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Peace And Prosperity
The History Teacher provides documents, pictures, and links for the 1950's.
Great resource for the history of African-Americans in the US, as well as for the civil rights movement.
Full text of perhaps the most famous speech in American history.
This site provides information, essays, links, and biographies for the time period.
Review and resource guide with readings, documents, and audio/visual links for the fifties.
Review and resource guide with readings, documents, and audio/visual links for the civil rights movement.
This online textbook is an excellent resource for documents, essays, and biographies as well.
The purpose of this web/library guide is to help the user gain a broad understanding of this decade of the twentieth century. A wide range of internet sources related to the cultural history of the time is provided: General Demographic Facts, Historic Events, Technology, Music, Movies, Fashions, Fads, Famous Persons and others. An interesting, enjoyable and educational site--a few links are no longer valid.
Outstanding site for links, documents, pictures, and literature. A great place to start your research for the fifties.
Great links to research each and every major American conflict from a variety of viewpoints.
A great site to start your research, Teachers Discovering History As Historians is set up by unit, with documents, multimedia, and hundreds of links.
The History Teacher is a comprehensive site from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, dedicated to history teachers and students. Highly recommended as the first place to visit for research, instructional materials and recommended web sites related to all levels of American History and Government and Global Studies.
This site is simple to use and is set up in chronological order for any time period in US history. It will lead to primary documents, maps, journals, photos, biographies, and much more.
An outstanding site to get information on US presidents, as well as speeches and audio clips.
This is our online textbook and associated review excercises. You will need your User ID and password.
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