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20th Century Hotlist
Created by:
Linda Koehler, Gifted Enrichment Specialist
Dr. Joe Ward Elementary
8400 Cavern Hill
San Antonio, Texas 78254

1900-1909
76,000,000 Americans in 46 states   (by the end of the decade.) 
$46,000,000+ in the U.S. treasury 
8,000 cars - 10 miles of paved roads 
1900 - Auto deaths 96; lynchings 115 
San Francisco Earthquake took 700 lives and cost over $4,000,000 in damage. 
Average worker made $12.98/week for 59 hours 
Life expectancy: 47.3 female, 46.3 male 
1910-1919 -
Population:  92,407,000 
Life Expectancy:  Male 48.4   Female: 51.8 
Average Salary  $750 / year 
Unemployed 2,150,000 
National Debt:  $1.15 billion 
Union Membership: 2.1 million Strikes 1,204 
Attendance:  Movies 30 million per week 
Lynchings:  76 
Divorce:  1/1000 
Vacation:  12 day cruise  $60 
 Milk $.32 / gallon 
Speeds make automobile safety an issue 
25,000 performers tour 4,000 U.S. theaters 
1920-1929-
106,521,537 people in the United States 
2,132,000 unemployed, Unemployment 5.2% 
Life expectancy:  Male 53.6,   Female 54.6 
343.000 in military (down from 1,172,601 in 1919) 
Average annual earnings $1236;  Teacher's salary  $970 
Dow Jones High 100  Low 67 
Illiteracy rate reached a new low of 6% of the population. 
It took 13 days to reach California from New York  There were 387,000 miles of paved road. 
1930-1939- Population: 123,188,000 in 48 states 
Life Expectancy: Male, 58.1; Female, 61.6 
Average salary: $1,368 
Unemployment rises to 25% 
Huey Long propses a guaranteed annual income of $2,500 
Car Sales: 2,787,400 
Food Prices: Milk, 14 cents a qt.; Bread, 9 cents a loaf; Round Steak, 42 cents a pound 
Lynchings: 21
1940-1949 -
Population 132,122,000 
Unemployed in 1940 - 8,120,000 
National Debt $43 Billion 
Average Salary $1,299. Teacher's salary $1,441 
Minimum Wage $.43 per hour 
55% of U.S. homes have indoor plumbing 
Antarctica is discovered to be a continent 
Life expectancy 68.2 female, 60.8 male 
Auto deaths 34,500 
Supreme Court decides blacks do have a right to vote 
World War II changed the order of world power, the  United States and the USSR became super powers 
Cold War begins. 
1950-1959 -
Population: 151,684,000 (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census)* 
Unemployed: 3,288,000 
Life expectancy: women 71.1, men 65.6 
Car Sales: 6,665,800 0 
Average salary: $2,992 
Labor force male/female: 5/2 
Cost of a loaf of bread: $0.14 
Bomb shelter plans, like the government pamphlet You Can Survive, become widely available
1960-1969 -
Population 177,830,000 
Unemployment 3,852,000 
National Debt 286.3 Billion 
Average Salary $4,743 
Teacher's Salary $5,174 
Minimum Wage $1.00 
Life Expectancy:  Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years 
Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000 
An estimated 850,000 "war baby" freshmen enter college; emergency living quarters are set up in dorm lounges, hotels and trailer camps. 
1970-1979
Population: 204,879,000 
Unemployed in 1970: 4,088,000 
National Debt: $382 billion 
Average salary: $7,564 
Food prices: milk, 33 cents a qt.;  bread, 24 cents a loaf; round steak, $1.30 a pound 
Life Expectancy: Male, 67.1; Female, 74.8 
1980-1989
Population: 226,546,000 
Unemployed in 1980: 
National Debt: 1980 - $914,000,000,000 
National Debt:  1986 - $2,000,000,000,000 
Average salary: $15,757 
Life Expectancy: Male 69.9  Female 77.6 
Minimum Wage:  $3.10 
BMW was $12,000; Mercedes 280 E was $14,800 
Attendance:  Movies 20 million/week 
1990-1999
Population:  281,421,906 (2000 Census) 
Unemployment:  5.8 million, or 4.2% (Sept 99) 
National Debt:  $5,413.l Million (1997)
Average Salary:  $13.37/hr (1999) 
Teacher's Salary: $39,347 (1998) 
Minimum Wage:  $5.15/hr (1997) 
Life Expectancy: Male 73.1 Female 79.1(1997) 
Auto Deaths:  49,772 (1997

