** Decades **

**NOTE:  Before you print you must either:

1) Highlight what you want on the webpage, go to “File” and “Print,” click the circle next to “Selection,” then “Print.”  OR

2)  Copy and paste to a Word document (to find “Word,” go to “Start” and choose “Programs.”  “MS Office” is where “Word” can be found.)   Once you have the information copied and pasted to the Word Document, you can change the size of the font to a smaller size (On the Word Document go to "Edit" then "Select All."  Click the arrow next to the font size number at the top and change the number to 10 or 8 if you can read text that small.)  OR

3) If you are in a database (Grolier, SIRS, Gale, EBSCO, ABC-CLIO etc.) use the “printer friendly” icon and you don’t have to copy and paste.

_________________________________________________________

Any Decade:

Search Tips for decades:

·        Type 1970s, 1980s or 1990s in the search bar.  Do not use an apostrophe (').

·        Use quotations "  "  around search terms with more than just one word.  Example:  "kent state" or "vietnam war"

The following are links to purchased databases (provide citations for you):

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sain46794

The following are links to websites that are reliable but are not purchased databases (you have to figure out the citation yourself):

American Cultural History - Twentieth Century: http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

American Memory - Library of Congress - Choose a decade from the top right section of the screen):

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/index.html

Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - Choose a decade:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

American Women Through Time: http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html

Authentic History Center - Primary Sources:

http://www.authentichistory.com

Chronicle of 1900-2000 (Scroll to bottom half of webpage): http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/chronicle/chronicle.html?tqskip=1

Costumes.org:

http://costumes.org/history/100pages/costhistpage.htm

Costume Gallery Research Library - Fashion through the ages - Scroll down and choose a decade on the right side:

http://www.costumegallery.com/research.htm

EASE History (Video and photographs from American history-historical events, campaign ads, core values): 

http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html

Fads & Styles 1940s - Current - Web Generation:

http://www.wgeneration.com/index.htm

Fads, Styles & Events 1940s - 2000s - Retro Housewife:

http://www.retro-housewife.com/survey-of-the-decades.html

Famous Trials:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Fashion Era - Choose a decade:

http://www.fashion-era.com/index.htm

Film History by Decade - Scroll down to middle of page:

http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html

Food Timeline:

http://www.foodtimeline.org/index.html

Google Directory - Twentieth Century:

http://www.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century

Grammy Award History (see left column under "Charts": http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy

History Central - 20th Century Year by Year:

http://www.historycentral.com/20th/index.html

History of Art Education Timeline:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/mas53/timelint.html

Infoplease - Year by Year:

http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html

Internet Movie Database "In This Year…" http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Years

It Seems Like Yesterday Magazine - 1950s to 1970s:  http://www.itseemslikeyesterday.com

Joyce Valenza's Pathfinders to The Decades.  Skip the Databases (passwords needed) and go on to the General Decade Portals, etc.:

http://doingthedecades.wikispaces.com/

MovieFolio.com (search for movies by year):  http://www.moviefolio.com/movies_1970.cfm

Multnomah Homework Center - American History: http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/amhsthc.html#20th

Music hits by year - see left column:

http://www.alaskajim.com/index.htm

The People History - Select a year using drop-down arrow on top right or a decade from the center of the page:            http://www.thepeoplehistory.com

Recipes from 1920s - 1990s:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/494071.html

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Type a decade in the search bar: http://www.rockhall.com

Television History - The First 75 Years:  http://www.tvhistory.tv/index.html

Time Magazine Covers - 1923 to Present:

http://www.time.com/time/coversearch

Time Warp - Archiving Technology Through the Decades:

http://www.time-warp.org

Timeline of American Art (Phillips Collection): http://www.phillipscollection.org/american_art/timeline.htm

Timeline of Art 1900-2001 (Metropolitan Museum of Art): http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/11sm.htm  and http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ap90/hd_ap90.htm

Timeline of Modern Art (artists.org):

http://the-artists.org/art-movements.cfm

Timelines in History:

http://timelines.ws/20thcent/TWENTIETHCENT.HTML

20th Century History by the Decade:

http://melvil.chicousd.org/decs2.html

20th Century History Timeline by about.com: http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa110900a.htm

World Wide Web Virtual Library 20th Century History: http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA

________________________________________________________

1920s & 1930s:

Search Tips for 1920s & 1930s:

·        Type 1920s or 1930s in the search bar.  Do not use an apostrophe (').

