectual Property Issues
Copyright Issues on the Web
Internet cafes guide. Cybercafes all over the world.
Voice of the Shuttle: Cyberculture Page
Welcome to Tales of the Encrypted
Bill Gates house: Tech - NYCU - U.S. News Online
Welcome to NetAction
PCWorld.com - Bugs and Fixes: How to Spot Virus Hoaxes a Mile Off
PCWorld.com - Home Office: How to Spot an E-Mail Hoax
Webby Awards
Web Pages That Suck -- The web site version of the book
For more, check out the section above on media history or drop by my General World History page.
NASA & SPACE TRAVEL
TIMELINE:
NASA Space Program
***** Encyclopedia Astronautica is a
FANTASTIC site!!!!
American Experience | Race
to the Moon | PBS
Space Race
- Exhibition Home Page
The History of Space
Flight
NASA Human Spaceflight
NASA Homepage
Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum Home Page
Kennedy Space
Center Home Page
John F.
Kennedy Space Center - A Brief History of Rocketry
John
F. Kennedy Space Center - Historical Documents
Mercury
Project - Gemini
Program - Apollo
Program - Apollo
Soyuz Test Project - Skylab
Project - Space
Shuttles - International
Space Station
The
Apollo Program (1963 - 1972)
Smithsonian
Education - Apollo 11
Where Were You July 20, 1969?
Challenger Accident
NASA -
Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew
CNN.com: Lost - Space
Shuttle Columbia
The New Millennium Program -
from NASA
For more on the space program, visit the Astronomy and Space section on my Other Subjects page.
VIETNAM WAR
War in Vietnam
For much more, please visit my Cold War - Korea - Vietnam - Desert Storm - Enduring Freedom -
War in Iraq page.
WATERGATE
Real History Archives Watergate Collection
For more, visit the Nixon links on my Presidents page.
THREE MILE ISLAND - NUCLEAR POWER
The American Experience | Meltdown at Three Mile Island
HOSTAGES IN IRAN
The Hostage Crisis in Iran
Excerpts from an Iran Hostage's Diary
Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
THE IRANIAN: History; hostage crisis
Operation Eagle Claw
For more, check out Jimmy Carter on my Presidents page.
THE U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN BEIRUT
Beirut Memorial On Line
TERRORISM IN THE
U.S. AND THE WARS IN AFGHANISTAN & IRAQ.
For MUCH more info on terrorism and the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the wars in Afghanistan, and Iraq, check out
my War on Terrorism
page.
IRAN CONTRA SCANDAL
Iran/contra affair
Declassified documents on Iran and the U.S.
The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
The Iran-Contra Affair, 1983-1988
The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983-1988
Walsh Iran / Contra Report
For more, check out the Reagan and Bush (Senior) links on my Presidents
page.
VARIOUS
20TH CENTURY TOPICS
For events on specific events in specific states, try my
50 states page.
Architecture & Engineering: Great Buildings, Bridges, Highways, & Other Feats of Mathematical Genius
Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America
FS Architects' Links to
20th Century Architecture and Design
20th
Century American Architecture
Skylines
and Scrapers - worldwide highrise statistics
History
of the Shopping Center and Mall
Tacoma
Narrows Bridge and Galloping
Gertie
History of the
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Tacoma
Narrows Bridge-Design Failure Lessons
The Skyscaper's Page
NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS
Facts
about the Empire State Building
World
Trade Center - Minoru Yamasaki - Great Buildings Online
Built in
America - Teacher
Resources
"Fighting
Traffic"U.S. Transportation Policy & Urban Congestion, 1955-70
The American
Experience | Hoover Dam - The
Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
American
Experience | A Brilliant Madness - John Nash (A Beautiful Mind)
Digital
History - Science and Techology: The Engines of Our Ingenuity
For more,
check out the Architecture sections on my General
U.S.A. History, General
World History and Art &
Galleries pages.
Crime
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI - Most Wanted - The FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
FBI - Art Theft Program - Spotlight
History of the FBI
FBI History - Famous Cases
FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Introduction
FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Reading Room Index - Many, many documents of famous cases of the 20th century.
