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LIBRARY

A Year in Time Resources
NON-FICTION
303.48 HIL America dreaming : how youth changed America in the sixties /
304.8 IMM Immigrants: the new Americans
304.87 WEP Immigration
305.42 ROW A century of women : the history of women in Britain and the United States /
323.09 ARS Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice /
324.3 COO Women's rights
324.6 FRO Women's suffrage in America : an eyewitness history /
363.4 OKR Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition /
363.4 WOO Prohibition: banning alcohol
391 MUL Decades of beauty.
641.09 TAN Food in history
658.1 CEN A century of American icons : 100 products and slogans from the 20th century consumer culture /
703 CHI A dictionary of twentieth-century art /.
759.13 TIM American painting, 1900-1970,
780 MER Heart & Soul: a celebration of Black music style in America, 1930-1975.
781.65 KAL The history of Jazz
781.66 FON Not fade away: a backstage pass to 20 years of rock and roll
784.5 STA The encyclopedi of pop, rock and soul
791.43 100 100 years of American film
791.43 CIN Cinema year-by-year, 1894-2000
791.43 EBE The great movies
791.43 FRA The Hollywood history of the world
791.43 MAL The Disney films
791.43 MCG The Rock and Roll Movie Encyclopedia of the 1950s.
791.45 PAV TV mania: a timeline of television
791.45 THO Television's second golden age
796 ENC Encyclopedia of women and sport in America
796 PAR Sports stars
796.357 BAS The baseball anthology
796.357 BAS Baseballfrom the archives of The Sporting News
796.357 FLE Shoeless: the life and times of Joe Jackson
810.911 ENC Encyclopedia of beat literature /
811 AME American poetry.
811.52 AME American poetry, 1915 to 1945.
813.01 BES The Best American short stories, 1998 \
813.3 UPD The best American short stories of the century /
909.82 190 1900-1920 /
909.82 TRE This is your century.
909.824 GWA The not to be forgotten forties /
917.3 THI This fabulous century, 1920-1930.
917.3 THI This fabulous century, 1930-1940.
917.3 THI This fabulous century, 1940-1950.
917.3 THI This fabulous century, 1950-1960.
917.3 THI This fabulous century, 1960-1970.
920 CAD They changed the world 200 icons who have made a difference /
920 COT Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe : baseball's crucial 1920 season /
973 POS Handbook to life in America.
973.8 190 The 1900s /
973.9 DIC From Elvis to e-mail
973.9 EVE Events that shaped the nation
973.91 ADL The uncertain giant: 1921-1941; American foreign policy between the wars.
973.91 FEI The 1900s from Teddy Roosevelt to flying machines /
973.91 GER Decades of beauty.
973.91 KEN Freedom from fear: the American people in Depression and War, 1929-1945
973.91 MCE The Depression and New Deal
973.91 PHI From the Crash to the Blitz; 1929-1939
973.91 PRE The 1930s /
973.91 USC The 1910s /
973.91 USC The 1940s /
973.915 192 The 1920's
973.917 PER The new age of Franklin Roosevelt
973.92 196 The 1960s /
973.92 197 The 1970s /
973.92 198 The 1980s /
973.92 CAM The home front
973.92 KAL The 1990s /
973.92 MAR Daily life in the United States, 1960-1990 : decades of discord /
973.92 MCW The 1960s cultural revolution /
973.921 KAL The 1950s /
973.922 DOB One minute to midnight
973.922 GIT The sixties: years of hope, days of rage
973.924 DAV The truth about Kent State
973.924 STE The 1970s /
973.929 199 The 1990s /
973.929 DIG The digital decade; the 90's
973.93 ABE The missile crisis
AUDIO/VISUAL RESOURCES
CD 781.6 Sou Soul love
CD 781.65 COU Count Basie: greatest hits
CD 781.65 ELL Duke Ellingtion: greatest hits
CD 781.65 FAT Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin'
CD 781.65 MIL Glenn Miller
CD 781.66 LEG Legends: legendary songs performed by original artists, vol.7-12
CD 784.5 DEC Decades collection 1960s
CD 785.41 BIL Billy Cotton: big band sound
CD 785.42 GOO Benny Goodman: greatest hits
VR 323.11 FRE Freedom riders
VR 363.41 PRO Prohibition
VR 940.3 FIR The Firt World War, 1914-1918
VR 940.54 THE The War
VR 959.7 VIE Vietnam: a televison history - The fall of Saigon
VR 973.92 CEN The century: America's time
VR 973.92 THE The sixties: the years that shaped a generation
REFERENCE
REF 317.3 KUR Datapedia of the United States : American history in numbers /
REF 394.1 OXF American food and drink
REF 539.7 CAR Encyclopedia of the atomic age.
