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An
Overview of American History (flash movie)
Time Machine - Journey back to the past in a 21st century
time machine
Foner Chapter 15, Reconstruction
1865-1877
Foner Chapter
16, America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: Ulysses S. Grant (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Rutherford B. Hayes (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Jamese A. Garfield (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Chester Alan Arthur (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Grover Cleveland (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Benjamin Harrison (from White House Web site)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Rockefellers (investigate, learn, watch
the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Buffalo Bill (investigate, learn, watch the
film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Annie Oakley (investigate, learn,
watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: We Shall Remain: Geronimo (investigate,
learn, watch the trailer, watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee (investigate,
learn, watch the trailer, watch the film)
- Eyewitness
to History: Massacre At Wounded Knee (eyewitness
Philip Wells was a mixed-blood Sioux who served as
an interpreter for the Army and later recounted what
he saw)
- The
Wounded Knee Museum
- The
Life and Trial of Wyatt Earp/The Shoot-Out at the OK
Corral Trial
- Photographs
- George Armstrong Custer, Native American chiefs,
more
- Sitting
Bull - Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man under
whom the Lakota tribes united in their struggle for survival
on the northern plains
- Chief
Joseph - authentic Native American hero, text and photo
- Crazy
Horse - visionary Native American leader, legendary
warrior
- Chief
Big Foot - leader of the Miniconjou band massacred
at Wounded Knee Creek
- How
Women Won the Right to Vote
- The Slaughter House Cases (1873)
- The
Rockefellers Corner the Market (play the game)
- Rockefeller
and the Standard Oil Monopoly
- Social
Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism
- Emmeline
Wells, "Is It Ignorance?" from The
Woman's Exponent, July 1, 1883 -- a defense of plural marriage
by a leading feminist of her era.
- Photographs
- settlers, Native Americans, and more
- Karl
Marx: A Failed Vision of History
- "At
the Hands of Persons Unknown": Lynching in America
- Charles Guiteau Trial (1881-82 - assassin of President
Garfield)
- The
Strenuous Life of the Tammany District Leader
- Thomas
Nast - the "Prince of Caricaturists"
- "The
World of Thomas Nast" by Morton Keller
- Immigrant
Rights Throughout History (interactive quiz)
- Eight
Anarchists - The Haymarket Bombing *
- The
Haymarket Riot Trial
- Sockless
Jerry Simpson
- AC/DC:
What's the Difference? Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse
- First
Lady Biography: Lucy
Hayes, Lucretia
Garfield, Ellen
Arthur, Frances Cleveland
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- Timeline:
Events in History from 1870-1880
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Jim
Crow Image Gallery (photographic history of the
impact of Jim Crow laws and official segregation)
Foner Chapter
17, Freedom’s Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball
- The
Debate Over Hawaii and an American Overseas Empire
- Frederick
Jackson Turner - famed historian, he declared the
frontier closed
- Presidential
Biography: Grover Cleveland (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: William McKinley (from White House
Web site)
- The
Significance of the Frontier in American History - Frederick
Jackson Turner's classic -- and controversial--
analysis
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Chicago, City of the Century (links
to historic Chicago)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Decades of Immigrants (immigrant
groups to Chicago since 1850)
- Immigrant
Rights Throughout History (interactive quiz)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Mark Hanna and Marcus A. Hanna at Ohio
History Central
- Immigrants,
Ellis Island, Angel Island (video
clips)
- Library
of Congress: The Life of a City: Early Films of New
York, 1898-1906 (text, photos, vintage motion pictures)
- Library
of Congress: The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (text, photos, vintage motion pictures)
- First
Lady Biography: Caroline
Harrison, Frances
Cleveland, Ida
McKinley
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- The
Trial of Lizzie Borden, 1893
- Destruction
of the USS Maine battleship (text, photos)
- The
Rough Riders (text, photos) and Chronology of Spanish-American
War
- The
Spanish-American War (video series - History Channel)
- Battle
Lines: Letters from America's Wars
- Text
and Photographs - Massacre at Wounded Knee and more
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- Timeline:
Events in History from 1880-1890
- Timeline:
Events in History from 1890-1900
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Jim