20th Century by Decade
http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/decade.htm

20th Century Presidents and Vice -Presidents


1897-1901 William McKinley Garret A. Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt
1901-1909 Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt Charles W. Fairbanks 
1909-1913 William Howard Taft James S. Sherman 
1913-1921 Thomas Woodrow Wilson Thomas R. Marshall 
1921-1923 Warren Gamaliel Harding Calvin Coolidge 

 

1923-1929 John Calvin Coolidge Charles G. Dawes
1929-1933 Herbert Clark Hoover Charles Curtis 
1933-1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt John Garner, Henry Wallace, Harry Truman 
1945-1953 Harry S. Truman Alben W. Barkley
1953-1961 Dwight David Eisenhower Richard Nixon
1961-1963 John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson 
1963-1969 Lyndon Baines Johnson Hubert Humphrey 
1969-1974 Richard Milhous Nixon Spiro T. Agnew, Gerald Ford 
1974-1977 Gerald Rudolph Ford Nelson Rockefeller 
1977-1981 James Earl Carter Walter Mondale 
1981-1989 Ronald Wilson Reagan George Bush 
1989-1993 George Herbert Walker Bush Dan Quayle 
1993- William Jefferson Clinton Al Gore 

 

1900-1909

Art and Architecture
Books and Literature
Fads and Fashion
Education
Historic Events and Technology
Music
Persons and Personalities
Theatre and Film

Art and Architecture

Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916). American painter.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eakins/

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924)
http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus51b.htm

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sargentatharvard/archive.html

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
http://web.syr.edu/%7Eribond/homer.html

Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
http://www.sidrmuseum.org/fredr.html

Frank Lloyd Wright
PBS site on Wright's life and works
http://www.pbs.org/flw/

Frank Lloyd Wright
An all Wright site
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1469/flw.html

Frank Lloyd Wright
Webliography of internet resources related to Wright and his works.
http://www.delmars.com/wright/flwright.htm

Art Nouveau, (1890-1914)
http://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/nouveau.htm

Books and Literature

Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/

Owen Wister (1860-1938)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/owister.htm

Willa Cather (1873-1947)
http://www.unl.edu/Cather/menu.htm

Zane Grey (1872 - 1939)
http://www.nps.gov/upde/zgmuseum.htm

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/sandburg/sandburg.htm
 
 

Fads and Fashion

Ping Pong
http://www.robbinstabletennis.com/history.htm

Wheels: The Automobile, 1900-1950
http://www.npl.org/Pages/ProgramsExhibits/Exhibits/wheels.html

The Costume Gallery
http://www.costumegallery.com/1900.html
 

Clothing Styles
http://employees.oneonta.edu/angellkg/1900.HTML

Antique and Vintage clothes gallery
http://www.antiquedress.com/gallery.htm

Education

John Dewey founded first elementary school.
http://www.siu.edu/%7Edeweyctr/

Maria Montessori
http://transporter.com/mcc/Essay01.htm

Mary McLeod Bethune - Founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for African-American Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/beth-mar.htm

Historic Events and Technology

Twentieth Century Inventions 1900 - 1925
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121599a.htm?PM=ss11_inventors

Teddy Bears
http://members.tripod.com/%7Ebigbee/history

Achievements in Public Health
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4840a1.htm

The Wright Brothers
http://www.wrightflyer.org/

Louisiana Exposition - World's Fair
http://stlouis.missouri.org/heritage/History69/#fair

Henry Ford
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/

Music

Irving Berlin
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/berlin.htm

George M. Cohan
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9910/cohan_bio.html

Persons and Personalities

Theodore Roosevelt
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1906/roosevelt-bio.html

George Washington Carver
http://www.nps.gov/gwca/

Wilbur and Orville Wright
http://www.wam.umd.edu/%7Estwright/WrBr/Wrights.html

Theatre and Film

History of Recorded Music
1900-1920's
http://www.soc.duke.edu/%7Es142tm01/history2.html
 
 

1910-1919

About the Decade
Music
Art & Architecture 
Books & Literature 
Fashion and Fads
 Theater, Film, & Radio

About the Decade

World War I
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm

Mass Production of Cars
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmass.htm

