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SOCIAL STUDIES: AMERICAN STUDIES: 1960-1969 - Accurate as of March 2005
Information on America from 1960-1969. Overlaps with some information discussed in the years 1900-1959. Also provides links on Charles Manson, Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson.
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AdFlip
http://www.adflip.com
Archive of print ads back to 1940; search by year, publication, or categories
Charles Manson
http://www.crimelibrary.com/manson/mansonmain.htm
Murders, confession, prosecution, afterward
The “ Chicago 7” Trial (1969-70)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html
Chronology, biographies, trial transcript, appeals, and more
CNN: Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
Interactive maps, archival footage, key players, declassified documents
Cuban Missile Crisis
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/cubanmissile/
Links to information about this subject
Cuban Missile Crisis Overview
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/r/x/rxb297/CUBA/MAIN.HTML
Information, pictures and links to other sites on this subject
First Lunar Landing as told by the Astronauts
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/FirstLunarLanding/cover.html
Post-flight press conference held by the 3 astronauts
The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll: the Golden Decade 1954-1963
http://www.history-of-rock.com/non_frames.htm
Roots and influence, record companies, teenagers and the 50s, and performers
The JFK Sounds & video Page
http://www.earthstation1.com/John_F._Kennedy.html
Kennedy sights and sounds under different topics
John F. Kennedy
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/jfk/
Links to information about him
John F. Kennedy Executive Orders
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/jfkeo.html
The executive orders issued by Kennedy during his 1,000 days paint a picture of his presidency
The Kennedy Assassination
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
Article with all types of information and links to other sites
Life Time Machines: Cover Collection
http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/covers
Search by subject, keyword, or photographer
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
Archives of photographs and recordings, interviews, President’s diary, search capability
The Murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: There never was a Camelot
http://www.crimelibrary.com/assassins/jfk/
All kinds of information on him and the assassination
NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis
http://nsa.gov/docs/cuba
Document archive and synopsis of events
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
http://www.archives.gov/
Massive collection, appropriate for advanced students
Psychedelic ‘60s: Home Page
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html
Introduction, poets, beats, rock music, social protest, illicit drugs, hippies, and more
The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
Analysis, documents, audio tapes, photographs from the National Security Archives
Rewind 1968: Democratic National Convention
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/1968/Rewind1968_DNC.html
Article about the event
Robert Kennedy Assassination: Revisions and Rewrites
http://www.crimelibrary.com/assassns/sirhan
All kinds of information on the crime and the people involved
The Secret History of the ABM Treaty, 1969-1972
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB60/press.html
Documents from the National Security Archives on this event
United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1900 to 1960; searchable by several variables
U.S. v. Cecil Price et al (1967)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/price&bowers.htm
The Mississippi Burning case of the death of 3 civil rights workers
Year by Year 1900-2001
http://www.infoplease.com/millennium1.html
Historic events of the 20 th century by year and by decade; brief decade quizzes are included
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