Crow Image Gallery (photographic history of the
impact of Jim Crow laws and official segregation)
Foner Chapter
18, The Progressive Era, 1900-1916
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: Theodore Roosevelt (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: William Howard Taft (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Woodrow Wilson (from White House
Web site)
- "This
Great Enterprise": Theodore Roosevelt and
the Panama Canal
- Aviation
Firsts (video)
- Historic
Vaudeville Acts, 1898-1910 - part 1 (vintage motion
pictures)
- 1906
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (video)
- Library
of Congress: The Last Days of a President:
Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition,
1901 (text, photos, vintage motion pictures)
- Library
of Congress: Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times
on Film (text, photos, vintage motion pictures)
- William
F. Cody, Life and Adventures of "Buffalo
Bill"
- Library
of Congress: Before and After the Great Earthquake and
Fire: Early Films of San Francisco,
1897-1916 (text, photos, vintage motion pictures)
- Library
of Congress: Inside an American Factory: Films of the
Westinghouse Works, 1904 (text, photos, vintage motion
pictures)
- Library
of Congress: Origins of American Animation, 1900-1920 (text, photos, vintage motion pictures)
- Women's Fight for the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment (from
Professor Douglas Linder at UMKC)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Grand Central (investigate, learn, watch the film)
- Unforgivable
Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (heavyweight
champion boxer)
- Library
of Congress: America at School, America
at Work,
America
at Leisure (text, vintage motion pictures)
- Library
of Congress: Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular
Entertainment, 1870-1920 (text, sound recordings, motion
pictures, playscripts)
- The
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911
- Jane
Addams, Progressivism, and Woman Suffrage
- Time
Magazine 100: Builders and Titans: Henry Ford
- The
Income Tax Amendment: Most Thought It Was a Great
Idea in 1913
- Educating
European Immigrant Children Before World War I
- Juvenile
Justice: What Should We Do With Children Who Break
the Law?
- One
Big Union—One Big Strike: The Story of the Wobblies
- The
Bill Haywood Trial, 1907
- The
Leo Frank Trial, 1913
- Digital
Stories about American History: The Industrial Workers
of the World (video)
- Pancho
Villa (video - musical tribute in Spanish)
- Reflections
on Black History: Black Entertainers on Vaudeville by
Thomas Fleming
- Reflections
on Black History: Marcus Garvey Comes to Harlem by
Thomas Fleming
- Can
You Make Ends Meet in Brooklyn in the Early 1900s? (play the game)
- Save
Our Ship (play the game)
- Win
the Election of 1912 (play the game)
- First
Lady Biography: Edith
Roosevelt, Helen
Taft, Ellen Wilson
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- Timeline:
Events in History from 1900-1917
- The
Silent Movie Multiplex (readings and multimedia)
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Jim
Crow Image Gallery (photographic history of the
impact of Jim Crow laws and official segregation)
- The
Picture Post Card Craze of the Early 20th Century
Foner Chapter
19, Safe for Democracy, World War One 1916-1920
Foner Chapter
20, From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties,
1920-1932
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: Langston Hughes Poetry (video)
- Presidential
Biography: Warren G. Harding (from White House Web
site)
- Presidential
Biography: Calvin Coolidge (from White House Web
site)
- Presidential
Biography: Herbert Hoover (from White House Web
site)
- Sex,
Crime, and Jazz Age Journalism
- Popular
Culture and History, 1920s
- The
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, 1921
- "Jazz":
A Film by Ken Burns (text, photos, audio samples and
more)
- The
History of Swing Music - listen to "Tuxedo
Junction" and Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean
a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
- Harlem
1900-1940: An African-American Community
- Paul
Robeson: About the Actor
- Clash
of Cultures: The New Woman
- Time
Magazine 100: Leaders and Revolutionaries: Margaret
Sanger
- The
Life of Henry Ford and his publication, "The
International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem" (warning: it's extremely
anti-Semitic, as was Henry Ford)
- Prohibition:
A Case Study of Progressive Reform
- The
Alcohol Prohibition Era (text, short film)
- Prohibition:
To Drink or Not to Drink (video)
- Budweiser
Prohibition Repeal Announcement (video)
- Clash
of Cultures: Prohibition
- "Rubber
Legs" Al Norman busts a move (video)
- The
Silent Movie Multiplex (readings and multimedia)
- The
Black Sox Trial, 1921
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Crash of 1929 (investigate, learn,
watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Sister Aimee (investigate, learn,
watch the film)
- The
Scopes Trial: Who Decides What Gets Taught in the
Classroom?
