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Resources
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JFK and the Cold War

Links

• Museum of Broadcast Communications
• NARA's JFK Assassination Records
• The Authentic History Center
• The Greatest Films
• CIA
• Cold War from Mount Holyoke College
• Foreign Policy during the Cold War
• The National Security Archive
• JFK Library

JFK Video/DVD:

• JFK: A Presidency Revealed, (2003) History Channel: 2 discs, approximately 5 hours.  The most recent documentary on the Kennedy years.
• JFK Remembered: A Special Look at John F. Kennedy’s 1,000 Days as President, (1988) Hosted by Peter Jennings, ABC News, Vestron Video, 54 minutes.
• Jack: The Last Kennedy Film, (1993), CBS/Fox Video, 90 minutes.  Unusual documentary narrated by friends and associates of JFK’s.
• The Making of the President: 1960.  A classic documentary based on Theodore H. White’s book.  Not available but check with JFK Library. Great footage on the 1960 campaign, especially the first Kennedy-Nixon debate.
• Primary: The Robert Drew Collection, (2003), Docu Rama Video/New Video Group, Inc. 53 minutes.  Classic documentary footage on the Wisconsin Primary.  No narration, but extremely useful for examining the old primary system.
• Crisis: The Robert Drew Collection, (2003)  New Video Group, Inc. 53 minutes.  Excellent footage of the 1963 struggle to desegregate the University of Alabama.
• The PBS President’s Collection: The Kennedys – The American Experience, DVD.  Excellent study of the Kennedy family including JFK’s presidency and careers of Robert and Edward Kennedy.
• JFK’s American University Speech: “Toward a Strategy of Peace,” May 1963.  Video available from the JFK Library.
• Vietnam: A Television History: American Mandarin, 1954-1963.  Excellent coverage of Vietnam crisis under Eisenhower and JFK.

Jeffersonian America

Links

• Mock Ratification Debate: Louisiana Purchase (PDF)
• Chronology (PDF)
• Jefferson's Confidential Letter to Congress (PDF)
• Jefferson and the American West Select Bibliography (PDF)
• Select Bibliography for the Early American Republic (PDF)
• Monticello
• Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns
• Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
• The Declaration of Independence

Revolutionary War

Links

• From Revolution to Reconstruction - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm
• American War of Independence - www.americanrevolution.org
• Archiving Early America - www.earlyamerica.com
• EdSitement (Marco Polo) - www.edsitement.neh.gov
• Constitution Society - www.constitution.org
• The American Revolution: National Discussions of our Revolutionary Origins - www.revolution.h-net.msu.edu
• Texts and Technology - www.longman.awl.com/nash
• NARA: The Digital Classroom - www.nara.gov/education/cc/main.html
• Spy Letters of the American Revolution - www.clements.umich.edu/spies
• The Avalon Project - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
• Independence Hall Assoc of Philadelphia - www.ushistory.org
• The History Place: The Past into the Future - www.historyplace.com
• Boston Massacre info - www.law.umkc.edu
• The Boston Tea Party - www.bostonteaparty.nl/
• Web de Anza: Archive of Primary Source Documents http://Anza.uoregon.edu/archives.html
• www.msstate.edu/archives/history
• Library of Congress: George Washington papers - www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/
• H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online - www.h-net.msu.edu
• State of Delaware - www.state.de.us
• American National Biography – http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html
• Digital History - www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
• Accessible Archives Inc. - www.accessible.com
• Delaware Public Archives – www.archives.state.de.us

Films about Revolution:

• Mary Silliman’s War
• Martha Ballard
• Johnny Tremain
• Revolution!
• Liberty!
• Last of the Mohicans
• The Crossing

Books about Revolution:

• “The Shoemaker and the Tea Party”, Alfred Young
• “The Way of Duty”, Richard Buell

Reform in the Progressive Era

Links

• “Wealth” by Andrew Carnegie – www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/carnegie.htm
• Emma Golman (1869-1940), major figure in history of American radicalism & feminism - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
• The Dramas of Haymarket, from the Chicago Historical Society - http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/overview/over.htm
• World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 from Illinois Institute of Technology - http://columbus.iit.edu/
• World’s Columbian Exposition, documents assembled by Jim Zwick - http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/columbian.html
• 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia - http://libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol/index.htm
• Anti-Imperialism in the US, 1898-1935, by Jim Zwick – An impressive collection of essays, pamphlets, speeches, cartoons, and literature. - http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/index.html
• Child Labor in America, 1908-1912, photographs and captions by Lewis W. Hine - http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
• 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
• “Votes for Women” – photographs, cartoons, and other images relating to the campaign for woman suffrage - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
• National American Woman Suffrage Collection, 1848-1920 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
• “Up from Slavery”, by Booker T. Washington - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/WASHINGTON/toc.html
• “The Souls of Black Folk”, by W.E.B. DuBois - http://www.bartleby.com/114/index.html
• The Emergence of Advertising in America:1850-1920, from the Hartmann Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History, Duke University - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
• The Ad* Access Project: 20th Century advertisements, organized in categories, from Duke University’s Hartmann Center. - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
• Links to women’s history primary materials - http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/

Books on the Progressive Era:

• “The Search for Order”, Robert Wiebe
• “Education and the Cult of Efficiency”, Callahan
• “Protecting Soldiers and Mothers”, Theda Skocpol
• “Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform”, Robin Muncy
• “Pitied but not Entitled”, Linda Gordon
• “Atlantic Crossings”, Daniel Rodgers
• “How the Other Half Lives” (1890), Jacob A. Riis

World War II

Links

• Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II - http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html
• World War II posters from Northwestern University - http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/
• A Brief History of Japanese Americans in the United States from the University of Hawaii - http://hypatia.slis.hawaii.edu/~jacso/DL/webliography/jan/final.htm
• A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust – Documents - http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/document.htm
• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI), 1935-1945 – nearly 45,000 images - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Reconstruction

Links

• National Archives featuring US History documents and lesson plans - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
• Hanover Historical Text Project - http://history.hanover.edu/project.html
• From Revolution to Reconstruction - http://odur.let.rug.nl/usanew/D/
• AmDocs - http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
• Documenting the American South - http://docsouth.unc.edu/

FDR: The Great Depression & The Coming of WWII

Links

• New Deal Network Document Library (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute)
• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI), 1935-1945 – nearly 45,000 images
• The New Deal Network – about 3000 items including photographs, political cartoons, speeches and letters
• FDR Presidential Library and Museum – extensive digital archives
• Digital History
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History – includes materials for teachers and students
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (from the Library of Congress)
• EdSitement – from the National Endowment for the Humanities – includes lesson plans
• PBS Video Database of America’s History and Culture
• The Concord Review: Essays by High School Students from Twenty Countries
• Dave Leip’s Atlas of US Presidential Elections
• The American Presidency Project
• Dorothea Lange Photos
• Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, & Broadcasters during World War II
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Reading Room
• Inventing America: Online Tutor
• "Show me the Money": The Great Depression

   

1950s Resources

Links

• Cartoon Drawings
• Coca-Cola Advertising/History page
• TV History
• The Literature & Culture of the American 1950's
• Fifties Web
• The 1950's
• 50's Timeline
• The Prelinger Archives
• 'Atomic Bomb' Film Site
• Music about the Atom Bomb
• Authentic History - Great source of audio, video and images on all decades of American History