The Titanic
http://octopus.gma.org/space1/titanic.html

Jim Thorpe (1888-1953)
http://oraibi.alphacdc.com/necona/jimthorp.html

Girl Scouts of America formed
http://www.main.org/gsusa/histry.htm

Music

Irving Berlin
http://parlorsongs.com/issues/1998-11/nov98feature.asp

George Gershwin
http://www.gershwinfan.com/biogeorge.html

Fred Astaire
http://themave.com/Astaire/FredBio.htm

Art and Architecture

John Marin 1870-1953
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/john_marin_1870.htm

Norman Rockwell
http://www.nrm.org/

James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1834-1903)
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/whistler.html

The Woolworth Building
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/buttowski/

Books and Literature

Robert Frost
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C070C0F

Willa Cather
http://www.gustavus.edu/oncampus/academics/english/cather/

Fashions and Fads

Clothing of the 1910's
http://gramarye_3.tripod.com/gramaryelessons/id7.html

History of Fashion 1910-1920
http://www.vintageblues.com/history1.htm

Foxtrot Dance
http://www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/foxtrot.htm

Irene and Vernon Castle - Ballroom Dancers
http://www.paragonragtime.com/castle.html

Theater, Film, & Radio

Bill Bojangles Robinson
http://www.kathleenacademy.com/funzone/bojangls.html

Cole Porter
http://www.coleporter.org/bio.html

Sinclair Lewis
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/separry/sinclairlewis/
 
 

1920-1929

About the Decade
Art and Architecture
Fads and Fashion
Personalities
Books and Literature
Theatre, Film & Radio

About the Decade

A Decade of Change
http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery03/gallery03.html

Prosperity and Thrift
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/ccpres01.html

Statistics About the 20's
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/6341/History/Roaring20s.html

1920's Slang
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/6341/History/Roaring20s.html

Art and Architecture

Alfred Stieglitz - Photographer and painter
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/stieglitz.html

Thomas Benton
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/benton.html

Charles Sheeler
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/sheeler.html
 
 

Fads and Fashion

Christy's Fashion Page - Flapper Fashion
http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html

History of Fashion
http://www.vintageblues.com/history2.htm

Personalities

Gertrude Ederle - first woman to swim the English Channel
http://www.msu.edu/~grawbur1/iahweb.html

Annie Oakley
http://www.cowgirls.com/dream/cowgals/oakley.htm

Annie Oakley
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/oakl-ann.htm

Albert Einstein
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html

Albert Einstein Online
http://www.westegg.com/einstein/

Charles Atlas
http://www.who2.com/charlesatlas.html

Harry Houdini
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshchrn.html

Harry Houdini
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/3487/

Books and Literature

A Brief Timeline of American Movies, Music and Literature
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1920m.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/fitzgerald.html

Ernest Hemingway
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/hemingway.html

Robert Frost
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/frost.html

Theatre, Film and Radio

Will Rogers
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/wroger.htm

Radio Commercials
http://www.old-time.com/commercials/notsofamous_i.html

Old Time Radio Commercials
http://www.old-time.com/commercials/
 
 

1930-1939


About the Decade
Personalities
Art and Architecture
Fads & Fashion
Music
Books and Literature

About the Decade

Inventions
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/30inventions.htm

Events
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/30events.html

List of Major Events that occurred during the 30's
http://archer2000.tripod.com/1930.html

1930's Dust Bowl
http://www.ptsi.net/user/museum/dustbowl.html

Riding the Rails
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/

Personalities

Jessie Owens
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/30sports.htm

Joe DiMaggio
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/30sports.htm

Admiral Richard Byrd
http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/polar/exhibits/byrd/byrd.htm

Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias
http://www.sacbee.com/static/archive/news/projects/people_of_century/sports/didrikson.html

Amelia Earhart
http://ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html
 
 

Art and Architecture

Jackson Pollok
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/

Georgia O'Keefe
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/index.php

Empire State Building
http://www.nyctourist.com/empire1.htm

Chrysler Building
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Chrysler_Building.html

Hoover Dam
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/haven/hoover/front2.html

Fads and Fashion

1930's Fashion
http://www.wooster.k12.oh.us/highschool/studentprojects/fashiondesign/1930's.htm

Fashions
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/30fads.html

Hairstyles and dress
http://www.wharf.com/ariel/1930s_Women.htm

Music
Entertainment
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/30entertain.htm

Provides profiles of the many women jazz vocalists popular during the 1930s. Includes Ella Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker, and Ethel Waters.
http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/1930s.html