·        Use quotations "  "  around search terms with more than just one word.  Example:  "roaring twenties"

·        Type "great depression" (with quotations) not just depression.

The following are links to purchased databases (provide citations for you):

ABC-CLIO  - Select the "American History" rectangle: http://www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com/UnifiedLogin.aspx?ipaddress=true

Gale Discovering Collection: http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DC?locID=mnkspps

Gale Group Student Edition: http://find.galegroup.com/menu/start?userGroupName=mnkspps&prod=STOM

Gale Virtual Reference Library:

http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=stpaulps 

Grolier Online Encyclopedia - Go to “America the Beautiful” in left column < Timelines:

http://go.grolier.com/gol

The following are links to websites that are reliable but are not purchased databases (you have to figure out the citation yourself):

American Cultural History - The Twentieth Century 1940-1949 - Kingwood College Library's website:

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html

American Memory - Voices From the Dustbowl - Migrant Worker Collection 1940-1941 - Library of Congress' website:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/collections/vdb/history.html

American Memory - Woody Guthrie Letters 1940-1950 - Library of Congress' website:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/wwghome.html

Fads of 1940s - Crazy Fad's website:

http://www.crazyfads.com/40s.htm

Fads & Culture of the 1940s - Retro Housewife's website:

http://www.retro-housewife.com/1940-fads-and-culture.html

Fads & Fashion of the 1940s - 20th Century American History Scrapbook - Gainesville High School teacher's website:

http://www.retro-housewife.com/1940-fads-and-culture.html

Fads, Style, Memories 1940s - Web Generation's website:

http://www.wgeneration.com/1940.html

Fashion 1940s - Patterns and Images from 1940-1949 - Sense & Sensibility Clothing's website:

http://www.sensibility.com/vintageimages/1940s

Inventions 1940s - Tech Takeaway's website:

http://www.techtakeaway.com/inventions_1940s.php

Inventions 1940s - When We Were Kids' website:

http://www.wwwk.co.uk/timelines/inventions/40s/index.htm

Money and Inflation 1940s - thepeople.com's website:

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1940s.html

Movies of 1940s - Best & Worst - Internet Movie Database's website:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/1940s

Movies of 1940s - Film History of the 1940s - filmsite.org's website:

http://www.filmsite.org/40sintro.html

Movies of 1940s - Movie Timeline - myvideostore.com's website:

http://www.myvideostore.com/content/features/timeline/index.html?client=myvideostore&year=1940s

Political Systems in the 1940s - world map:

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/govt1940.htm

Timeline 1940s - about.com's website:

http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1940.htm

United States History 1940-1950 - WWW Virtual Library - University of Washington's website:

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/vl/1940s

United States in the 1940s - ThinkQuest New York City's website:

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051918/index.htm

World War II - BBC's World War Two website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo

World War II - World War 2's website:

http://www.world-war-2.info

World War II - worldwar-2.net's website:

http://www.worldwar-2.net

_________________________________________________________

1950s & 1960s:

**NOTE:  The databases for the 1950s & 1960s are at the top of this page.

The following are links to websites that are reliable but are not purchased databases (you have to figure out the citation yourself):

1950s History, Culture:

http://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/1950_history.html

1951 Cookie Recipe - Good Housekeeping Magazine:

http://www.paperpast.com/html/1950s_cookies.html

American Cultural History - 1950s & 1960s:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html

American Memory - Library of Congress 1950-1969:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?timePeriod=1950-1969

American Music 1950-2000:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/music-3.html

Crazy Fads of the 1950s & 1960s:

http://www.crazyfads.com/50s.htm

http://www.crazyfads.com/60s.htm

Costumes.org - Fashion of 1950s & 1960s links:

http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/1950INKS.HTM

http://costumes.org/history/100pages/1960links.htm

Costume Gallery - 20th Century Fashion - 1950s & 1960s fashion:

http://www.costumegallery.com/1950.htm

http://www.costumegallery.com/1960.htm

Decade Singles Chart - music of the 1950s & 1960s:

http://www.alaskajim.com/charts/decadesingles/1950s.asp

http://www.alaskajim.com/charts/decadesingles/1960s.asp

Fads, Styles & Events of the 1950s & 1960s - Retro Housewife:

