Daily Life and Culture 

                   Links to every decade and major events of the century

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                                                        20th and 21st Century America Links

An extraordinarily comprehensive site created by a Social Studies teacher on the events of the 20th century.  Click on the home page for citation examples.

                                                  RETRO-The 50s, 60s, 70s, & 80s

                                                  Welcome To The Drive-In Theater

1900's

• 1900-1909 : Media History Project
• The Westinghouse World: The Companies, the People, and the Places
• The American Experience: America 1900 - PBS
• 1900-1909
• American Cultural History - Decade 1900-1909

1910's

• 1910-1919 : Media History Project
• The America Experience: The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
• The America Experience: Influenza 1918

• 1910-1919
• American Cultural History 1910 - 1919
• 1914-1920 Towards Dress Reform in Fashion History

1920'S

• 1920-1929 : Media History Project
• The 1920's Experience
• U.S. Labor History
• 1920-1929
• American Cultural History - Decade 1920-1929
• 1920 to 1930 Flapper Fashion History and Costume History
• F.Scott Fitzgerald and the 1920s Resource Page
• Flapper culture
• The Internet Guide to Jazz Age Slang
• Federal Bureau of Investigation - Al Capone
• Al Capone
• Photographs of the Great Depression

1930's

• 1930-1939: Media History Project
• New Deal Network
• Color Photographs From 1938-1944
• Voices from the Thirties
• 1930-1939
• American Cultural History - 1930-1939
• 1930s Fashion History, Costume Images and Social History
• Screwball Comedy
• The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
  

1940's

• 1940-1949 : Media History Project
• Architecture and Interior Design for 20^th Century America (1935-1955)
• WPA Life Histories
• The Forties: War and Peace
• Color Photographs From 1938-1944
• 1940-1949
• American Cultural History - Decade 1940 - 1949
• C20th Fashion History 1940-1950 - Costume History 1940s Utility to New Look
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
• Web Generation 1940's Music, Fads, Entertainment, Personalities, Memories

1950's

• Media History Timeline: 1950s
• 20th Century Fashion History: 1950s  - 20th Century costume history site for researching fashion trends of the decade 1950s
• Comics on Television in the 1950s
• Fifties Boulevard - material culture of the 1950s beginning in the late 40s including food, fashion, entertainment, sports and more.
• The Fifties
• Fifties Web
• History Channel Exhibit: The Fifties
• Mickey Mouse Club 1950s
• TV Families of the Fifties -
• TV in the 50's
• 1950-1959
• American Cultural History - 1950-1959
• 1950s Fashion History, Costume History & 50s Social History Timeline
• The Fifties Index - Oldies Music, Classic TV, Fifties History, Fifties Clothes, Burma Shave, Elvis, American Bandstand and more.
• Barbie Doll Revolutionized Toy Industry
• Web Generation 1950's Music, Fads, Entertainment, Personalities, Memories

1960's 

• 1960-1969 Media History Project
• 1960s Flashback-Economy / Prices    
• 1960s Ladies' Style Site
• 20th Century Fashion History: 1960s  - 20th Century costume history site for researching fashion trends of the decade 1960
• BBHQ: The Sixties Section - The stories, pictures, music, and news events of the baby boomer generation....
• Inside the Sixties: What Really Happened on an International Scale - The Sixties in England - The Sixties in Germany - The Sixties in the US and English Language & Theatre during the Sixties
• Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change - from the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library.
• The Sixties
• The Sixties - from Nostalgia Central  - year by year look at the decade
• The Sixties Net
• The Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
• Toys From The Sixties
• 1960-1969
• American Cultural History - 1960-1969
• Hippies on the Web, Haight-Ashbury Music and Culture
• 1960-1970 DRESSES
• THE BEATLES
• HP History and Facts: 1960s (Hewlitt Packard computer company information)
• 1960: Science and Technology information From Answers.com
• Web Generation 1960's Music, Fads, Entertainment, Personalities, Memories

1970's

• 1970-1979 : Media History Project
• 1970s Flashback-Economy / Prices    
• 20th Century Fashion History: 1970s  - 20th Century costume history site for researching fashion trends of the decade 1970
• The Seventies
• The Seventies - from Nostalgia Central  - year by year look at the decade
• Star Wars links
• Welcome to InThe70s.Com     
• Games of the 70s
• 1970-1979
• American Cultural History - 1970-1979
• watergate.info - The Scandal That Destroyed President Richard Nixon
• HP History and Facts: 1970s  (Hewlett Packard computer company information)
• 1970s information from Yale University - includes International, Domestic, Science, Technology and Arts Info
• Web Generation 1970's Music, Fads, Entertainment, Personalities, Memories

1980's

• 1980-1989: Media History Project
• 1980s Flashback-Economy / Prices       
• 20th Century Fashion History: 1980s - 20th Century costume history site for researching fashion trends of the decade 1980
• The A To Z Of The Eighties (UK)
• Movies From The Eighties
• Clothes of the Eighties Index
• The Eighties
• The Eighties - from Nostalgia Central  - year by year look at the decade
• The Eighties Club - pop culture, trivia, timelines, movies and music.
• The Eighties Server .....Timeline
• Fads of the Eighties
• Toys of the Eighties Index
• Welcome to InThe80s.Com - includes music, politics, movies, radio and TV, leisure, and other information
• 1980-1989
• American Cultural History - 1980-1989
• 1980's Fashion History, 1980s, 1990s Costume History. Glamour, glitz and power dressing.
• HP History and Facts: 1980s  (Hewlett Packard computer company information)
• 1980's information from Yale University - includes International, Domestic, Science, Technology and Arts Info
• Web Generation 1980's Music, Fads, Entertainment, Personalities, Memories

1990's

• 1990-1999: Media History Project
• 1990s Flashback-Economy / Prices    
• A Reminiscence Of The Nineties
• Welcome to the 90s
• 1990-1999
• HP History and Facts: 1990s (Hewlett Packard computer company information)
• American Cultural History - Decade 1991-1999
• Web Generation 1990's Music, Fads, Entertainment, Personalities, Memories

Music and Dance

• Classical and Contemporary Music and Their CDs/LDs
• Computer Music and MIDI
• Bob Dylan
• Beatles Ultimate Experience - Beatles Interviews, Rare Beatles Photos
• The Fab Four (Beatles)Page
• The History of Rock and Roll - The Golden Decade 1954 - 1963
• Music of the Fifties
• Oldies Music - Ron Smith's Oldies Calendar, Top Hits, Battle of the Bands and approximately a lots of links to Rock artists.
• Elvis Presley (Yahoo!)
• Richie's Classic Rock & Roll Links
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• Stones on the Net
• Sounds of the Psychedelic Sixties
• Voice of the Shuttle: 20th Century Music - Computers and Music  -  Dance
• Woodstock Festival & Concert 
• Yahoo! Music Genres: Rock and Pop

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Last updated May 10, 2007