Books and Literature
Dylan Thomas
http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2486&articleaction=print

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/
 
 

1940-1949


About the Decade
Art and Architecture
Personalities
Fads and Fashions
Books and Literature
Radio, Film, Music, Television

About the Decade

Pearl Harbor
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm

War and Peace
http://www.ornl.gov/info/swords/forties.html

Timeline of automobile production
http://www.gm.com/company/corp_info/history/gmhis1940.html

V-E Day, May 8, 1945
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/veday.htm

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/

FDR Cartoon Archive
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/

Looking at the USA in the 1940's
http://memorial.sdcs.k12.ca.us/LESSONS/WWII/Activity2/Activitytwo.html
 
 

Art and Architecture

Architecture and Interior Design
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/gottscho/

Abstract Expressionism
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/abs-expr.html

Jackson Pollock
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/

Andrew Wyeth
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/wyeth_andrew.html

New York City Skyscrapers
http://www.nycskyscrapers.com/

American Architecture
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/gbc_types/usa/usa_1940-1949.html
 
 

Personalities

Una Mae Carlisle - Singer and Pianist
http://www.1940.co.uk/history/article/una/una.htm

Women Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters During World War II
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

Dwight Eisenhower
http://www.eisenhowerbirthplace.org/

Douglas MacArthur
http://www.quotemeonit.com/macarthur.html

Admiral Chester Nimitz
http://www.nimitz-museum.org/nimitzbio.htm

Harry Truman
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/ww2/index.html

Fads and Fashions

1940's Fashion in America and Overseas
http://www.1940.co.uk/history/article/fashion/fashion.htm

British Utility Clothing
http://www.1940.co.uk/history/article/utility/utility.htm

Books and Literature

Dick And Jane Books
http://www.tagnwag.com/dick_and_jane_books.html

Irving Shaw
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ishaw.htm

Dr. Benjamin Spock
http://www.drspock.com/about/drbenjaminspock/0,1781,,00.html
 
 

Radio, Film, Music

Soundies
http://www.1940.co.uk/history/article/soundie/soundie.htm

Howdy Doody
http://www.geocities.com/howdydoody_howdy/

Pinocchio
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/pinocchio.html

Great Expectations
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/great.html

Woody Guthrie
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=115

1950-1959 


Events & Technology 
 Art & Architecture 
Books & Literature 
Education
 Fashion and Fads
 Music 
 Theater, Film, & Radio
Television
Sports 

Events & Technology

Rosa Parks
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html

Dr. Jonas Salk - Polio Vaccine
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sal0bio-1

Alaska becomes the 49th State
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7ECAP/BARTLETT/49state.html

Art & Architecture

Mark Rothko
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/intro1.shtm

William Levitt
http://www.blue-dragons.com/preserve/dahs1997/levittown.htm

Frank Lloyd Wright
http://www.franklloydwright.org/

Books & Literature

The Martian Chronicles
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue40/classic.html

Isaac Asimov
http://www.asimovonline.com/

Carl Sandberg
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brush/sand.htm
 
 

Education

Brown versus the Board of Education - Ending segregation in schools
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/

1955 Rudolph Flesch published Why Johnny Can't Read, which suggested most reading problems in the United States were the result of withholding phonics instruction from students.
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/teach/phcs.html

 Integration crisis that centered around Little Rock Central High School in 1957-58.  Information on the Little Rock Nine and Central High School
http://www.centralhigh57.org/

Fashion and Fads

Women's Fashions - 1950's
http://www.costumegallery.com/1950.htm

Patterns and Images from l950-59
http://www.sensibility.com/vintageimages/1950s/

Dale Evans - a favorite of 1950's girls
http://www.cowgirls.com/dream/cowgals/daleevans.htm

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
http://www.royrogers.com/

Drive-In Movies
http://www.americandrivein.com/

Blue Jeans
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/history/material_culture/cynth/index.html

American Bandstand
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/bandstnd.htm

Hula Hoops
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/hulahoop.html

The Nifty Fifties
http://cvip.fresno.com/%7Ejsh33/fift.html

Women's Fashions - 1950's
http://www.costumegallery.com/1950.htm

The Century in Shoes
http://www.centuryinshoes.com/home.html

Music

Rock 'N Roll
http://www.rockhall.com/home/default.asp

Elvis Presley
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/elvis.htm

The Big Bopper
http://www.tsimon.com/bopper.htm

History of Country Music
http://www.roughstock.com/history/
 
 