REF 809.3 NOV Novels for students.
REF 810.9 AME American history through literature, 1870-1920.
REF 902 GRU The timetables of history : a horizontal linkage of people and events /
REF 909 HIS History behind the headlines : the origins of conflicts worldwide /
REF 909 HIS V.9 History in dispute.
REF 909.82 Encyclopedia of the interwar years from 1919 to 1939 /
REF 909.82 PAL A dictionary of contemporary world history : from 1900 to the present day /
REF 920 SCR The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
REF 973.91 AME American decades 1900-1999
REF 973.91 HOW The roaring twenties
REF 973.91 ENC Encyclopedia of the Great Depression
REF 973.91 HAN Great Drepression and the New Deal
REF 973.91 HIS Historical events for students: the Great Depression
REF 973.92 ENC Encyclopedia of contemporary American culture
REF 973.92 TOR Encyclopedia of Cold War politics
REF 973.923 PEN The sixties in America.
REF 973.923 PEN The sixties in America.
DATABASES
ABC-CLIO American Government
American Government, Release 2.0 connects the issues of the day with the foundations of government and compares the political and economic systems of the United States with other countries.
www.americangovernment.abc-clio.com
ABC-CLIO American History
From the explorers of the Americas to today's headlines, American History, Release 2.0 investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution.
www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com
ABC-CLIO Issues Understanding Controversy and Society,
This database helps students develop an in-depth understanding of how society shapes and is shaped by controversy—with authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on the most enduring and timely issues of the day.
www.issues.abc-clio.com
ABC-CLIO World Geography
World Geography, Release 2.0 develops students' global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that influence our world.
www.worldgeography.abc-clio.com
ABC-CLIO World History:Modern Era
This database offers a comprehensive electronic library of historical reference materials and interactive curricular units, plus tools for enhancing lectures, creating research lists, developing student activities, and addressing different learning styles
www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com
The African American Experience
The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field.
http://aae.greenwood.com/default.aspx
The American National Biography
A useful and dynamic source of information - updates quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. Search Tip: For a precise match, enter a name in the format Last Name, First Name.
http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html
CQ Researcher Online
CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/index.php
CountryReports
CountryReports provides useful cultural, historical, and statistical country information for teachers and students.
http://www.countryreports.com/
eLibrary
eLibrary Curriculum Edition--the ultimate easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource--delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries.
http://www.proquestk12.com
Encyclopedia Britannica
Britannica Online School Edition: The most comprehensive K-12 reference resource, with separate units for elementary, middle school, and high school. To access the following additional databases, click on the Additional Britannica Databases button.
www.school.eb.com
Gale Virtual Reference Library
GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493?db=GVRL-0 
The Latino American Experience
The Latino American Experience marks the first-ever database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos, the largest, fastest-growing minority group in the United States. LAE offers unparalleled depth and content. Much needed; very timely; muy fresca .
http://lae.greenwood.com
Literature Resources
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493?db=LitRG 
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493?db=OVRC
Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas
Pop Culture Universe is an irresistible yet authoritative digital database on popular culture in America, both past and present—in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers.
http://popculture.abc-clio.com
WEBSITES
GENERAL INFORMATION
Advertisements of the 20th century
AD Access Duke University Libraries
Print ads from 1911-1957
Adclassix.com
Vintage advertisements under a variety of categories
Adflip: Archive of Classic Ads
Archives classic print ads under 17 categories
Vintage Ad Browser
100,000 vintage ads under a wide variety of categories
American Cultural History, 1900-1999 (Kingwood College, Texas)
American Masters A-Z List (PBS)
American cultural artists past and present
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Authentic History Center
Artifacts and sounds of popular culture
Bad Fads Museum
Chasing the Sun: History of Commerical Aviation (PBS)
Civil Rights Resource Guide (Multnomah County Library - Portland, Oregon)
ClassicCar.com
Fashion and Food Resources
500 Years of American Food
Fashion History and Costume Eras
The Food Time Line (Morris County Library, Whippany, N.J.)
