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President's Daily Briefs from Kennedy and Johnson Finally Released (Eight Years After Archive, Pro(285 clicks)

10 recessions that the U.S. has experienced since the end of the WWII.(304 clicks)

1948: Year of Turmoil(305 clicks)
Truman Library

1954 How to dial your phone by Bell System (597 clicks)
movie clip

1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debates(354 clicks)
A kinescope of the John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon presidential debate.

1960s Audio Files(311 clicks)
Internet Archive

1968(317 clicks)
The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968

1970-1979 Radio News(317 clicks)

2,100 Henry Kissinger "Memcons" Recounting the Secret Diplomacy of the Nixon-Ford Era(292 clicks)
National Security Archives

A Visit to Yesterland: Disneyland(542 clicks)
Disneyland as it was

Ad*Access Project(283 clicks)
"The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955."

AdViews(314 clicks)
AdViews AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D'Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. Commercials will be added in phased batches over several months in 2009. The commercials are a part of the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives found at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

Alger Hiss Story(309 clicks)
"The Alger Hiss Story" Web site has been created with grants from The Alger Hiss Research and Publication Project of the Nation Institute and from a Donor Advised Fund at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona. This Web site recreates one of the most important legal cases in this country's history, often cited as a turning point in 20th century American thinking. The Web site is dedicated to students of recent American history at all levels, including high school, college, and post-graduate work; to the research community of scholars, archivists, and teachers; and to a wide general audience - to all who Search for the Truth.

Alladin Readi-Cut Homes(304 clicks)

America 4 Life(283 clicks)
American Facts, History and important documents, and an all round account of america in the twentieth century

American Cultural History: 1980-89(282 clicks)
The 1980s became the Me! Me! Me! generation of status seekers. During the 1980s, hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and mega-mergers spawned a new breed of billionaire. Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, and Ivan Boesky iconed the meteoric rise and fall of the rich and famous. If you've got it, flaunt it and You can have it all! were watchwords. Forbes' list of 400 richest people became more important than its 500 largest companies. Binge buying and credit became a way of life and 'Shop Til you Drop' was the watchword. Labels were everything, even (or especially) for our children. Tom Wolfe dubbed the baby-boomers as the 'splurge generation.' Video games, aerobics, minivans, camcorders, and talk shows became part of our lives. The decade began with double-digit inflation, Reagan declared a war on drugs, Kermit didn't find it easy to be green, hospital costs rose, we lost many, many of our finest talents to AIDS which before the decade ended spread to black and Hispanic women, and unemployment rose. On the bright side, the US Constitution had its 200th birthday, Gone with the Wind turned 50, ET phoned home, and in 1989 Americans gave $115,000,000,000 to charity. And, Internationally, at the very end of the decade the Berlin Wall was removed - making great changes for the decade to come! At the turn of the decade, many were happy to leave the spendthrift 80s for the 90s, although some thought the eighties TOTALLY AWESOME.

American Motel(329 clicks)
Most of these motels hail from the Middle Era of Motorized Mobility, the 50s and 60s. There were motels in the 20s and 30s, but they were likely to be a collection of shanties and cabins with a humble sign out front. In the 50s and 60s the sign took on great prominence; it was a way of establishing identity and rank even when no other feature of the motel was unique. The sign didn’t just sell the place; it was the place.

American Roots Music(418 clicks)

Are You Experienced?? A Trip Through the Sixties(277 clicks)

Atom Bomb [Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month](296 clicks)

Awesome 80s(300 clicks)
1980s nostalgia site.

Beat Generation(289 clicks)

Budgets and Deficits(340 clicks)
Few issues in American politics are as misunderstood as the national deficit and debt. On one hand, supply-siders claim that the debt is insignificant; on the other, Ross Perot claims that it's a national disaster. The numbers say it's neither.

CIA Family Jewels(305 clicks)
Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years, Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents

Classic Television Commercials(337 clicks)

Clio's Favorites: Leading historians of the United States, 1945-2000(277 clicks)
Interesting book reviews

Comic Books of the 1950s(305 clicks)
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Consumer Spending: 1950s(360 clicks)

Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America(449 clicks)
Scholarly book by Neil Jumonville

Devotion to the Chief(273 clicks)
"President Harry S. Truman relied heavily on Dean Acheson for his most significant foreign policy achievements." by Robert L. Beisner

Did Reagan Propose Higher Spending?(304 clicks)

Documents Relating to the Iran/Contra affair(279 clicks)
The sordid story

Dubious Secrets(293 clicks)
What is classifies as national security--including a joke about Santa Claus!

