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
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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
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
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
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
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/
George M. Cohan
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9910/cohan_bio.html
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
History of Recorded Music
1900-1920's
http://www.soc.duke.edu/%7Es142tm01/history2.html
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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
George Gershwin
http://www.gershwinfan.com/biogeorge.html
Fred Astaire
http://themave.com/Astaire/FredBio.htm
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/
Robert Frost
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C070C0F
Willa Cather
http://www.gustavus.edu/oncampus/academics/english/cather/
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
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/
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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
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
History of Fashion
http://www.vintageblues.com/history2.htm
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/
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
Radio Commercials
http://www.old-time.com/commercials/notsofamous_i.html
Old Time Radio Commercials
http://www.old-time.com/commercials/
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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/
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
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
Fashions
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/30fads.html
Hairstyles and dress
http://www.wharf.com/ariel/1930s_Women.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
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/
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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
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
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
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
Irving Shaw
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ishaw.htm
Dr. Benjamin Spock
http://www.drspock.com/about/drbenjaminspock/0,1781,,00.html
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
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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
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
Vietnam Lotteries
http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm
Phonetic Method of Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_education
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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/
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/
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
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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
Richard Simmons Never Say Diet book
http://www.richardsimmons.com/homepage.asp
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
American Council on Education
http://www.acenet.edu/
Higher Education in the Eighties
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/moddp/20293079.html
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/
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/
Oprah Winfrey
http://www.oprah.com/
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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
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
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
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
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/
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
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
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/
Mega Movie Houses
http://www.nationaltrust.org/11Most/2001/theaters.htm
Forrest Gump
http://www.fact-index.com/f/fo/forrest_gump.html
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
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/