Theater, Film, & Radio

Eugene O'Neill - Famous playwright
http://www.eoneill.com/

The Diary of Anne Frank
http://www.annefrank.com/

Martha Graham, dancer
http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/graham.html

Nat King Cole
http://www.nat-king-cole.org/biography.html
 
 

Television

Television History - The first 75 years
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-1959.htm

Science Television - Mr Wizard
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/S/htmlS/scienceprogr/scienceprogr.htm

Father Knows Best television series
http://www.timvp.com/father.html

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet television series
http://www.timvp.com/ozzie.html

The Ed Sullivan Show
http://www.timvp.com/sullivan.html

I Love Lucy television show
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/lucy.htm

Edward R. Murrow
http://www.otr.com/murrow.html

Sports

Jackie Robinson
http://www.jackierobinson.org/aboutjackie/index03.htm

HankAaron
http://baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/aaron_hank.htm

Mildred "Babe" Didrickson Zaharias
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=177

1952 Olympics
http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0114572.html

Wilt Chamberlain
http://www.kshof.org/inductees/chamberlain.html
 
 

1960-1969

Art & Architecture 
Theatre, Film, Radio, and Television
Books & Literature
Fashion and Fads
Education
Music
Events & Technology

Art and Architecture

Buildings by I.M. Pei
http://www.bluffton.edu/%7Esullivanm/colspei/colspei.html

The Gateway Arch
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/arch.html

Alexander Calder
http://www.calder.org/

Pop Art
http://www.biddingtons.com/content/pedigreepop.html
 

Optical Art
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/styles/OpArtOpticalArt.html
 
 

Theatre, Film, Radio, and Television

Camelot
http://www.artistdirect.com/soundtracks//camelot.html

Funny Girl
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albums/albm16.htm

Sound of Music
http://www.filmsite.org/soun.html

Audrey Hepburn
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Audrey/audrey.htm

James Bond Movies
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/7272/films.html
 
 

Books and Literature

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp

Maya Angelou - poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights  activist, producer and director
http://www.mayaangelou.com/

Gloria Steinem
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=150

Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/sendak_m.html

Fashion and Fads

Skateboards
http://www.all-sports-posters.com/skateboard-history.html

Barbie
http://barbie.everythinggirl.com/

G.I. Joe
http://www.gijoelinks.com/

Troll Dolls\
http://collectdolls.about.com/library/weekly/aa120100a.htm

Bouffant Hairdo
http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/beautyandthebouffant/

Go-Go Boots
http://www.centuryinshoes.com/decades/1960/1960_02.html

Hair Styles of the 60's
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/hair-style.htm

Nehru Jacket
http://www.badfads.com/pages/fashion/nehru.html
 
 

Education

Vietnam Lotteries
http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm

Phonetic Method of Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_education
 
 

Music

Bobby Darin
http://www.bobbydarin.net/index.html

Smokey Robinson
http://www.smokeyrobinson.net/

Peter, Paul and Mary
http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/

The Beatles
http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/beatles3.html
 
 

Events and Technology

Stokely Carmichael - Civil Rights
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcarmichael.htm

Cesar Chavez
http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Ececipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhome.htm

Civil Rights Acts of 1964
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw/civilr19.htm

Fidel Castro
http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/

John F. Kennedy
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html

Lyndon Baines Johnson
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=j000160

Space Race
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/SpaceRace/sec100/sec100.htm

Alan Shepard, Jr. - first man in space
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/shepard-alan.html

John Glenn - first man to orbit Earth
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/artifacts/HS-john.htm

Neil Armstrong -  walked on the moon
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/people/astronauts/armstrong.html

Buzz Aldrin - walked on the moon
http://www.buzzaldrin.com/

Ralph Nader - Consumer Activist
http://www.multied.com/Bio/people/nader.html

Peace Corps
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn

Martin Luther King's I have a Dream Speech delievered January 1963
http://www.bbhq.com/cgi-bin/boomeryr.pl?63

1970 -1979

Art and Architecture
Books & Literature
Fads & Fashion
Education
Events & People
Music
Theatre, Film, & Television
Technology

Art and Architecture

Earthwork - Michael Heizer
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/799.html