Early Radio History(326 clicks)

Eyewitness, 1948(311 clicks)
'The Story of Television' of WNBT's 'Eye Witness'

Famous People Investigated by the FBI(279 clicks)
FBI files. Many show J. Edgar Hoover's obsessions.

Fifty Years From Trinity(282 clicks)
The Seattle Times traces the history of the atom bomb and of nuclear energy.

Francis Gary Powers(309 clicks)
Eisenhower, the U2 spy plane, and Francis Gary Powers.

Free Speech Movement, 1964-65(503 clicks)
Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65.

Freedom’s Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953(260 clicks)
"From 1939 to 1953 the Library underwent a myriad of changes that established the institution as one of America’s foremost citadels of intellectual freedom."

From Pearl Harbor to Elvis: Images That Endure(475 clicks)
By Ellen Fried

GNP, Population, National Debt--1960-1990(291 clicks)
Graphic image showing the growth of the GNP, National Debt, and Population.

Gulf War, 1990-1991(436 clicks)
PBS special on events leading to and on the Gulf War

Hindsight: The Hard Hat Riot on 1970(307 clicks)
On May 8, 1970, construction workers in New York City attacked and beat anti-Vietnam War demonstrators. This site explores why and the consequences.

History of Television(544 clicks)
by Mitchell Stephens

http://www.archive.org/details/Century21964(328 clicks)
Romp through the futuristic landscape of the Seattle World's Fair, centered in the Bell System pavilion.

In Nixon tapes, Billy Graham refers to 'synagogue of Satan' (303 clicks)
USA Today article

IRAN CONTRA AT 25: REAGAN AND BUSH 'CRIMINAL LIABILITY' EVALUATIONS(345 clicks)

Iran-Contra 20 Years On(332 clicks)
Documents Spotlight Role of Reagan, Top Aides. Pentagon Nominee Robert Gates Among Many Prominent Figures Involved in the Scandal.

John Bull & Uncle Sam(623 clicks)
Popular Culture: from Baseball to Rock and Roll

Kefauver Committee(319 clicks)
Estes Kefauver, Democratic Senator from Tennessee, investigated organized crime, specifically Murder, Inc.

Kennedy-Nixon Debates(322 clicks)
A kinescope of the John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon presidential debate.1960

Kent State Shootings(318 clicks)
"Kent State University was placed in an international spotlight after a tragic end to a student demonstration against the Vietnam War and the National Guard on May 4, 1970. Shortly after noon on that Monday, 13 seconds of rifle fire by a contingent of 28 Ohio National Guardsmen left four students dead, one permanently paralyzed, and eight others wounded. Not every student was a demonstration participant or an observer. Some students were walking to and from class. The closest student wounded was 30 yards away from the Guard, while the farthest was nearly 250 yards."

King Kong: The Monster Who Created Universal Studios Florida(262 clicks)
By Peter Alexander of the Totally Fun Company

Kissinger's Secret Trip to China(296 clicks)

LBJ Fights the White Backlash(942 clicks)
The Racial Politics of the 1964 Presidential Campaign By Jeremy D. Mayer

Levitate the Pentagon (1967)(448 clicks)
Photos of the 1967 Pentagon March.

Limited Test Ban Treaty - 50 Years Later(372 clicks)
New Documents Throw Light on Accord Banning Atmospheric Nuclear Testing

Los Braceros, 1942-64(274 clicks)

LSD and the CIA(306 clicks)
How the CIA experimented with LSD.A

Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism(307 clicks)
Fascism

Malls of America(282 clicks)

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius(288 clicks)
Subtitle: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83. Book by Tim Hodgdon.

Meltdown at Three Mile Island(277 clicks)
From PBS. Nuclear power plant failure

Mercury 9 mission(352 clicks)
audio files

Mercury Orbits the Earth(287 clicks)
February 20, 1962 and John Glenn orbits the earth.