- The
Scopes Trial (from the Famous Trials Web site by Prof.
Douglas Linder at UMKC)
- Clash
of Cultures: The Scopes Trial
- “Inherit
the Wind” (review of the 1960 film)
- "Inherit
the Wind" - famous speech from the film: Colonel Drummond
Interrogates Matthew Brady on the Scientific Authority
of the Bible (watch the video)
- Library
of Congress: Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge
Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (pamphlets,
photos, sound files, legislative documents, vintage
films and more)
- Warner
Brothers: From the Silent Era to Franchise Films (video
- see "Early WB History," "The Shattered Silence,"
"Breaking the Code, "Mob Rule")
- Time
Magazine 100: Heroes and Icons: Charles Lindbergh
- Reflections
on Black History: The Klan Marches in California by Thomas
Fleming
- Reflections
on Black History: Jim Crow in 1920s California by Thomas
Fleming
- Reflections
on Black History: Job Discrimination in the '20s by Thomas
Fleming
- Reflections
on Black History: A Potential Race Riot by Thomas
Fleming
- Reflections
on Black History: The Great Experiment by Thomas
Fleming
- First
Lady Biography: Florence
Harding, Grace
Coolidge, Lou Hoover
- Herbert
Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on link to
video, "The Upbuilding of Prosperity," 1928 Herbert
Hoover biographical film, and link to video, "Hoover
family playing in the snow at Rapidan Camp."
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- Wasting
Away in Hooverville
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Jim
Crow Image Gallery (photographic history of the
impact of Jim Crow laws and official segregation)
Foner Chapter
21, The New Deal, 1932-1940
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (from White House
Web site)
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Vote 101 - click on "Vote
101" tab, click on the small photo of President
Reagan, then find the links to these short videos: "Transfer
of Power" - "Vote Tech" - "The
Electoral College" - The Inauguration" - "Primaries,
Caucuses and Conventions"
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Great Moments from the
Campaign Trail - click on "Great Moments" tab,
then find links to the short videos
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Famous Ads - click
on "Famous Ads" tab, then "Campaign
Spots," and find links to the campaign advertisements
- Popular
Culture and History, 1930s
- Oklahoma's
Cherokee Cowboy
- The
History of the Pendergast Crime Family and Political
Machine
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Presidents: FDR (watch the film)
- Time
Magazine 100: Leaders and Revolutionaries: John Maynard
Keynes
- The
Great Depression (video clips)
- "This
Land is Your Land" -
(listen to the song written and performed by Woody
Guthrie)
- What
Happened to Amelia Earhardt (video)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence (video)
- What
is the Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps?
- Dust
Bowl Exodus: How Drought and the Depression Took
Their Toll
- The
Dust Bowl of the 1930s
- Dust
Bowl Exodus: How Drought and the Depression Took
Their Toll
- Today's financial problems pale in comparison to Great
Depression
- FDR
Tries to "Pack" the Supreme Court
- FDR
and the Court-Packing Controversy (documentary
video, the U.S. Supreme Court online)
- Franklin
Roosevelt - Political Cartoons
- The
Time Magazine 100: Elearnor Roosevelt
- The
Time Magazine 100: Edwin Hubble
- The
Migrant Experience
- News
Analysis: The Evolving History of Organized Labor (listen,
learn)
- How
Welfare Began in the United States
- The
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Case
- The
Hindenberg Disaster (video)
- The
Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936 (text, multimedia)
- Time
Magazine 100: Scientists and Thinkers: Philo Farnsworth
- Time
Magazine's "Person of the Century": Albert
Einstein
- Reflections
on Black History: Black Society in the 1930s by Thomas
Fleming
- First
Lady Biography: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin
D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on link to
video, "Warm Springs," and link to video "Fighting President."
