20th & 21st Century America

Updated July 11, 2005

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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.


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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 ZeppelinsThe 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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