Monumental Disagreements(302 clicks)
"In this episode of BackStory we will look at some of the most controversial monuments and memorials spattered across America’s landscape. We’ll tell you why one statue was torn down, beheaded, and turned into bullets, and how one of our favorite historical landmarks may just be the result of one man on an ego trip."

My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt(365 clicks)

Myths of Reaganomics, The(344 clicks)
By Murray N. Rothbard. Published by the conservative Ludwig von Mises Institute

NBC News, March 17, 1949(307 clicks)
NBC News Room Chicago - Clifton Utley The News on March 17, 1949 included: - Willis-Overland Cuts Car Prices By 10%, - New Rent Bill Increase Prices 10%, - Italian Communists Riot To Block The Atlantic Pact, - Truman To Give News Conference, - Pullman Strike Set For March 31st, - Sports News, ...

New Documents Throw Light on Sensitive Ford and Kissinger Views(338 clicks)

Nixon and Khrushchev Kitchen Debate(291 clicks)

Nixon and the bomb: “I just want you to think big, Henry!”(315 clicks)

Nixon-Kennedy Debates, 1960(298 clicks)
A kinescope of the John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon presidential debate.

Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970 – 1974(290 clicks)
"This Web site is based on an exhibition, Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970 – 1974, of 121 photographs by Washington, D.C., freelance photographer Fred J. Maroon. "

Photographs from the Sixities(298 clicks)

Psychedelic Sixties(287 clicks)

Reagan's Spending Pattern(274 clicks)
A graphic showing Reagan's increase of spending and of the national debt.

Regulated Enterprise(292 clicks)
Natural Gas Pipelines and Northeastern Markets, 1938–1954. Christopher James Castaneda

Rewind the Fifties Links(292 clicks)
Lots of links for 1950s nostalgia.

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel(282 clicks)
FBI files

Rural Civil Defense Spots, 1965(295 clicks)

Sandra Day O'Connor: A Life of Action(295 clicks)
by Meryl Justin Chertoff, Director of the Sandra Day O'Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary at Georgetown Law

Science and the Post-Cold War(284 clicks)
"Science and technology were an integral part of the arms races during the cold war period. They were both an engine for new weapons developments, such as new generation nuclear warheads and laser technology, as well as an instrument in the hand of strategists requiring additional capabilities."

Science, Technology and the CIA(321 clicks)

Sears Catalog--1971(286 clicks)
It came from the 1971 Sears Catalog! Some images of a bygone time.

Seeing Red, from "City Upon a Hill"(296 clicks)
The American History Guys share a little-known story about that time Joseph Stalin coined the term “American Exceptionalism."

Sixties(326 clicks)
American Cultural History: 1960 - 1969

Sixties, The(313 clicks)

Snitch(368 clicks)
"'Snitch' investigates how a fundamental shift in the country's anti-drug laws -- including federal mandatory minimum sentencing and conspiracy provisions--has bred a culture of snitching that is in many cases rewarding the guiltiest and punishing the less guilty."

Standard of Living Increases in the 1960s(274 clicks)
Diet changes and acquisition of appliances.

Student Rebellion in the Sixties(282 clicks)
Brief, thoughtful essay.

Studies in Intelligence: New Articles from The CIA's In-House Journal(338 clicks)

Studs Terkel(297 clicks)
Conversations

Ten Economic Paragraphs Worth Reading: December 27, 2009(311 clicks)
The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist J. Bradford DeLong: Fair, Balanced, Reality-Based, and Even-Handed

The '80s TV Theme SuperSite(282 clicks)
"This site represents one of the largest collections of '80s television history on the internet. More than anything, it is a place for the nitty gritty...like an obscure advertising jingle that has more sap than a Vermont tree, but is a priceless reflection of the zeitgeist. It is a favorite among many in "the business" not because of the usual primetime themes, but because of the mundane you'll find in the Potpourri, Promos, and Commercials sections. "

The 1970s(327 clicks)
The Super70s.com Web site offers info about music, mnvies, culture, science, sports, etc.

The Area 51 File: Secret Aircraft and Soviet MiGs(355 clicks)

The Blackout History Project(273 clicks)
Two massive blackouts in the New York City metropolitan area, one in 1965, the other in 1977. This site allows people to tell of their personal experiences of the blackout as well as offering traditional historical accounts.