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign
of 1932 (video)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- The
New Hard Times: Tell Your Own Story - pick up
your own video camera and record the memories and
lessons from the generation that lived through the
Great Depression (video)
- Computer
History Museum (text, photos, interactive exhibits)
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Jim
Crow Image Gallery (photographic history of the
impact of Jim Crow laws and official segregation)
- Walker
Evans Revolutionizes Documentary Photography and the
New
York Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition of His
Picture Postcards (photography of the early Twentieth
Century)
Foner Chapter
22, Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945
Foner Chapter
23, The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: Harry S. Truman (from White
House Web site)
- Harry
Truman, Leader of the Freeway
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Vote 101 - click on "Vote
101" tab, click on the small photo of President
Reagan, then find the links to these short videos: "Transfer
of Power" - "Vote Tech" - "The
Electoral College" - The Inauguration" - "Primaries,
Caucuses and Conventions"
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Great Moments from the
Campaign Trail - click on "Great Moments" tab,
then find links to the short videos
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Famous Ads - click
on "Famous Ads" tab, then "Campaign
Spots," and find links to the campaign advertisements
- Popular
Culture and History, 1940s
- Popular
Culture and History, 1950s
- The
United Nations: Fifty Years of Keeping the Peace
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Presidents: Harry S Truman (investigate,
learn, watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Lobomotist (investigate, learn,
watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (investigate,
learn, watch the film)
- The
International Military Tribunal for Germany (Original
documents, Nuremburg Trials)
- Abott
and Costello - Who's on First? (watch the comedy routine
by the most popular comedy team of the 1940s)
- U.S.
History Timeline: The Cold War
- The
Cold War (video series - the History Channel)
- The
Truman Doctrine - speech by President Truman to Congress,
1947 (text)
- NSC-68 - the de-classified secret document that outlined the
foreign and national defense policy of the United States
toward the Soviet empire during the Cold War
- CIA
Secret Experiments during the Cold War (text, photos,
video)
- The
Korean War (video series - History Channel)
- Battle
Lines: Letters from America's Wars
- The
Cold War: A Brief History - with Media Gallery
- Cold
War Policies 1945-1991 (text, pbotos: read sections
titled "Negotiation 1945," "Demonstrations 1946," "Containment
1947-1949")
- Race for the Hydrogen Bomb
- “The
Manchurian Candidate” (review of the film)
- American
Experience: The Living Weapon (investigate, learn,
watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: A Class Apart (investigate, learn,
watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Polio Crusade (investigate,
learn, watch the film)
- Warner
Brothers: From the Silent Era to Franchise Films (video
- see "Darkness Falls")
- Films of the Cold War: 1948-1990
- Red Scare: A Filmography
- Time
Magazine 100: Builders and Titans: Walt Disney
- Library
of Congress: Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture
in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 (essays, audio files,
film and photos)
- First
Lady Biography: Bess Truman
- Harry
S Truman Library and Museum
- The
Truman Doctrine (video - President Truman speech)
- The
Berlin Air Lift: the story of a great achievement (video)
and The
Berlin Airlift (text) and Operation Little Vittles
and the Berlin Candy Bomber
- The
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- The
Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Alliance System (text)
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on link to
video, "Truman in Key West, Florida," and link to video "Man
From Independence."
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- The
Alger Hiss Story and The
Alger Hiss Trials
- The
Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, 1951
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- Computer
History Museum (text, photos, interactive exhibits)
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Jim
Crow Image Gallery (photographic history of the
impact of Jim Crow laws and official segregation)
- The
History of Rock 'n' Roll - and a second Web site,
History of
Rock and Roll - then listen to Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" and"Johnny
B Good," Elvis Presley's 1954 hit single
"That's All Right" -
and "Kicks" in the
1960s by Paul Revere and the Raiders
Foner Chapter
24, An Affluent Society, 1953–1960
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower (from White
House Web site)
- The
Conservative 1950s - music, fashion, entertainment,
teen culture, the lack of activism
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Vote 101 - click on "Vote
101" tab, click on the small photo of President
Reagan, then find the links to these short videos: "Transfer
of Power" - "Vote Tech" - "The
Electoral College" - The Inauguration" - "Primaries,
Caucuses and Conventions"
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Great Moments from the Campaign
Trail - click on "Great Moments" tab,
then find links to the short videos
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Famous Ads - click on "Famous
Ads" tab, then "Campaign Spots," and
find links to the campaign advertisements
- "Let
Us Reason Together" - Lyndon Johnson, Master
Legislator
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Living Weapon (watch the film)
- Cold
War Policies 1945-1991 (text, pbotos: read section
titled "Coercion 1950-1968")
- Warner
Brothers: From the Silent Era to Franchise Films (video
- see "Crisis in Paradise" and "Arias for Anthropomorphs")
- The
Vietnam War (video series - History Channel)
- American
Bandstand Remembered : Part One
- Popular Culture and History, 1950s
- Mexican Immigrant Labor History
- First
Lady Biography: Mamie Eisenhower
- The
Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
- Joe
Kittinger Becomes World's Fastest Human (video)
- X-15
is World's Fastest Aircraft (video)
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on links
to videos, "Campaign 1952," and "Eisenhower World
War II Composite."