FBI - Kids & Youth Educational Page - History
Famous Trials of the 20th Century - UMKC School of Law - Prof. Douglas Linder
The Mississippi Burning Trial: United States vs. Cecil price et al. (1967)
The Trial of The Chicago Seven
Trial of Charles Manson
La Cosa Nostra: Index - Famous Mafiosi - Who Started the Mafia - Mafia Movies
The Crime Library: classic crime stories, stories about gangsters, outlaws
Warden Johnston's Alcatraz: 1933 to 1948
Alcatraz Escape
For more on law and crime, check out my U.S.
Government webpage.
Disasters!
The Worst Natural Disaster in US History: The 1900 Storm: Galveston, Texas - Handbook of Texas Online: GALVESTON HURRICANE OF 1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900 - Galveston Hurricane - The Galveston Hurricane of 1900
The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 - 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire - Triangle Fire - The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial
True Stories from the Titanic - More info on my World History page.
American Experience | Fatal Flood
American Experience | The Hurricane of '38
The Day the Clowns Cried: The Hartford Circus Fire - July 6, 1944 & Man Confesses to Setting Circus Fire
The American Experience | Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Internet Disaster Information Center
The American Experience | Meltdown at Three Mile Island
For more natural disaster information, check out the Geography section on my Maps, Flags, Timelines page. For man-made disasters, check out specific time periods/topics on my Table of Contents page.
Education
America
at School , 1894-1915
History of
Education: Selected Moments of the 20th Century
SCHOOL: The Story of
American Public Education
Education Week - Independent K-12
education insight!
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Home Page
Education Statistics at a
Glance-Publications Tables of Contents
FindLaw:
Legal Subjects: Education Law: Databases and Statistics
For more, check out my Teachers and Education page.
Entertainment
- Art, Music, Movies, TV, & Amusement Parks
America
at Leisure, 1894-1915
Will Rogers
American Variety Stage:
Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
Talkin' Broadway - The
History of the Great White Way
Vaudeville
Producers Library
Service: Vaudeville and Burlesque
Music Hall, Vaudville
and Burlesque
History of Burlesque
- Burlesque
The American
Experience | Houdini - Houdini
Exhibition
American Popular Music
1900 to 1950 - 1950 to
1990s
Digital
History - Historical Music
Digital
History - Hollywood's America - Digital
History - Hollywood as History - Digital
History - Chronology of Film History - MUCH more on my Motion
Pictures web page.
Art
and Entertainment, 1945-1968
Television
Finds a Home
History
of Radio and Television - History
of Radio - History
of TV - Network
TV - Split
Personality Television - Satellite
& Cable Television - Digital
TV
Recording
Technology History links - Television
Sources - MUCH more on my TV &
Misc. Fine Arts web page.
The American
Experience | The Quiz Show Scandal
Amusement
Park and Roller Coaster Links
Yesterland.com: Disneyland's
discontinued attractions
Werner's "Not
Disney" Theme Parks, Fairs, and Amusement Parks
The world's
best theme parks
Werner's Unofficial
Disney Park Links
Defunct Amusement Parks Home Page
Six Flags
Six Flags Over Texas - the first
and best Six Flags park.
Welcome to the State Fair of Texas
Schlitterbahn Waterpark Resort,
New Braunfels, Texas - voted the #1 Water Park in the U.S. by the Travel
Channel - my favorite Texas vacation destination!
The American
Experience | Coney Island
Pan American Exposition 1901 Buffalo
Panama-California
Exposition homepage
Terry's 1904 World's Fair Page
World's Fairs and
International Expositions
For more on U.S. amusement parks, check out my General
U.S.A. History page!
For MUCH more, check out my Art
& Galleries, Music, Motion
Pictures, Movies, Film, Literature
and Drama, Television & Misc.
Fine Arts, and History of
Sports and Entertainment pages.
Fashion,
Art, & Design
Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum - Great designs for everyday living!
Vintage Vixen 20th
Century Fashion History
Welcome to the Bad Fads Museum
History
of the Shopping Center and Mall
For MUCH more, check out my Art
& Galleries and Fashion/Food/Fun
pages.
Food
For info on food, candy and other sweet things, visit my General
U.S.A. History and FOOD IN
HISTORY & AROUND THE WORLD pages.
Foreign
Policy & Diplomacy
***** Vincent Ferraro, Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy
1937-1945: Diplomacy of the Second World War
1946-1968: Diplomacy and the Cold War
1969-1989: Diplomacy of Detente and the Waning of the Cold War
1990-Present: Diplomacy in a Multipolar World
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914
Digital History - The Politics of Oil
Digital History - Terrorism in Historical Perspective
More info available on my U.S. Government page.
