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The following came from a librarian in another district:
These links are useful and reliable for research.
If you find a great site and would like to share it with others, e-mail me and I will add it to the list.
Try the resources that I have on these pages from my website: http://librarianscorner.net/history_through_the_decades.htm andhttp://librarianscorner.net/roaring_twenties.htm
Try this link I complied for a 7th grade research unit on the 1960s.
http://tinyurl.com/YQKTYV
http://www.delicious.com/legacyms/20th_Century
This may be the best place for videos
http://yttm.tv/y/1950
Change the year for each year in the decade. This is derived from YouTube, so I don't know whether they can access it in school.
This is the best place for photos - Life.com - they are VERY EAGER to get schools using their archives.
http://www.life.com/archive/timeline/decade/1950
More:
http://www.museum.tv/exhibitionssection.php?page=536
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog23/web/index.html
This discusses some of the big events and provides what links are available:
http://www.pophistorydig.com/?cat=12
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html
http://www.history.com/topics/1950s/media#1950s
The Prelinger Archives are amazing, but a little difficult to navigate
http://www.archive.org/details/Televisi1960
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aprelinger%201950
I have not checked these out myself yet, but they have been
shared by other librarians through the LM_NET. Hope you find
them helpful:
http://www.infotopia.info
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/projects/mathbio/mathjob.html
http://www.h-net.org/lists/
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/
Have you checked out the LOC's American Memories? There are a lot of great
resources there.
Decades Websites
http://ph.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
Timeline year by year featuring details about events and culture.
http://www.chicousd.org/pvlib/decade.htm#70s
This website contains lots of information about the culture of the time.
http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html
Organizes history by decade including key events and themes (war, environment, social, culture, etc.)
Contains video clips as well
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decades.html
Organized by decade, a great website with tons of information about all aspects of life.
Resources by decade:
The 40s
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpamap.html
Searchable by state-primary sources
http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1940.html
Timeline featuring key events for the 1940’s and other decades.
The 50s/60s
http://www.fiftiesweb.com
Contains both 1950s-1960’s cultural references
The 70s
http://www.inthe70s.com/
The 80s
http://www.80s.com/
http://www.inthe80s.com/timeline.shtml
Freeplay Music and Jamendo also have music clips in various decade styles-they can be searched by folk, pop, and also by decade 60's, 70's etc.
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