American Decades

20th Century Overview:  Information on all the decades

American Timeline from the Smithsonian  http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/timeline.htm


CNN:  20th Century Timeline  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/century/

Eyewitness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It 
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
Eyewitness accounts of major events throughout history, including 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Select the time period at the top. 

Library of Congress American Memory   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html 
Scroll down to select a time period.

National Archive Picture Gallery of the 20th Century
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/picturing_the_century/home.html

Multnomah County Library Homework Center http://www.multcolib.org/homework/amhsthc.html

20th Century American History 
http://www.liberty.edu/resources/library/public/as/history/american/20th.htm 
Each decade links to sites of important events, people and culture. 

Man of the Year  http://www.time.com/time/special/moy/moypast.html 
Full text of Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" articles by year. 

Wars and Conflicts from the U.S. Navy http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/index.html

Your Place in Time from the Henry Ford Museum http://www.hfmgv.org/museum/ypit/index.html

 

History:  United States:  1900 - WWI

1903 The Wright Brothers' Flight
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1907 Bill Haywood Trial
1912 The Titanic
1913  First Moving Assemblyline and
PBS Site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/ontheline/
1914 Panama Canal
1919 the 19th Amendment --
Women's Suffrage Movement  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
1921 Sacco and Vanzetti
1921 The Black Sox Trial
1924 Leopold and Leob
1925  The Scopes Monkey Trial
1925-1926 The Sweet Trials
1927 Lindberg Flies the Atlantic http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp
1922 King Tut's Tomb from National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/
1930+  Hoover Dam    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hoover/
1933+  Tennessee Valley Authority   http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/history.htm
1931 - 1937 Scottsboro Boys
Scottsboro Boys -- from PBS
1937 Hindenburg Disaster  http://www.nlhs.com/hindenburg.htm
Dustbowl Era 1930's
Voices From the Dustbowl
1941 Penicillin
Zoot Suit Riots 1942 ? +  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/

 

History:  United States:  World War I and World War II

The Aerodrome:  Aces and Aircraft of WWI  http://www.theaerodrome.com/index.html
Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/alic/reference_desk/military_resources/japanese_internment
Japanese Americans and WWII  http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
The Drop Zone Virtual Museum
The History Place Index  http://www.historyplace.com/index.html.
Midway Battle of Midway, 4-7 June 1942 --Overview and Special Image Selection  http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm
This links to several pages of information on the Battle of Midway.  Lots of good photos and information in a well organized site.
Military History, Museum & Quartermaster Unit Links  http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/links.html
Naval Aviation in WWI  http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/ww1av.htm
Normandy Invastion WWII  http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq109-1.htm
Pearl Harbor    http://teacher.scholastic.com/pearl/index.htm
Theodore Roosevelt  His Life and Times in Film    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/trfhtml/
What did you do in the war, Grandma?
World War I:  Trenches on the Web http://www.worldwar1.com/index.html

History:  United States:  50's and 60's

Cycles of United States History:  1943 -- Present   http://www.seanet.com/Users/pamur/now.html  Lists of people from the eras as well as time-lines.  Many of the names and events have links to web sites with more information.
Cold War and Submarines    http://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/index.html
Fifties Web   http://www.fiftiesweb.com/  Written by a "Boomer" this is a fun site.  You can get the Burma Shave slogans, listen to tunes from the fifties and get an annotated list of other sites on the fifties.  The bright backgrounds are a little distracting, but really fit the era.  Maybe I enjoyed it since I too remember Hoola Hoops and Pop-it Necklaces!
Kennedy Assassination - Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/jfk/jfk.htm
Little Rock Remembered  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/little-rock-home.html
Little Rock 40th Anniversary  http://www.centralhigh57.org/
Moon Walk -- 1969
Radical Times -- Protests in the 60's http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/index.htm
Rosa Parks-- Montgomery Bus Boycott  http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/
1951 Rosenburg Trial
Sixties Project  http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/
Sputnik    http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/sputnik/
Televison Transforms society http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/picturepower/
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement   http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/
1947 Truman Doctrine    http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/doctrine.htm
Wallace, George -- from PBS   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/

History:  United States: 1970's

1972  Watergate  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm
S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online 1975
Fall of Saigon    http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/saigon/
Feeling Retro: 1970's
1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis http://library.louisville.edu/government/subjects/hist/iranhostage.html
1978 Jonestown Massacre  http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/18/jonestown.anniv.01/
1979 Three Mile Island, Washington Post Series http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tmi/tmi.htm
1979  Three Miles Island, PBS Series
Kent State http://www.may4.org/
Seventies Page    http://dt.prohosting.com/70s/   Lots of 70's entertainment information:  music, television etc.  Links to other items.

 

History:  United States:  80's and 90's

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger
Links to events of the 1990's
    from Chico High School -- includes links to Gulf War