Large set of well-organized links to resources related to the culture and
politics of the 1950's. Lots of primary materials and personal observations
of the events and issues.
1950s-1970s: Social Reform - http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/topics6.html
Calisphere is the University of California's online collection of primary source materials about California history. This particular page takes you to documents about the civil rights movement, the Free Speech movement, Watts, and the struggle for social justice.
Online course resources for an honors course on 1950s at the University
of Maryland. Includes sections on general information, plus literary, music,
movies, consumer culture, science and technology.
The popular culture of 1950s explored on this Web site. Links are provided
to television, music, movies, and Elvis!
Eisenhower
Center - http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/abilene/ikectr.html
Information about the man who was president from 1953 to 1961. Also has
links to Eisenhower as a military leader during World War II. (University
of Kansas)
This is a chapter in the life of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL),
a nuclear laboratory, which is examined with respect to American culture
of the decade of the Fifties.
Many Web resources relating to the Cold War. "These links are to webpages
which other people have created and like most things on the net, they run
the entire spectrum of political thought and vary greatly in quality. Nonetheless,
they do provide web-surfers with some interesting views and information
on the Cold War and the National Security State."
Yahoo!
Cold War - http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/Cold_War/
Yahoo's links to Web sites about the Cold War. Included are the subtopics
of: Berlin Airlift, Conferences; Cuban Missile Crisis, Espionage, Hollywood
Blacklist, Korean War, McCarthyism, Nuclear Arms Race, Red Scare, Space
Race, and Vietnam War.
"At the end of World War II, a rivalry began between the United States
and the Soviet Union called the Cold War. Learn more about the Cold War
through these resources."
CNN:
Cold War - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/
CNN has provided this site as a complement to its special on the Cold War.You
can investigate each of the series' 24 episodes, investigate the Cold War
experience through links to culture, technology, espionage and "the bomb."
There is also a a collection of reference materials, a place to debate
abd discuss issues, a page to test your knowledge and an educator's guide
to the topic.
Cold
War - http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html
This site from the Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit examines
the postwar U.S.-Soviet split. It includes hypermedia versions of three
documents important to the relationship between the two superpowers.
"The Cold War Museum is ... dedicated to education, preservation, and research
on the global, ideological, and political confrontations between East and
West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union."
Their Web site includes timelines and a Spy
Tour of Washington, D.C.
The
Berlin Wall- http://www.webster.monroe.edu/spry/BerlinWall.html
This Web site has links to several different sites with information about
the wall built between East and West Berlin by the Germans in 1961 and
eventually torn down in 1989. Developed for an 8th grade German class by
their teacher Christine Dunne.
The German Propaganda Archive, sponsored by Calvin College, "includes both
propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists.
The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems
of the 20th century [nazism and communism] by giving them access to the
primary material."
One person's account of the war, causes and effects. Korean account of
history from 1930 to 1955. Contains photos and excerpts from recently declassified
US, Chinese, and Russian documents.
This site is "dedicated to all those who served their country during the
Korean War, especially those who paid the ultimate price and those who
suffered as POWs."
This site has links to all sorts of information about nuclear energy issues
including physics, reactors, medical, waste, testing, opposition, engineering,
fusion, government, universities, data, and jobs. One link is toWeaponswhich
discusses all aspects of atomic and nuclear weapons from World War II to
the present.
"TRACES of the Atomic Age is the digital on-line version of a complex multimedia
project that reconstructs and represents fragments of information of the
Atomic Age.... The TRACES website serves as an expanding database of information
that invites discussion of issues related to the Atomic Age."
"The Committee on Nuclear Policy is a unique collaborative effort by the
directors of over fifteen independent research projects. The Committee
facilitates cooperation among the projects so that their expertise and
analyses can be made available to journalists, policy analysts, and policy-makers
in a timely and usable fashion. The Committee is a joint project
housed at the Henry L. Stimson Center."