Decades+Resources

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 * List of Decades Tools
 * SIS LMC Databases
 * We Didn't Start the Fire Movie
 * [|Step 1 of Lesson Idea great mini lesson for mid 20th century]

=GENERAL=
 * [|20th and 21st Century America] (Great Links)
 * [|AD Access] (Print ads 1911-1957)
 * [|Adflip: Archive of Classic Ads]
 * [|American Cultural History, 1900-1999] (Kingwood College, Texas
 * [|American Experience Archives] (PBS)
 * [|American Masters A-Z List (PBS)] American cultural artists past and present
 * [|American Memory] (Library of Congress)
 * [|Civil Rights Resource Guide] (Multnomah County Library - Portland, Oregon)
 * [|Film History by Decade] (Filmsite.org)
 * [|Great Idea Finder]
 * [|History...It's Happening!] ( EBSCO )
 * [|History of Comics]
 * [|History of Fashion, Food, Games & Entertainment]
 * [|Images of American Political History]
 * [|Infoplease.com Year by Year]
 * [|LIFE photo archive hosted by Google]
 * [|NARA Exhibit Hall] (National Archives and Records Administration)
 * [|People History]
 * [|Picturing the Century] ( National Archives and Records Administration)
 * [|Time100: the Most Important People of the 20th Century]
 * [|Yahoo: U.S. History by Time Period]

Fashion Resources

 * [|Fashion History and Costume Eras]
 * [|History of Fashion, Food, Games & Entertainment - Fashion]
 * [|LACMA Collections - A Century of Fashion]

Food Resources

 * [|500 Years of American Food]
 * [|History of Fashion, Food, Games & Entertainment - Food]
 * [|The Food Time Line] (Morris County Library, Whippany, N.J.)

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=MULTIMEDIA= Always refer to school online subscription databases for image resources.
 * Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied! **
 * ===**Audio/Music/Radio Resources**===
 * [|AltaVista Audio Search]
 * [|American Popular Music, 1900-1959] (Kingwood College Library, Texas)
 * [|American Popular Music, 1950-1990's] (Kingwood College Library, Texas)
 * [|American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank]
 * [|Digital History: Historical Music]
 * [|History Channel Speeches and Video]
 * [|LearnOutLoud] (free video and audio resources)
 * [|Museum TV] (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
 * [|Musicals 101] (The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film)
 * [|ODEO]
 * [|Oldies Music] (1950's-1970's)
 * [|Public Domain Music] (1900-1922)
 * [|Radio Lovers: Old Time Radio Shows]
 * [|Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]
 * ===**Image Resources**===
 * [|Alta Vista Image Search]
 * [|American Memory Collection] (Library of Congress)
 * [|Biography Channel Photo Gallery]
 * [|Images of American Political History]
 * [|National Archives]
 * [|Picsearch]
 * [|WJHS Subscription to **AP Images**]
 * ===**Video and Television Resources**===
 * [|Adventure and Action Free Movies] (1900's-1960's)
 * [|American Memory Collection] (Library of Congress)
 * [|Biography Channel Videos]
 * [|CBC Archives] (On the left side click on Archives Timeline to select historical events)
 * [|Classic TV Ads]
 * [|Classic TV Database]
 * [|EASE History]
 * [|Encyclopedia of Television] (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
 * [|History Channel Speeches and Video]
 * [|Internet Archive] (Searching required - not arranged chronologically)
 * [|LearnOutLoud] (free video and audio resources)
 * [|LIFE photo archive hosted by Google]
 * [|Meet the Presidents] (TV broadcasts from hulu)
 * [|National Archives]
 * [|Open Video Project]
 * [|Television: the First 75 Years] (Television set history)
 * [|TV Party]
 * ===**WEB 2.0 Sources **===
 * Use these resources to enhance your wiki.

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=THE 1900's=
 * [|About Frank Lloyd Wright] (Architect Studio 3D)
 * [|American Cultural History: 1900-1909]
 * [|Ash Can School]
 * [|Child Labor in America, 1908-1912 Photographs by Lewis W. Hine]
 * [|Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine] (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
 * [|Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920]
 * [|Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust]
 * [|Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire] (City of San Francisco Virtual Museum)
 * [|Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company]
 * [|Henry Ford Museum & Greenwich Village]
 * [|Wright Brothers National Memorial National Park Service]

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=THE 1910'S=
 * [|1919 World Series: the Chicago Black Sox] (Chicago Historical Society
 * [|American Cultural History: 1910-1919]
 * [|Child Labor in America, 1908-1912 Photographs by Lewis W. Hine]
 * [|Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine] (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
 * [|Eastland Disaster - Chicago 1915]
 * [|Eastland Memorial Society]
 * [|Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920]
 * [|The First World War]
 * [|The Great War] (PBS)
 * [|The Great War, 1914-1918]
 * [|Panama Canal]
 * [|Titanic: a Special Exhibit from Britannica Online]
 * [|World War I: Trenches on the Web]
 * [|Yahoo: The 1910's]

