20th Century America
Progressive
Era (1900-1920)
Progressive
Era - Online sources - Original texts and resources.
Includes Theodore Roosevelt, major terms.
Progressive
Era - World Wide Web Resources
How
the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
Letters
from Upton Sinclair - includes The Jungle
National
American Woman Suffrage Association-
from the Library of Congress, this site offers a comprehensive
timeline of the events leading up to the 19th Amendment,
also includes a searchabledatabase of primary source
documents and biographies of key figures.
Woman
Suffrage Home Page
Women and
Social Movements in the United States - 123 original
documents.
Woodrow
Wilson - from the White House
Woodrow
Wilson - from the Internet
Public Library, this site offers links to speeches,
audio clips, other biographical Internet resources
including the White House compilation.
World
War I (1914-1918)
The
Great War - A PBS site devoted to WWI and the
shaping of the 20th Century.
Age
of Imperialism
World War I
The
Great War - Comprehensive site
A
Brief Chronology of the War
World
War I - includes search by topic, time, people.
Provides summary of events.
World
War I, The Great War - More links - resources
are organized by year.
World War
I, Document Archives
World
War I, Picture Archives
The
Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1939)
Flapper
Culture and Style
American
prohibition in the 1920's
Flapper
Jane - an article that first appeared in The
New Republic (1925)
The
Great Depression- An Analysis
The New Deal
The New Deal Network
The
Great Depression
Sliding
into the Great Depression
The
Great Depression and the New Deal - Includes the
causes, philosopies and legacies.
Lyrics
from Songs of the Great Depression -A fun site.
Photographs
from the Great Depression - A Library of Congress
site that offers photos of the time as well as links
to other resources.
Rise
of Dictators and World War II (1929-1939)
World
War II - A collection of materials on the web.
World
War II Links
The
Rise of Adolf Hitler
A-Bomb WWW Museum
Includes a general history of World War I.
World
War II Documents - The Avalong Project sponsored
by Yale Univ.
The Holocaust Museum
A Cybrary of the
Holocaust from Remember.org
The Holocaust
- A collection of resources including a chronology
of the events and links to other Internet resoruces.
Holocaust
Resources
The
Cold War (1945-1991)
(Also see "Roots of Modern
America")
The
Berlin Wall
The
Cold War
The Cold War
& Social Attitudes
The
Marshall Plan - from the National Archives &
Records
The
Marshall Plan Home Page - includes videos, speeches,
transcripts, etc.
Fidel
Castro Archives
Cuban
Missile Crisis
Cuban
Missile Crisis-Links
Harry
S. Truman:The White House
The
Vietnam War (1950's-1970's)
Vietnam
War Home Page
Vietnam
Resources Page
Vietnam War
- an overview
Statistics
from the Vietnam War
Vietnam
War History Page
Vietnam
Veterans Home Page
Civil
Rights Movement (1950's-1960's)
(Also see "Roots
of Modern America")
Civil
Rights Movement Timeline
The
Ku Klux Klan
The
Tuskegeee Airmen
Brown vs. Board
of Education- the historic site..
Brown
v. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas
Thurgood
Marshall and Brown v. Board of Education
Brown
vs. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas
Little
Rock, Arkansas
George
WallaceMartin
Luther King Jr.
Links
to other sites about Civil Rights and Martin Luther
King Jr.
Malcolm
X- An Islamic Perspective
Malcolm
X
Prominent African
Americans
National
Civil Rights Museum-Virtual Tour
The
Great Society and Lyndon Johnson Years (1960's)
Full
Text of Johnson's Great Society Speech
The
Great Society - An encyclopedic entry from Grolier
Online with links to Johnson.
Lyndon
B. Johnson
The
Great Society - An entry from Encarta Online.
Women's
Rights Movement (1960's-1970's)
(Also see "Roots
of Modern America")
NOW-
history of the organization
Women's
Suffrage Movement
Encyclopedia
of Women's History
Timeline
of the Suffragette Movement
Environmental
Movement (1960's - )
Environmental
Movement History -
Short
History of Environmental Movement -
includes impact of the book The Spring.
Revolutions
in Central and Latin America (1960's-1980's)
The
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Bay
of Pigs Invasion - a timeline
Bay
of Pigs Resources
Iran/Contra
Scandal
Iran/Contra
Affair
Nixon
and Watergate (1970's)
Nixon:
The Man and the Myth
Richard
Nixon: The Official Biography
Watergate
- The scandal that destroyed a President
The
Watergate Scandal - from the Washington Post
Watergate
Decade
Reagan
Era and Reaganomics (1900's)
Ronald
Reagan
Reagan
- from Thinkquest
Reaganomics
Supply
Side Economics
Gulf
War (early 1900's)
The
Gulf War
The
Frontline: The Gulf War
Gulf War Veterans
Resources
Desert Storm
Wars
in Bosnia and Kosovo (Conflicts with Yugoslavia) (1900's)
War
in Bosnia
War
through the Eyes of the Children
History
of War in Bosnia
Situation
in Kosovo from the State Department
Kosovo:
A Conflict in Review
Kosovo - A
Home Page for the Servian Democratic Movement
Kosovo
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