Robert Smithson - Earthwork
http://www.robertsmithson.com/index_.htm

Land Art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_art

Andrew Wyeth
http://www.andrew-wyeth-prints.com/biography.html

Architecture - Transamerica Building
http://www.bluffton.edu/%7Esullivanm/pereira/pereira.html

Piazza d' Italia
http://www.airf.org/pages/piazza.html

Arcology
http://www.arcosanti.org/theory/arcology/intro.html

I.M. Pei, Architect
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/architects/I._M._Pei.html

Books & Literature

Joyce Carol Oates
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/jco.html

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/RBACH/seagullengl.txt

1970's Best Sellers
http://www.caderbooks.com/best70.html

I'm OK, You're Ok
http://psychology.about.com/od/shclassic/a/aa50shclassic24.htm
 
 

Fads & Fashion

Mood Rings
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question443.htm

Sea Monkeys
http://www.sea-monkeys.com/html/aboutsm/whatarethey.html

Smiley Face
http://www.s-t.com/daily/04-01/04-14-01/a04wn028.htm

Bell Bottom Pants
http://www.badfads.com/pages/fashion/bellbottom.html

Platform Shoes
http://www.wgeneration.com/frames/fad/f20.html

Leisure Suits
http://www.badfads.com/pages/fashion/leisure.html

Education

Anti-War Movement
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/antiwar.html

The Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975
http://www.nichcy.org/pubs/outprint/nd15txt.htm#edforall

History of Education PBS Series
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/index.html
 
 

Events & People

Immigration Act of 1965
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/USA/ImmigrationAct.CP.html

Women
http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm

Indian Self-Determination and Education Act
http://edworkforce.house.gov/publications/eseacomp/indseled.pdf

Watergate
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/watergate/index.html

First Earth Day
http://www.project21.org/EarthDay04History.html

Arab Oil Embargo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_energy_crisis

Three Mile Island
http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/News/1979/March/28-Three_Mile_Island.asp

Music

Disco
http://www.disco-disco.com/disco/history.html

I Love the 70's
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/i_love_the_70s/series.jhtml

Super 70's Rock Sites
http://www.superseventies.com/

Theatre, Film, & Television

Star Wars
http://www.starwars.com/

Rocky Movies
http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/Rocky/index.htm

American Graffiti
http://www.filmsite.org/amerg.html

Saturday Night Fever
http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Movies/1977/Saturday_Night_Fever.asp

Happy Days
http://www.happydaysfanclub.com/

The Brady Bunch
http://www.bradyworld.com/

Sesame Street
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/

Technology

Intel Microprocessor
http://www.intel.com/intel/intelis/museum/

Apollo 17- last manned craft to the moon
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-17/apollo-17.htm

Jumbo Jets
http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Aircraft/747.asp

Video Cassette Recorder
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0850841.html

1980-1989


Art & Architecture
Books & Literature
Fashion and Fads
Education
Events & Technology
Music & Media 
Theater, Film, and Television 

Art & Architecture

Marisol - Artist
http://www.fi.muni.cz/%7Etoms/PopArt/Biographies/marisol.html.ISO-8859-1

San Antonio Museum of Art
http://www.samuseum.org/

The Menil Collection
http://www.menil.org/home.html

High Museum of Atlanta
http://www.high.org/index_flash.html

I.M.Pei
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/pei.html
 
 

Books & Literature

Richard Simmons Never Say Diet book
http://www.richardsimmons.com/homepage.asp
 
 

Fashion and Fads

McDonald's
http://www.mcdonalds.com/

Smurfs
http://www.astrostreasurechest.net/websmurfclub/

Cabbage Patch Dolls
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/GACLEbaby.html

The 80's
http://www.80s.com/default.html

Lifestyle and Fashion History
http://www.fashion-era.com/1980s_lifestyle_and_fashion.htm

Power Dressing in the 1980's
http://www.fashion-era.com/power_dressing.htm

Education

American Council on Education
http://www.acenet.edu/

Higher Education in the Eighties
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/moddp/20293079.html
 
 

Events & Technology

Timeline of the 80's
http://www.inthe80s.com/timeline.shtml

Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96mar/oconnor.html

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
http://www.fas.org/spp/51L.html

Biography Index
http://www.biography.com/
 
 

Music & Media

Break Dancing
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC07/Dye.htm

Music of the 80's
http://www.afn.org/%7Eafn30091/80songs.html

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

Theater, Film, and Television

Back to the Future
http://www.bttf.com/index.html

Oprah Winfrey
http://www.oprah.com/

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/
 
 

