INTRO
As you research your presentation, this pathfinder will guide you toward useful sites. Now, it doesn't find the websites for you (you're upperclassmen, after all!), but it does suggest USEFUL places to start searching for reliable, authoritative information.
REFERENCE:
American Decades
History in Dispute
The Beat Generation
The Cold War
Women's Almanac
Civil Rights Movement
BOOKS:
I will put several books on reserve, for overnight checkout only.
Eyewitness History: 1950's
Halberstan, The Fifties
Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos
The Fifties in Photographs
All Shook Up: History of Rock 'n Roll
The Beats
Critical Issues in American History: 1945 to 1990
DATABASES:
Remember, many of the database will also contain images. From home, you will need the password.
History Study Center
Issues in US History
Safari Montage (online video. Only available in school. If you haven't used the database before, click the "I am a new user" link and create an account. Use your first-class log in, so you'll remember it.) )
American History in Video
Historical Newspapers
PORTALS
Best in History
History Matters
Internet History Sourcebook
World History Archives
Historynet.com: (Better viewed from home as many of the images are blocked at school)
Virtual Learning Resource Center
Librarians' Internet Index
Chronoscope: A television political interview series in the 50's. This is a collection of the transcripts, by year, located in the National Archives.
SEARCHING FOR IMAGES
Remember, you must
1) Use only rights-friendly sources and
b) Cite the image appropriately
Suggestions for finding images:
1) I give you links to several places with rights-friendly images.
2) If those don't work.
a) Go to Google Images
b) Click on "advanced search"
c) In the "Usage Rights" pop-up menu choose "labeled for reuse"
d) Type in your search terms, and hit return. This will produce images you can legally use.
Image Sites:
Life Magazine Archive The 50's link only has images of Walt Disney, for some reason. Do a keyword search for better results.
AP Images
Click on Images>Historical and search their collection of older photos. They even have an "Iconic" group of photos--with many you'll recognize! Or do a keyword search.
NYPL Digital Gallery
Authentic US History Center
Duke University Digital Collection
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