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Barbie
Turns 50 (photo essay)
- The
Civil Rights Movement (video series - History Channel)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- Nixon, Khrushchev And A Story Of Cold War Love
- Computer
History Museum (text, photos, interactive exhibits)
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Jim
Crow Image Gallery (photographic history of the
impact of Jim Crow laws and official segregation)
Foner Chapter
25, The Sixties, 1960–1968
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: John F. "Jack" Kennedy (from
White House Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Lyndon B. Johnson (from
White House Web site)
- The
Race to the Moon (video)
- JFK
in History: The Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961 and The
Bay of Pigs (text, photos)
- President
John F. Kennedy - Cuban Missile Crisis (video)
- JFK
in History: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 and
Kennedy
Addresses Nation on Cuban Missile Crisis (video)
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Vote 101 - click on "Vote
101" tab, click on the small photo of President
Reagan, then find the links to these short videos: "Transfer
of Power" - "Vote Tech" - "The
Electoral College" - The Inauguration" - "Primaries,
Caucuses and Conventions"
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Great Moments from the
Campaign Trail - click on "Great Moments" tab,
then find links to the short videos
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Famous Ads - click
on "Famous Ads" tab, then "Campaign
Spots," and find links to the campaign advertisements
- The
Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson and The Time Magazine
100: Rachel Carson
- The
Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience
on Campus
- Time
Magazine 100: Leaders and Revolutionaries: Martin
Luther King, Jr.
- President
John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address, January 20,
1961 (watch the video, read text)
- The
Vietnam War (video series - History Channel)
- Battle
Lines: Letters from America's Wars
- “Letter
From A Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
- The
Civil Rights Movement (video series - History
Channel)
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- The Voting Rights Acts of 1965
- Civil Rights History Comes Full Circle In Alabama
- The
Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965
- also called the Moynihan Report)
- Loving
v. Virginia (1967 - state laws banning interracial
marriage)
- The
Disciples of Hatred, In Their Own Words
- Newsreel
Reports: Assassination of President Kennedy
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Presidents: Lyndon Johnson (watch
the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Summer of Love (investigate, learn, watch
the film)
- PBS:
The Sixties
- Time
Magazine 100: Heroes and Icons: Jackie Robinson
- Time
Magazine 100: Scientists and Thinkers: Rachel Carson
- Time
Magazine 100: Heroes and Icons: Muhammad Ali
- Time
Magazine 100: Artists and Entertainers: Bob Dylan
- The
Sixties: Photo Archive by Robert Altman
- The
Lenny Bruce Trial, 1964
- The
"Mississippi Burning" Trial, 1967
- One
Man's Ambivalent Retreat From His Racist Past.pdf
- Popular
Culture and History, 1960s
- Cold
War Policies 1945-1991 (text, pbotos: read section
titled "Coercion 1950-1968")
- Wallace
in the Schoolhouse Door (George Wallace - Alabama
Governor, racist/segregationist presidential candidate
- read, listen, learn)
- Jukebox: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
- First
Lady Biography: Jackie
Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson
- John
F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
- Lyndon
Baines Johnson Library and Museum
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on links
to videos, "The Kennedys' Atoka Retreat with Guest
Ben Bradlee," and "Profiles in Courage Discussion."