Labor
in the 20th Century
America
at Work, 1894-1915
TIMELINE:
Labor Movement
Labor and
the Workers' Search for Power
The Bread and Roses Strike of
1912
A History of American Sweatshops,
1820 - Present
The Triangle
Shirtwaist Company Fire
Excerpt
from Out of the Sweatshop: 'My First Job'
Heaven Will
Protect the Working Girl (Immigration & Sweatshops)
The
History Place - Child Labor in America
Samuel Gompers: First
President of the American Federation of Labor
The
Anthracite Coal Strike
Eugene V.
Debs: an American paradox
The Battle of Matewan
Matewan Mining
Life
Labor
Unions During the Great Depression and New Deal
Minority
Families Moved from the South to the North for Economy
Cesar E.
Chavez fights for the Migrant Workers!
PBS - STORE WARS: When Wal-Mart
Comes To Town
For more on Labor History, check out specific time periods on my Table
of Contents page and the Labor section on my U.S.
Government page.
Religion
The Twentieth Century
- Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
For more, check out my General
U.S.A. History page or specific time period pages.
Sport
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Boys of Summer
African
Americans Integrate Sports
For MUCH more, check out my General
U.S.A. History & History
of Sports & Entertainment pages.
Scandal,
covert actions, & conspiracy
The National Security Archive
History House: Stories: LSD and the CIA
Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup in Chile
Honduran Military CIA Reports
Top Secret Kissinger Transcripts
U.S. POLICY IN GUATEMALA, 1966-96
Info on Iran/Contra above in its own section.
For more, check out my U.S.
Government page.
Truly
Miscellaneous
Miss
Abigail's Time Warp Advice - Parent's Advice books from 1822 to 1977
Fast facts
Did you know? - You're
at the right place! - Did you know? site map
Digital
History - Ethnic America
American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee: Education
Famous Arab
Americans
PEOPLE LIKE US: Social
Class in America
History
of the Shopping Center and Mall
The
Youth Rebellion against the System in the 1960s
Wall
Street and Reagan's America
Globalization,
Reaganomics, and the Decline of the American Dream in the 1980s
ThinkQuest
: Library : A Reminiscence Of The Nineties
American
Humor: A Study of the National Character
History Matters: The U.S. Survey
on the Web
Digital
History - The History of Private Life
The
Almost Great Society: The 1960s
Newspaper
Production 1892-1992
The American
Experience | Around the World in 72 Days with Nelly Bly
Turn-of-the-Century
Child: Examine their Faces
The Election of 1912: Competing
Visions for America
Twentieth Century
Atlas - Death Tolls
Death
rates in the 20th century
Postwar
United States, 1945-1968
The American Experience |
Alone on the Ice
Over 70
Years of Bell Labs Innovation: 1925 to today
American Experience | The
Pill
Believe it or not, I am always getting asked about License
Plates of the World
A Mencken Sample - On
Democracy
The H. L. Mencken Page
Pluralism and
Unity
The
Second Industrial Revolution
Eugenics Archive
time-warp Archive of Vintage
Technology Through the Decades
The Use
of the Land: Perspectives on Stewardship, Nature Transformed
Magic, Illusion, Detection
- The Saloon
The Tax History Project at Tax
Analysts
The United States and
Change, to 1910
"Gypsies"
in the United States
German Corner - Historical
Essays and other Material - Teaching
Resources
CNN - Income
gap of richest and poorest widens for U.S. families
Cleave Books -
Specialist Calculators
The Top 100
This-and-Thats of the 20th Century
AP list of the 100 top news
stories of the 20th Century
20th century
- 21st century - weblinks-The
New Millenium-The 21c
AP US
History Web Links & Assignment Page
Fact Monster: Online Almanac,
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help
World War
I & II, the Twenties, Depression & New Deal, 1914-1945
The Cold
War, Vietnam & Civil Rights, 1945-1980
U.S. Popular
Culture Notes Index
GAME:
The USA 1918-1945 - Hoop Shoot
FOR MORE INFO, CHECK OUT
General U.S.A. History
50 States
TEXAS
From Colonies to Revolution
19th Century America
U.S. Government
Presidents
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