1990-1999


 Art & Architecture Best Sellers
Fads & Fashion Events
Historic Documents  Music
People & Personalities Television
Theater & Film  Education

Art & Architecture

Robert Venturi, Architect
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/architects/Robert_Venturi.html

Richard Meyer - Getty Museum
http://www.meyergallery.co.uk/

Universal Design Homes
http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/

Martha Stewart - Home decor
http://www.marthastewart.com/

Native American Artists
http://www.artnatam.com/

Maya Lin - Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Maya_Lin.html

Best Sellers

Oprah's Book Club
http://www.oprah.com/books/books_landing.jhtml

John Grisham
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/grisham/

Review of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
http://www.moneyblows.com/covey.asp

Chicken Soup for the Soul
http://www.chickensoup.com/

Children's Books Award Winners in the 1990's
Newbery Award Winners - Began in 1922 (most distinguished children's book of the previous year)
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen
         Cushman
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L.
         Konigsburg
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
 Caldecott Award Winners - Began in 1938 (most distinguished children's picture book of the previous year)
1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed
         Young
1991: Black and White by David Macaulay
1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner
1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
1994: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter
         Lorraine
1995: Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting
1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
1997: Golem by David Wisniewski
1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
1999: Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by
         Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Fads & Fashion

What is Fashion?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/infocus/fashion/whatisfashion.html

Liz Claiborne
http://www.lizclaiborne.com/home/index.jsp

Dress Down Fridays
http://www.kybiz.com/lanereport/issues/may98/feature-casual.html

In Line Skating
http://www.iisa.org/

Tickle Me Elmo
http://www.sesameworkshop.com/sesamestreet/tickle/index.php

Events

Chronology of the Gulf War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/cron/

Social Security Reform
http://www.mysocialsecurity.org/indexd.html

Minimum Wage Table
http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/chart.htm

Atlanta Summer Olympics - l996
http://www.canoe.ca/Olympics/index.html

Historic Documents

American With Disabilities Act
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

North American Free Trade Agreement
http://ffas.usda.gov/itp/policy/nafta/nafta.html

Line Item Veto
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/line_item_4-9.html

Panama Canal
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/
 
 

Music

Celine Dion
http://www.celinedionusa.com/

The Mozart Effect
http://parenting-baby.com/Parenting-Baby-Music-Research/Music-Research.html

Popular Music in the 90's
http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/LIBRARY/PLAY/2000/playlist_pop_90s.html

People & Personalities

Newt Gingrich
http://www.newt.org/

Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/thomas.bio.html

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/ginsburg.bio.html

Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State
http://secretary.state.gov/

Colin Powell, Secretary of State
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/1349.htm

Sally Ride
http://store.yahoo.com/spaceimages/sallyride.html
 
 

Tiger Woods
http://www.tigerwoods.com/splash/splash.sps
 
 

Television

 The Cosby Show
http://www.cosbyshow.de/english2.html

TV Parental Guildelines
http://www.tvguidelines.org/

News Magazine Shows
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13498.shtml

Touched By An Angel tv show
http://touched.com/

Theater & Film

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Cats Musical
http://www.reallyuseful.com/rug

Mega Movie Houses
http://www.nationaltrust.org/11Most/2001/theaters.htm

Forrest Gump
http://www.fact-index.com/f/fo/forrest_gump.html

Education

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?TRACKID=&CID=82&DID=147

Year Round Schools
http://www.bctf.bc.ca/education/yrs/

Dual or Concurrent Credit
http://www.nhmccd.edu/templates/index.cfm?theme=pros&id=2097
 

Credits:
Picture of woman
http://libraries.mit.edu/music/sheetmusic/index.html
Victrola Background
http://www.victrola.com/popular.html
Fred Astaire picture
http://themave.com/Astaire/FredBio.htm
Dancers
http://bestwebs.com/roaring1920/index.shtml
Howdy Doody
http://www.geocities.com/howdydoody_howdy

1950's Headlines
http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/decade.htm

Hippie Girl
http://webclipart.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=webclipart&zu=http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/5577/60s/index.html

VW Bus with Aliens
http://webclipart.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=webclipart&zu=http://home.att.net/~scorh2/Graphics2.html

Reagan on Time Magazine Cover
http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/covers/1980.html

Pokemon
http://www.angelfire.com/retro2/lisa2/90s3.html

Pictures of Presidents
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/