Post-WW II America - Directory of Online Resources

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[McCarthy] - Closed-Door McCarthy Transcripts Released (May 5, 2003)

  • Senate Government Affairs Committee Prints, 107th Congress
    S. Prt. 107-84 -- Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54)
  • National Public Radio (NPR) - All Things Considered [audio or text]
    (May 5, 2003) Documents Shed Light on "Executive Sessions" "...talks with Donald Ritchie, Asssoicate [sic] Senate Historian, about the release of some 9,000 pages of previously sealed transcripts of McCarthy's closed-door interrogations from 1953 to 1954. It is the largest disclosure of documents related to the McCarthy investigation, and offers a new look at what went on behind closed doors of some 160 executive sessions."
    Includes testimony by Langston Hughes and Aaron Copland.

Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
An English class page from the University of Pennsylvania.

Senator Joseph McCarthy
A Multimedia Celebration

Brown v. Board of Education - see our separate Brown v. Board of Education page.

The Challenger Accident
"A decade after this national tragedy, the World Wide Web hosts a variety of resources reviewed at this Challenger Accident homepage, created by the Space Policy Project of the Federation of American Scientists."

Digger Archives: San Francisco 1966-68 and Beyond
"...an ongoing Web project to preserve and present the history of the anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture of the Sixties and whose actions and ideals inspired (and continue to inspire) a generation (of all ages) to create models of Free Association."

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Act - (dead link)

  • Abbie (Abbott) Hoffman - (dead link)
    "Abbie Hoffman, 1960s and 70s activist and anarchist, was Co-Founder of Youth International Party (YIP a.k.a. Yippies) and one of "Chicago Seven". He was the subject of a security investigation in 1968 in view of his anarchist actions, as well as an anti-riot law investigation as a result of his leadership in disturbances at the 1968 Democratic National Convention (DEMCON) in Chicago. (4,101 pages)

Free Speech Movement: Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65
Sections include: Collections ; Text Documents ; Media Center ; Chronology ; Bibliography.
University of Berkeley Library

[Kent State] May 4: Inquire, Learn, Reflect - May 4, 1970 - (dead link)
"In the memory of the four slain students, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, we have created this website for you to inquire into how such a tragedy could take place, to learn the vital lessons wrought from the violence on that spring day; and to reflect on ways to manage conflict among peoples, groups and nations."
Dept. of Special Collections & Archives, Kent State University

[Korean War] American RadioWorks - Korea: The Unfinished War
"To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended fifty years ago this summer. John Biewen and Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks examine the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century."
Sections include: Radio Documentary (listen to the hour-long documentary or read the full transcript) ; Oral History Archive ; The Cold War Turns Hot ; Reporter's Notebooks ; The Armed Forces Integrate ; What the Experts Say ; Maps ; Links.

[Korean War] Korean War 50th Anniversary
United States of America Commemoration
"This is the official, public access web site for the United States of America's Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War and is the starting point for all public information regarding events during the commemoration period which runs from June 25, 2000 through Nov 11, 2003."
Sections include: Events ; History ; For Teachers ; Media ; Media ; Features ; Links.

[Korean War] State-level Lists of Casualties from the Korean War (1951-1957) and Vietnam Conflict (1956-)
"The National Archives and Records Administration prepared these state level casualty lists by creating extracts from the military casualty data files in the Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Record Group 330)."
- The National Archives and Records Administration

[McCarthy] - Closed-Door McCarthy Transcripts Released (May 5, 2003)

  • Senate Government Affairs Committee Prints, 107th Congress
    S. Prt. 107-84 -- Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54)
  • National Public Radio (NPR) - All Things Considered [audio or text] (May 5, 2003)
    Documents Shed Light on "Executive Sessions"
    "...talks with Donald Ritchie, Asssoicate [sic] Senate Historian, about the release of some 9,000 pages of previously sealed transcripts of McCarthy's closed-door interrogations from 1953 to 1954. It is the largest disclosure of documents related to the McCarthy investigation, and offers a new look at what went on behind closed doors of some 160 executive sessions."
    Includes testimony by Langston Hughes and Aaron Copland.

Oakland Museum of California

  • Helen Nestor: Personal and Political
    "The exhibition presents 33 vintage black and white photographs of the California social scene of the '60s and '70s, documenting such subjects as the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, nontraditional California families, Vietnam War protests, California feminists, mid-life women, the early days of busing in the Berkeley Unified School District, street life on Telegraph Avenue and the Haight Ashbury, and the People's Park movement."
    Special Feature: Nestor Free Speech Movement Photographs

PBS - American Experience - The Kennedys (November 2003)
Companion website to the TV broadcast
"...a dramatic portrait of America's most famous political family and their repeated pursuit of the presidency."
Sections include: Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Reading ; Teacher's Guide ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events.

PBS - American Experience - The Pill (February 2003)
"The film The Pill and this companion Web site offer insights into topics in American history including advances in science and medicine, contraception, eugenics, social engineering, population trends, government involvement in legislating social behavior, conflicts between religious values and societal trends, feminist activism of the 1960s, twentieth century women's movements, women's changing roles in society, women and work, the evolving relationship of the medical profession to the lay public and the growth of the pharmaceutical industry."
Sections include: Film Description ; Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Reading ; Special Features ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events ; Teacher's Guide.

The Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc. - (dead link)
"...is a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the Sixties...We'll be collecting narratives on an ongoing basis, and we'll be publishing new ones on our Website regularly. We're looking for substantial, detailed personal stories, and we hope to hear from a wide variety of people."
Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at University of Virginia

SNCC 1960-1966
Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
"This site covers the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from its birth in 1960 to 1966, when John Lewis was replaced by Stokely Carmichael as chairman. This event marks a decided change in philosophy for SNCC, and one that warrants an equal amount of attention. However, we have focused on the first six years of the movement, in order to adequately explore such events as sit-ins, the Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer."

The Ultrasensitive Bay of Pigs:
Newly Released Portions of Taylor Commission Report Provide Critical New Details on Operation Zapata.
Edited by Peter Kornbluh ; Assisted by: Rafael Cohen, Michael Evans and Catherine Nielsen.
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 29 ; May 3, 2000

The Warren Report - (dead link)
Includes : The Complete Report ; Selection of Testimonies ; Mrs. Marina Oswald Testifies Before the Commission ; Article on a Commission Member Who May have Changed His Mind.
From Bergen County [NJ] Education and Development Center

[Watergate] University of Texas - Harry Ransom Center - Online Exhibitions

  • The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers - (dead link)

[Watergate] washingtonpost.com - Watergate Revisited
Sections include: Post Coverage ; Chronology ; Sights & Sounds ; Key Players ; Documents ; Cartoons ; Live Online ; Interactive Quiz.

Woodstock Festival - (dead link)
The Music Festival Home Page

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