Palatine High School
Databases Useful for researching the 1950s.
(These links will only work when you
are at school. To use these databases from home go to the media center website
and choose from home.)
Choose the
Mass Ultra edition and then combine the keywords The
1950's with your specific topic.
This database will give current articles written about the decade i.e.. today's
view or study of the 50's.
This
database provides full text articles of the top new stories for each year
in each decade. Click on the decade in the box on the right side of the screen
and scroll to find a specific topic or year.
Choose
the Chicago Tribune archive to find primary source material on the
1950's. Enter a narrow topic in the search box and
choose the decade from the drop down menu to find articles about events/people
during the time of the actual events.
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CNN: The Twentieth Century
The Fifties Web
Kingwood College Library |
Smithsonian
Institute: American History Timeline
Library of Congress American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html
Multnomah County Library Homework Center
The Naval Historical Center |
Books
in the Palatine High School Media Center useful for researching the 1950s.
Check the book cart first for these titles. This is not a full
list of books. Use the
online catalogue
to find more books on your specific topic.
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American decades; primary sources UXL American decades American decades, 1990-1999 Bowling, beatniks, and bell-bottoms; pop culture of
20th-century America Twentieth-century teen culture by the decades; a
reference guide Decades of beauty; the changing image of womern,
1890s-1990s Daily
life in the United States, 1960-1990; decades of discord |
American decades, 1950-1959
Rock on almanac; the first
four decades of rock’n’roll: a chronology
American
Heritage illustrated history of the United States
Rock
films; a viewer’s guide to three decades of musicals, concerts,
documentaries and soundtracks 1955-1986
Watching
TV; four decades of American television The
dance band era; the dancing decades from ragtime to swing; 1910-1950
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Check here for information on
creating your bibliography.
Updated January 24, 2006