http://www.retro-housewife.com/1950-fads-and-culture.html

http://www.retro-housewife.com/life-in-the-1960s.html

Fads & Styles of the 1950s & 1960s - Web Generation:

http://www.wgeneration.com/1950.html

http://www.wgeneration.com/1960.html

Fashion Era - 1950s:

http://www.fashion-era.com/1950s_glamour.htm

Fashion Era - 1960s:

http://www.fashion-era.com/1960s/index.htm

Fifties Web:

http://www.fiftiesweb.com

Film History of the 1950s & 1960s:

http://www.filmsite.org/50sintro.html

http://www.filmsite.org/60sintro.html

Food and Groceries of the 1950s & 1960s:

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50sfood.html

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60sfood.html

Food Timeline 1950s & 1960s:

http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html#1950s

http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html#1960s

Inventions of the 1950s-1970s:

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa122999a.htm

It Seems Like Yesterday Magazine - 1950s to 1970s:  http://www.itseemslikeyesterday.com

Literature & Culture of the American 1950s:

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Television History - The First 75 Years - 1950s-2000:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-1959.htm

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1960-2000.htm

Timeline of the 1950s & 1960s:

http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1950.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1960.htm

_________________________________________________________

1970s, 1980s, 1990s & Post 9/11 Project:

Search Tips for decades:

·        Type 1970s, 1980s or 1990s in the search bar.  Do not use an apostrophe (').

·        Use quotations "  "  around search terms with more than just one word.  Example:  "kent state" or "vietnam war"

The following are links to purchased databases (provide citations for you):

The following are links to websites that are reliable but are not purchased databases (you have to figure out the citation yourself):

American Cultural History - Twentieth Century: http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

American Women Through Time: http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html

Avalon Project at Yale Law School - 20th Century Documents: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htm

Avalon Project at Yale Law School - 21st Century Documents:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/21st.htm

Chronicle of 1900-2000 (Scroll to bottom half of webpage): http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/chronicle/chronicle.html?tqskip=1

EASE History (Video and photographs from American history-historical events, campaign ads, core values): 

http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html

Eighties Club:

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com

80s Server:

http://www.80s.com/resources.html

Fashion Era 1970-1980:

http://www.fashion-era.com/1970s/index.htm

Fashion Era 1980-1999:

http://www.fashion-era.com/fashion_after1980.htm

Food of the 70s, 80s & 90s:

http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/food.shtml

Grammy Award History (see left column under "Charts": http://www.rockonthenet.com/grammy

History Central - 20th Century Year by Year:

http://www.historycentral.com/20th/index.html

History of Art Timeline 1970s: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mas53/timln970.html

History of Art Timeline 1980s:  http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/m/a/mas53/timln980.html

History of Art Timeline 1990s:  http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/m/a/mas53/timln990.html

Infoplease Year by Year:

http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html

Internet Movie Database "In This Year…" http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Years

MovieFolio.com (search for movies by year):  http://www.moviefolio.com/movies_1970.cfm

Multnomah Homework Center - American History: http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/amhsthc.html#20th

National Museum of American History: 

http://americanhistory.si.edu

Online Books - Search by Subject Screen (good for wars, terrorism and other topics):

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - 1970s-1990s: http://www.rockhall.com/teacher/resources-1970

Super Seventies Archive:

http://www.superseventies.com/archives.html

Television History - The First 75 Years (1960-2000): http://www.tvhistory.tv/1960-2000.htm

Timeline of American Art (Phillips Collection): http://www.phillipscollection.org/american_art/timeline.htm

Timeline of Art 1900-2001 (Metropolitan Museum of Art): http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/11sm.htm  and http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ap90/hd_ap90.htm

Timeline of Modern Art (artists.org):

 http://the-artists.org/art-movements.cfm

20th Century History by the Decade:

http://melvil.chicousd.org/decs2.html 

20th Century History Timeline by about.com: http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa110900a.htm

Twentieth Century United States Peace Movements (go to "Web Resources"):

http://www.wmich.edu/library/cg/370/#Web%20Resources

20th Century - Wikipedia (Can have good info, but be cautious

since anyone can edit Wikipedia’s entries.  NOTE:  In left column see “Cite this article” for citation.):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century

World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW-VL) 20th Century History:

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA

*******************************************************************

MLA Citation Guideline Sheets

http://comosr.spps.org/mla