UNIT RESOURCES

1: WHAT IS HISTORY?

2: AN INDUSTRIAL NATION

The Men Who Built America
Videos and articles from the History Channel series

Triangle Fire
PBS American Experience

3: AN EMERGING WORLD POWER

Plessy v. Ferguson
Article from PBS "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"
Video (5:00) from Discovery Education

Iron-Jawed Angels
Hollywood vs. History
Iron-Jawed Angels (additional resources)

The Spanish-American War
Short video explains the causes and results of the war

4: CONTRASTING DECADES

5: WORLD WAR ii AND EARLY COLD WAR

6: TURBULENT TIMES

The Sixties
Various resources from CNN's original series

7: MODERN AMERICA

PROJECT RESOURCES

DEPRESSION ERA NARRATIVE

Color Photos of Life in the Great Depression (Library of Congress)
Daily Life during the Depression: A Social History (US History Scene)
Dear Daddy: The Farm Letters
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Children of the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs (Library of Congress)
Farming in the 1930s (Wessels Living History Farm)
Invisible Women of the Great Depression (Kathy McMahon)
Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS American Experience)

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"HISTORY THROUGH CULTURE" PROJECT

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GENERAL LINKS

American Cultural History (Lone Star College)
Through the Decades (U.S. Census Bureau)
The People History
The Past is a Blast: Radio and Movies
The Food Timeline
Changing Gender Roles: 1910 to 1950s
Elementary School through the Ages
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1900's & 1910's

1920's

Flappers
1920s slang
1920s fashion
1920s men's fashion
1920s music
Baseball's Golden Age
Prohibition
The Lost Generation
1920s videos (History Channel)
The Roaring Twenties

1930's & 1940's

1930s slang
Popular songs of the 1930s
1930s fads and fashion
1930s fashion
1940s slang
Popular songs of the 1940s
1940s women's fashion
1930s daily life
African-American education
Rosie the Riveter
School during the Great Depression
1930s popular music

1950's

1950s songs
1950s television
1950s miscellaneous

1960's

The Sixties (PBS)
The Sixties (CNN)
1960s dining/food
1960s counterculture essay

1970's

1970s music
1970s memoir
1970s artifacts
1970s fashion

1980's

1980s music
1980s fads
1980s fads
1980s pop culture
Like Totally 80s
The Eighties Club
The Great 80s
1980s videos (History Channel)