20th Century
General Sites
- The Avalon Project:
America 1900 - PBS site for their series of the same name which includes maps
and timelines
- American Memory Collection
- Over 50 collections and 1 million items available for viewing online
- American Temperance
and Prohibition - Biographies of figures prominent during prohibition, has
an excellent table of data on alcohol consumption and beer production
- Anti-Imperialism in
the United States, 1898-1935 - Addresses many issues and includes period cartoons
- Apollo
Lunar Surface Journal - Journals of astronauts from Apollo missions 11,12,14,15,16
and 17
- Detroit Photos from the Library
of Congress - 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300
color photolithograph prints
- The Digital
Classroom - Resources in the National Archives including a documentary analysis
sheet
- Documents from the Women's
Liberation Movement - On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library,
Duke University
- Early
Motion Pictures, 1897-1920 - Extensive digital collection presented by the
Library of Congress American Memory Project
- Edsitement
- List of links on various subjects
- Ellis
Island - Recipes, audio clips, and information about the ongoing Ellis Island
Oral History Project
- The Fifties - Includes music,
TV, a list of Burma-Shave slogans, and of course-Elvis
- The Emma Goldman Papers -
Extensive on-line exhibit
- Kennedy Assassination Home
Page - Extensive on-line resource
- History of Little Rock
Public Schools Desegregation - Examines the events that took place in 1957
- National Archives - Everything
you ever wanted to know about the National Archives and Records Administration
- NAACP Homepage - Explores the NAACP's past
- U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database - Hours
of audio of Supreme Court arguments
- The Population Bomb -
PBS site on Paul Erlich's book The Population Bomb
- Presidential Elections, 1860-1996 - Popular and electoral returns for every election from 1860-1996
- Presidential Speeches - Speeches,
biographies, and links on U.S. presidents
- The Sixties - General site on
the sixties
- Skylighters - Official site of the
225th AAA Searchlight Battalion, includes a chronology of WWII
- The Time 100 - The
100 most important people of the 20th century according to Time magazine
- Watergate
- The Washington Post revisits the Watergate scandal