Doing the Decades

Don't forget books and videos!  

Look in the stacks for news magazines--Time, Newsweek, Life-- back to the late 1960s!

Books rock for this kind of research!  Browse on the cart and on the shelves around 973 and 973.9.  For books on costume, music, politics, etc.  Check the Catalog.

Databases will help bigtime!

Portals // Sports // Mostly Music // Miscellaneous // Food and Fashion // This Day in History

General Decade Portals

American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

Yahoo! Twentieth Century http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/

20th Century History by the Decades (Chico High School) http://melvil.chicousd.org/decsg.html

Famous Trials http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Chronicle of 1900-2000 http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/chronicle/chronicle.html?tqskip=1

Alameda County Library Decades http://www.aclibrary.org/teenroom/decades.asp

History Channel: This Day in History http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/index.html

History Central: Major Events of the 20th Century (for national and international news!) http://www.historycentral.com/20th/index.html

Multnomah Homework Center: American History http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/amhsthc.html#20th

Recent World 1945--Present (news ideas) http://history.evansville.net/recent.html

About.com: Timeline of the 20th Century http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa110900a.htm

Internet Movie Database "In This Year . . ." http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/

American Photography: A Century of Images http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/

EASE History (Video and photographs from American history-historical events, campaign ads, core values) http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html

Time Warp (Archive of Vintage Technology through the Decades) http://www.time-warp.org/

Miscellaneous

Ad Flip (archive of print ads by decade!) http://www.adflip.com/

Ad Age: Advertising Century http://adage.com/century/century.html

Beat Generation (50s) http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/topics/BeatGen.html

80s Server http://www.80s.com/resources.html

Eighties Club http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/

Feeling Retro (70s) http://www.kconline.com/kurtkelsey/retro/

Fifties Web http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm

Internet Movie Database "In This Year . . ." http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/

It Seems Like Yesterday http://www.itseemslikeyesterday.com/

New Deal Network (1930s and 40s) http://newdeal.feri.org/

America in the 30s http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html

American Memory: Photographs 1939-1945 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Voices from the Dustbowl http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

Psychedelic 60s http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html

Sixties Project http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/

Sixties Section http://www.bbhq.com/sixties.htm

Time Magazine Cover Search http://www.time.com/time/magazine/coversearch

Time Man of the Year http://www.time.com/time/special/moy/moypast.html

Weather for You http://www.weatherforyou.com/history/

Sports

Yahoo: Sports History http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/History/

Sporting News: The Vault http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/

Phillies History http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/phi/history/phi_history_timeline.jsp?period=11

NBA History http://www.nba.com/history/

NBA History (CBS Sportsline) http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/basketball/nba/history/

ESPNs Sports Century http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/

Mostly Music

Yahoo: Rock and Pop Music History http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Rock_and_Pop/History/

All Music Guide http://allmusic.com/

Oldies Music Number One Songs (50s through 70s) http://www.oldiesmusic.com/no1.htm

Ultimate Band List (gateway to information about artists) http://ubl.com

Life Rock and Roll Covers http://www.life.com/Life/rocknroll/covers/coversindex.html

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://www.rockhall.com/home/default.asp

Grammy Award History http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy/

Grammy History: Information Please http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0150533.html

History in Song http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html

This Day in Rock and Roll History http://www.arrowfm.com/cgi/history.pl

This Day in History Sites

This Day in History http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

On This Day http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

Today in History Archive http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html

Facts.com: What Happened That Day? (subscription) http://www.2facts.com/stories/mainmenu.asp

Information Please Day in History http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/dayinhistory/

Food and Fashion

Food Timeline (helpful for those commercials!) http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Dining Through the Decades http://www.leitesculinaria.com/features/dining.html

History of Fashion, Food and Time http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/FaFoTime.html

Costume Gallery (check out 20th Century Fashion for your commercials) http://www.costumegallery.com/

Yahoo: Fashion and Beauty History http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Design_Arts/Fashion_and_Beauty/History/

Fact Monster: Fashion Timeline http://www.factmonster.com/spot/fashiontime1.html

Costume Resources Online http://members.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html

American Vintage Blues http://www.vintageblues.com/history_main.htm

Timeline of Costume History http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/timeline.htm

Fashion Era http://www.fashion-era.com

Museum of Costume http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk

History of Fashion Homepage-Prehistoric Fashion to the 1960s http://www2.oneonta.edu/~angellkg/index.html

Fashion for Women through the Ages http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/fashion/index.htm

History of Fashion and Dress Main Page http://www.costumes.org/pages/fashiondress/thr355main.htm

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