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=THE 1920'S=
 * [|American Cultural History: 1920-1929]
 * [|Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine] (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
 * [|Flapper Station]
 * Jazz Age Culture
 * [|Part I]
 * [|Part II]
 * [|Part III: Writers Explore the links to 1920's resources]
 * [|Jazz Age: The American 1920s] (Digital History)
 * [|Temperance and Prohibition]
 * [|Yahoo: The 1920's]

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=THE 1930'S=
 * [|America from the Great Depression to World War II] (American Memory, Library of Congress)
 * [|American Cultural History: 1930-1939]
 * [|American Memories: WPA Life Histories Collection] (American Memory, Library of Congress)
 * [|America in the 1930's American Studies, University of Virginia]
 * [|Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine] (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
 * [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Digital Archives]
 * [|New Deal Network]
 * [|Surviving the Dustbowl The American Experience from PBS]
 * [|Then and Now Prices]
 * [|TVA: From the New Deal to a New Century]
 * [|Yahoo: The 1930's]

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=THE 1940'S=
 * [|American Cultural History: 1940-1949]
 * [|Cold War Museum]
 * [|Dr. Seuss Goes to War] (a catalog of political cartoons by Dr. Seuss)
 * Holocaust (Westmont wiki/Student Resources/Reading)
 * [|The Perilous Fight: America's World War II] (PBS)
 * [|Remembering Pearl Harbor National Geographic]
 * [|Voices of World War II] (Audio resources)
 * [|World War II Sites]
 * [|WWW-VL: History: USA: 1940-1950]
 * [|Yahoo: The 1940s]

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=THE 1950'S=
 * [|American Cultural History: 1950-1959]
 * [|Cold War Museum]
 * [|The Fifties Web]
 * [|Korean War Commemoration Department of Defense]
 * [|Old Forty Fives.Com] (Nostalgic look back at the 50's and 60's)
 * [|Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s]
 * [|Rewind the Fifties]
 * [|Whatever Happened to Polio] (Smithsonian)
 * [|Yahoo: Civil Rights Movement]
 * [|Yahoo: The 1950's]

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=THE 1960'S=
 * [|American Cultural History: 1960-1969]
 * [|BBHQ: Baby Boomer Headquarters]
 * [|Cold War Museum]
 * [|Greg Knight's Patio Culture] (Suburban America)
 * [|Nostalgia Central]
 * [|Old Forty Fives.Com] (Nostalgic look book at the 50's and 60's)
 * [|The Psychedelic ‘60s: Literary tradition and Social Change (]University of Virginia Library)
 * [|Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s]
 * [|Vietnam Online] (PBS)
 * [|Yahoo: Civil Rights Movement]
 * [|Yahoo: The 1960's]

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=THE 1970'S=
 * [|American Cultural History: 1970-1979]
 * [|The Cold War: the Manhattan Project] (U.S. Department of Energy)
 * [|Cold War Museum]
 * [|In the 70s.Com]
 * [|May Fourth Collection Kent State tragedy of May 4, 1970] (Kent State University)
 * [|Nostalgia Central]
 * [|Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s]
 * [|Seventies Preservation Society]
 * [|Vietnam Online] (PBS)
 * [|Vietnam Yesterday and Today]
 * [|Watergate Decade]
 * [|Watergate Files] (Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum)
 * [|Yahoo: The 1970's]

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=THE 1980'S=
 * [|American Cultural History: 1980-1989]
 * [|The Cold War: the Manhattan Project] (U.S. Department of Energy)
 * [|Cold War Museum]
 * [|Growing Up in the 80's]
 * [|In the 80s.Com]
 * [|MTV Music Television] (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
 * [|Nostalgia Central]
 * [|Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s]
 * [|Shuttle Mission Archive] (NASA)
 * [|Vietnam Veterans Memorial National Park Service]
 * [|Yahoo: The 1980's]

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=THE 1990's=
 * [|American Cultural History: 1990-1999]
 * [|Columbine] (Jefferson County, CO Sheriff's Office)
 * [|Frontline: the Gulf War] (PBS)
 * [|In the 90s.Com]
 * [|Living with Tragedy: the Colorado High School Shootings] (National Public Radio)
 * [|Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum]
 * [|Operation Desert Storm] (National Security Agency)
 * [|Panama Canal]
 * [|Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s]
 * [|Waco: the Inside Story] (PBS)
 * [|Yahoo: The 1990s]

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With permission and grateful appreciation to the professional generosity of Linda Houle, Media Specialist, Westmont Junior High School.