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