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on link to
video, "Lady Bird Home Movie # 3—1941 Senate
Race," and "Morning Dawns as LBJ Dresses in White House Private
Residence"
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- Computer
History Museum (text, photos, interactive exhibits)
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Jim
Crow Image Gallery (photographic history of the
impact of Jim Crow laws and official segregation)
- The
Olympic Games in Mexico City, 1968 (text, multimedia)
- Histories
of the Internet (links to information about the "internets," as
GeorgeW. would say
Foner Chapter
26, The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969–1988
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: Richard M. Nixon (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Gerald R. Ford (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Jimmy Carter (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Ronald Reagan (from White House
Web site)
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Vote 101 - click on "Vote
101" tab, click on the small photo of President
Reagan, then find the links to these short videos: "Transfer
of Power" - "Vote Tech" - "The
Electoral College" - The Inauguration" - "Primaries,
Caucuses and Conventions"
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Great Moments from the
Campaign Trail - click on "Great Moments" tab,
then find links to the short videos
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Famous Ads - click
on "Famous Ads" tab, then "Campaign
Spots," and find links to the campaign advertisements
- Representative
Barbara Jordan speaks on the Articles of Impeachment
against President Richard Nixon, August, 1974 (watch
the video, read the text)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: Test Tube Babies (watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Presidents: Richard M. Nixon (watch
the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Presidents: Jimmy Carter (watch
the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Presidents: Ronald Reagan (watch
the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Iran-Contra Affair
- The
Cold War (video series - the History Channel)
- The
Vietnam War (video series - History Channel)
- Digital
Stories about American History: The
My Lai Massacre (Vietnam War) (video)
- The My Lai Courts-Martial, 1970
- Popular
Culture and History, 1970s
- Popular
Culture and History, 1980s
- Fifty
Years of Coca-Cola Advertisements: 1971 "Hilltop" commercial
with an international group of young people on an Italian
hilltop singing "I'd
Like to Buy the World a Coke" (video - Real Player)
- Time
Magazine's 100: Heroes and Icons: Harvey Milk
- The Leonard Peltier Trial, 1977
- The
Trial of John Hinckley, 1982
- Falwell v Flynt Trial, 1984
- Targeting
Gaddafi and Hitting
the Source, 1986
- A
History of Key Abortion Rulings of the U.S. Supreme
Court
- Cold
War Policies 1945-1991 (text, pbotos: read sections
titled "Detente 1968-1980," "Confrontation
1980-1985" and "Glasnost 1985-1989")
- Reagan,
Class and Organized Labor: “One Of The Most Damaging
Presidents In American History” (read, listen, learn)
- Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man
- First
Lady Biography: Pat
Nixon, Betty
Ford, Rosalynn
Carter, Nancy Reagan
- Nixon
Presidential Library and Museum
- Gerald
R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
- Jimmy
Carter Library and Museum
- Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library
- The
Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 1984 (text, multimedia)
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on links
to videos, "Exclusive Interview with Nixon Advisor
and Speechwriter,
Pat Buchanan," "Richard Nixon: Portrait of a President,"
and "H. R. Haldeman—Super-8 Collection—China #1."
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on links
to videos, "President Ford Hosts Astronauts/Cosmonauts to
Annual Alexandria Firefighters Crab Festival," and "Gerald
R. Ford Election-Eve Show."
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on links
to videos, "The Camp David Accords," and "President Carter
in Plains, Georgia."
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on links
to videos, "Trip to West Germany—The Reagans Arrive at the
Berlin Wall," and "White House Television (WHTV) Footage
of President Reagan at Rancho Del Cielo."
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- Computer
History Museum (text, photos, interactive exhibits)
- Three
Mile Island (nearly disastrous nuclear incident)
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- Histories
of the Internet (links to information about the "internets,"
as GeorgeW. would say)
Foner Chapter
27, Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989–2000
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: George Herbert Walker Bush (from White
House Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: William J. Clinton (from White House Web
site)
- Operation
Desert Storm - The Persian Gulf War
- Operation
Desert Storm: Ten Years After (National Security
Archive Electronic Briefing Book)
- The
Culture Wars (defined)
- Pat
Buchanan's "Cultural War" speech to the Republican
National Convention, 1992 - part
1 - part
2 - part
3 - and the
Finale (watch the videos, read the text)
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Vote 101 - click on "Vote
101" tab, click on the small photo of President
Reagan, then find the links to these short videos: "Transfer
of Power" - "Vote Tech" - "The
Electoral College" - The Inauguration" - "Primaries,
Caucuses and Conventions"
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Great Moments from the
Campaign Trail - click on "Great Moments" tab,
then find links to the short videos
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Famous Ads - click
on "Famous Ads" tab, then "Campaign
Spots," and find links to the campaign advertisements
- The Republican Party's Contract with America (1994)
- Popular
Culture and History, 1990s
- Tower
Terror and A
Case of Dumb Luck - bombs
set off in World Trade Center basement parking garage,
1993
- The
O.J. Simpson Trial, 1995
- The
Olympic Games in Atlanta, 1996 (video, multimedia)
- The
Blood of Innocents: The Oklahoma City Bombing, 1995
- Oklahoma City Bombing Trial
(Timothy McVeigh Trial), 1997
- The Impeachment Trial of
President William Clinton, 1999
- FRONTLINE:
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (investigate,
learn, watch the film)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Presidents: George H.W. Bush (investigate,
learn, watch the film)
- FRONTLINE:
Waco: The Inside Story (readings, multimedia)
- Seeking
Asylum in the U.S.