LACMA Collections - A Century of Fashion
Soulmates: The Century in Shoes
Eyewitness to History: 20th century
FBI History
Film History by Decade (Filmsite.org)
Fun Music Facts from 1900-1950
Google News Archive (Historical archive of newspapers/magazines and legal issues)
Great Idea Finder (Inventor and invention history)
History of Comics
Infoplease.com Year by Year
People History News, events, prices and popular culture 1920 to today
People's Century 1900-1999 (PBS)
Picturing the Century ( National Archives and Records Administration)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Yahoo: U.S. History by Time Period
MULTIMEDIA
Audio/Music/Radio Resources
Abmp3 Music Search Engine
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
Find Sounds
Free Oldies Music Jukebox (Music from 1950-1989) NEW
HistoryBuff.com Audio Files
Lost in the 50's: Oldies Jukebox NEW
Music Playlist Sites (Westmontwiki/Decades Tools and Sources/Music Playlist Sites)
Musicals 101 (The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film)
National Jukebox (Historical recordings from the Library of Congress) NEW
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
Corbis Images
FotoSearch
Getty Images
Library of Congress Photostream on Flickr
LIFE Magazine photo archive(Google hosted)
National Archives
Picsearch
Video and Television Resources
Note: Do not view videos during school hours due to bandwidth demand.
Adventure and Action Free Movies (1900's-1960's)
American Experience On-Line VIdeos (PBS)
American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
Biography Channel Videos
CBC Digital Archives (Canadian Broadcasting Centre)Click on Archives Timeline to select historical events
Classic TV Ads
Classic TV Database
EASE History
History Channel Speeches and Video
Internet Archive (Searching required - not arranged chronologically
National Archives
Open Video Project
Snag Learning
RoadOde Television (1950s-1970's Television shows, music, etc.) NEW
Television: the First 75 Years (Television set history)
TV Party
TV4U (1950s and 1960s vintage television shows and commercials) NEW
THE 1900's
About Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect Studio 3D)
American Cultural History: 1900-1909
American Experience: Houdini (PBS)
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
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
THE 1910'S
1919 World Series: the Chicago Black Sox (Chicago Historical Society
American Cultural History: 1910-1919
American Experience: Houdini (PBS)
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
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
Eyewitness to World War I
The First World War
The Great War (PBS)
The Great War, 1914-1918
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (National Archives)
Lessons of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire May Be Lost 100 Years Later (AOL News 3/25/2011)
Panama Canal
Titanic: a Special Exhibit from Britannica Online
Triangle Factory Fire
World War I: Trenches on the Web
THE 1920'S
American Cultural History: 1920-1929
American Experience: Houdini (PBS)
American Experience: The Monkey Trial (PBS)
Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
Eyewitness to History: 20th century
FBI History
Flapper Station
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library New
Jazz Age Culture (Pittsburgh State University)
Part I
Flapper Era and Harlem Renaissance
Part II
Modernist Art, Harlem Renaissance Art, Jazz Age
Part III: Writers Explore the links to 1920's resources
Harlem, Lost Generation and More Modernist Writers
Jazz Age: The American 1920s (Digital History)
Looking Back at the Crash of '29 (New York Times)
Temperance and Prohibition (Ohio State University)
What Was Teapot Dome? (History news Network)
THE 1930'S
1930s Timeline (University of Virginia) New
America from the Great Depression to World War II (American Memory, Library of Congress)
American Cultural History: 1930-1939
American Experience: Hoover Dam (PBS)
American Experience: Riding the Rails (PBS)
American Experience: Surviving the Dustbowl (PBS)
American Memories: WPA Life Histories Collection (American Memory, Library of Congress)
America in the 1930's American Studies, University of Virginia
Computer History Museum
Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine (Vintage phonograph recordings, 1900-1939)
Explorations: Children and the Great Depression (Digital History)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Digital Archives
New Deal Network
Slang in the Great Depression
Then and Now Prices
TVA: From the New Deal to a New Century (Tennessee Valley Authority)
THE 1940'S
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
American Cultural History: 1940-1949
Cold War Museum
Computer History Museum
Dr. Seuss Goes to War (a catalog of political cartoons by Dr. Seuss)
Eyewitness to World War Two
For European Recovery: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan (Library of Congress)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on YouTube (Please watch at home)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Sites to see (Education World)
Hiroshima Peace Site
Holocaust (Westmont wiki/Student Resources/Reading)
Levitown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution (Smithsonian)
Nuclear Files: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Perilous Fight: America's World War II (PBS)
Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic)
Tuskegee Airmen (Knowitall.org)
Voices of World War II (Audio resources)
Who "invented' the TV Dinner? (Library of Congress)
World War II Sites
WWW-VL: History: USA: 1940-1950
THE 1950'S
American Cultural History: 1950-1959
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Brown Foundation
Cold War Museum
Computer History Museum
The Cold War: the Manhattan Project (U.S. Department of Energy)
The Fifties Web: the Retro 50s, 60s, and 70s Source
Korean War Commemoration Department of Defense
Levitown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
Lost in the 50's: Oldies Jukebox NEW
Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
Mobilizing Young American Minds: 1950-1970 (Smithsonian) "Teaching Math and Science in the Age of Sputnik"
Montgomery Bus Boycott (Montgomery Advisor)
Mr. Pop History: 1950s Week by Week Archive
NASA: Human Spaceflight History
Old Forty Fives.Com (Nostalgic look back at the 50's, 60's and 70s)
Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s
Rewind the Fifties
TV4U (1950s and 1960s vintage television shows and commercials)
Yahoo: Civil Rights Movement
Whatever Happened to Polio (Smithsonian)
THE 1960'S
American Cultural History: 1960-1969
American Experience: Race to the Moon (PBS)
American Experience: Vietnam Online (PBS)
Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
BBHQ: Baby Boomer Headquarters
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Chicago Blizzards
Cold War Museum
The Cold War: the Manhattan Project (U.S. Department of Energy)
Computer History Museum
The Fifties Web: the Retro 50s, 60s, and 70s Source
Greg Knight's Patio Culture (Suburban America)
JFK Assassination Reports and Records
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on YouTube (Please watch at home)
The March on Washington (National Public Radio - NPR)
Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
Mobilizing Young American Minds: 1950-1970 (Smithsonian)"Teaching Math and Science in the Age of Sputnik"
Mr. Pop Culture: 1960s Week by Week Archive
NASA: Human Spaceflight History
Old Forty Fives.Com (Nostalgic look book at the 50's, 60's and 70s)
The Psychedelic ‘60s: Literary tradition and Social Change ( (University of Virginia Library)
Remembering the March (PBS Online News Hour)
Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s
Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
TV4U (1950s and 1960s vintage television shows and commercials)
Vietnam War (History.com)
We Shall Overcome: Historic Civil Rights Sites (National Park Service)
Yahoo: Civil Rights Movement
THE 1970'S
American Cultural History: 1970-1979
American Experience: Vietnam Online (PBS)
Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
Chicago Blizzards
The Cold War: the Manhattan Project (U.S. Department of Energy)
Cold War Museum
Computer History Museum
Disco-Disco.com
The First Test Tube Baby (Time Magazine)
The Fifties Web: the Retro 50s, 60s, and 70s Source
In the 70s.Com
May Fourth Collection - Kent State University Tragedy
Mr. Pop Culture: 1970s Week by Week Archive
NASA: Human Spaceflight History
Old Forty Fives.Com (Nostalgic look book at the 50's, 60's and 70s)
Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s
Seventies Preservation Society
Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
Super Seventies Rocksite
Three Mile Island (Smithsonian)
Vietnam War (History.com)
Watergate Files (Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum)
Watergate.info
THE 1980'S
American Cultural History: 1980-1989
Black Monday 1987
CNN Video Almanac: 1980's
The Cold War: the Manhattan Project (U.S. Department of Energy)
Cold War Museum
Computer History Museum
Growing Up in the 80's
In the 80s.Com
Mr. Pop Culture: 1980s Week by Week Archive
MTV Music Television (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
NASA: Human Spaceflight History
Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s
Shuttle Mission Archive (NASA)
Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
Tylenol Case Revisited (Chicago Tribune)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial National Park Service
Vietnam Veterans Memorial - The Wall
THE 1990's
American Cultural History: 1990-1999
Americans with Disabilities ACT (U.S. Dept. of Education)
CNN Video Almanac: 1990's
Columbine (Jefferson County, Colorado Sheriff's Office)
Computer History Museum
Frontline: the Gulf War (PBS)
Hip-Hop Style (PBS)
Impeachment Trial - Clinton (PBS Online News Hour)
In the 90s.Com
Iranian Hostage Crisis (PBS) From PBS' American Experience: Jimmy Carter
Living with Tragedy: the Colorado High School Shootings (National Public Radio)
Mr. Pop Culture: 1990s Week by Week Archive
NASA: Human Spaceflight History
Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
Operation Desert Storm (National Security Agency)
Panama Canal
People History - 1990s
Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s
Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
Waco: the Inside Story (PBS)
World Trade Center Bombing 1993
SEARCH ENGINES
Ask.com
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www.ask.com
CITATION AIDS
easybib
The free automatic bibliography composer.
Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word.
http://www.easybib.com
NoodleTools
Individual citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian format
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