The Changing Face of the Supreme Court in American History(280 clicks)
A.E. Dick Howard is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Law. He analyses the changes in the Supreme Court from the Warren Court of the 1960s to the Rehnquist era.

The G.I. Bill(266 clicks)
After WWII, over 2 million former armed forces personnel received goverment benefits.

The Jonestown Death Tape (FBI No. Q 042)(1174 clicks)

The Kennedy Assassination(408 clicks)
By John McAdams. "This web site is dedicated to debunking the mass of misinformation and disinformation surrounding the murder of JFK. If you are believer in Oswald as a lone gunman, you are likely to enjoy this web site, since most of that misinformation and disinformation has come from conspiracists. But if you are a sophisticated conspiracist, you likely understand that the mass of silly nonsense in conspiracy books and documentaries does no service to the cause of truth in the assassination, and simply buries the "case for conspiracy" under layers of bunk."

The Living Room Candidate(299 clicks)
A history of presidential campaign commercials, 1952-2000

The Oliver North File: His Diaries, E-Mail, and Memos on the Kerry Report, Contras and Drugs(307 clicks)

The Psychedelic Sixties(378 clicks)
Literary tradition and social change.

The Secret History of the U-2 — and Area 51(386 clicks)

The Sixties Net(292 clicks)
Variety of items for the 1960s, many not historical.

The Sixties Project(597 clicks)
"The Sixties Project began as a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the Sixties."

The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore, Pt. 1(270 clicks)
# Historian James T. Patterson discusses his book Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore. He looks at the United States during the final quarter of the twentieth century, from the 1970s to the election of 2000. This is part one of a two-part lecture.

The Whole World Was Watching(305 clicks)
An oral history of 1968.

The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968(343 clicks)
The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968 is a joint project between South Kingstown High School and Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group. The project was sponsored by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and NetTech: the Northeast Regional Technology in Education Consortium. The resource contains transcripts, audio recordings, and edited stories of a series of interviews conducted in the spring of 1998. Members of the Sophomore Class at SKHS interviewed Rhode Islanders about their recollections of the year 1968. Their stories, which include references to the Vietnam War, the struggle for Civil Rights, the Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy as well as many more personal memories are a living history of one of the most tumultuous years in United States history.

Time Capsule: Objects in History(268 clicks)
"TIME CAPSULE objects in history By Margaret Fortier Although today's travelers and commuters may pass them on a regular basis, few among the post-World War II generation are aware of the remarkable display of friendship between the United States and her oldest ally, France, that is represented by the strange-looking little boxcars that can be seen in such diverse places as the Montana state capitol grounds in Helena; outside the American Legion Post in Helms, Arkansas; and at Pennsylvania's Fort Indiantown Gap."

Trivial Complaints(331 clicks)
'Subtitle: The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. Book by Kirsten S. Rambo

U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection(334 clicks)
" The collection consists of almost 1.2 million original 35mm and 2 1/4 inch negatives (primarily black & white) and 45,000 contact sheets donated by the U.S. News & World Report, Inc. The collection is primarily photographs taken by staff of the U.S. News & World Report Magazine between 1952 and 1986"

Vanderbilt Television News Archive (331 clicks)
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. We have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968.

Vogue Picture Records(310 clicks)

We Choose the Moon(326 clicks)
Apollo 11 moon landing with audio and photos

What Was Really Great About The Great Society(286 clicks)
By Joseph A. Califano Jr.

When Nixon Met Elvis(313 clicks)

William Gedney Photographs And Writings(320 clicks)
From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the indolent lifestyle of hippies in Haight-Ashbury to the sacred rituals of Hindu worshippers, Gedney was able to record the lives of others with remarkable clarity and poignancy.

Wiretap Debate Déjà Vu(306 clicks)
Documents show Ford White House embraced wiretap law instead of claiming "inherent" Presidential authority in 1976 despite objections from Rumsfeld, G.H.W. Bush, Kissinger Web posting includes Justice report on criminal liability for 1970s warrantless wiretapping, 1990s directives on US surveillance.

Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection(280 clicks)
American Folklife Center

WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1980-1989(354 clicks)

Your Hit Parade, February 27, 1954(312 clicks)
Video

Zorro - A history of the series(664 clicks)
The series of the 1950s