- Immigrant
Rights Throughout History (interactive quiz)
- Cold
War Policies 1945-1991 (text, pbotos: read sections
titled "Revolution 1989-1991)
- First
Lady Biography: Barbara
Bush, Hillary
Clinton
- George
Bush Presidential Library and Museum
- William
J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
- The Impeachment Trial of
President William Clinton, 1999
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on links
to videos, "Dana Carvey Gives White House Holiday Performance,"
and "President and Mrs. Bush View Cherry Blossoms."
- Presidential
Libraries: History Uncovered (click on links
to videos, "President Clinton and Russian President Yeltsin
at Hyde Park," and "President Clintons Remarks to the Church
of God in Christ Annual Convention."
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- FRONTLINE:
Hand of God (investigate, learn, watch the
film)
- Battle
Lines: Letters from America's Wars
- The
Life of Al Gore: An occasional series of articles on
Al Gore's route from Senator's son to Vice President
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- Computer
History Museum (text, photos, interactive exhibits)
- History
of the United States Supreme Court\Histories
of the Internet (links to information about the "internets," as
GeorgeW. would say
Foner Chapter
28, September 11 and the Next American Century
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Presidential
Biography: George W. Bush (from White House
Web site)
- Presidential
Biography: Barack Obama (from White House
Web site)
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Vote 101 - click on "Vote
101" tab, click on the small photo of President
Reagan, then find the links to these short videos: "Transfer
of Power" - "Vote Tech" - "The
Electoral College" - The Inauguration" - "Primaries,
Caucuses and Conventions"
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Great Moments from the
Campaign Trail - click on "Great Moments" tab,
then find links to the short videos
- U.S.
Presidential Elections: Famous Ads - click
on "Famous Ads" tab, then "Campaign
Spots," and find links to the campaign advertisements
- FRONTLINE:
Hunting bin Laden: Interview with Usama bin Laden (text
and video: click on "high bandwidth" link in the gray
box - bin
Laden explains his declaration of war against America
and its allies in May, 1998)
- September
11: Chronology of terror (CNN archives)
- September
11 Attacks - Images of the Aftermath (photographs)
- 9/11
Chair: Attack Was Preventable (text, video)
- 9-11
Five Years Later (text, video, interactives from the
fifth anniversary of terror attacks)
- The
Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us?
- Civil
Rights History Comes Full Circle In Alabama
- Library
of Congress Webcast: America Between the Wars (video)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: Avoiding the Fate of the Mayans (video)
- FRONTLINE:
Bush's War, Parts 1 and 2 (investigate, learn, watch
the video)
- The
Bush Doctrine
- The
Iraq War (video series - History Channel)
- Protest
Music for a New Generation: Vietnam-Era Musicians
Lead Chorus of Voices Against War (text, listen to report
from National Public Radio)
- Battle
Lines: Letters from America's Wars
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: New Orleans (investigate, learn, watch the
film)
- The
End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
- First
Lady Biography: Laura
Bush, Michelle Obama
- George
W. Bush Presidential Libarry
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Bush:
The Making of a Candidate: series of articles tracing
the personal and political life of George W. Bush
- FRONTLINE:
The Dark Side (investigate, learn, watch the film)
- FRONTLINE:
Living Old (investigate, learn, watch the film)
- FRONTLINE:
A Soldier's Heart (investigate, learn, watch the film)
- FRONTINE:
Inside the Meltdown (investigate, learn, watch the
film)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
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