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History & Popular Culture: Links

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History • Popular Culture

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• History: U. S.: 19th C., 20th C., Impeachment, General | World: General | Vietnam | Urban Legends
  • United States: Nineteenth Century
    • Lincoln / Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project (Northern Illinois University)
    • Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (American Memory, Library of Congress)
  • United States: Twentieth Century
    • This American Life (Ira Glass' weekly radio show on NPR)
    • By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (Library of Congress's American Memory site)
    • The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
    • World War II Resources on the Internet (MiamiLINK)
    • The American 1950s (U Penn)
    • Conelrad: All Things Atomic
    • David Price's Cold War Hot Links: Web Sources Relating to the Cold War (St. Martin's College)
    • International Spy Museum (Washington, D.C.)
    • Michigan State University Libraries' American Radicalism collection
    • Vietnam War (see "Vietnam" links, below)
    • Tolerance.org (a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center)
  • United States: Impeachment
    • The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (sponsored by Harper's Weekly)
    • History and Politics Out Loud
    • Move On: Organization that encouraged politicians to listen to the electorate (during the Clinton impeachment) and to move on.
    • Articles of Impeachment (at the New York Times)
    • Impeachment and Censure Materials Online (at JURIST: The Law Professors' Network). Recommended.
    • Issue In Depth: The President Under Fire (at the New York Times)
  • United States: General
    • History and Politics Out Loud (includes tapes and transcripts of Nixon, Kennedy, Martin Luther King)
    • The Library of Congress
    • American Memory ("Historical Collections for the National Digital Library," at the Library of Congress)
    • The Smithsonian Institution Home Page
    • American Studies Electronic Crossroads (Georgetown University)
    • Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
    • The Smoking Gun
  • World: General
    • Biographical Dictionary
    • Distinguished Women of Past and Present (a great resource)
    • Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
    • TheHistoryNet.com ("Where History Lives on the Web")
    • The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
    • London Transport Museum
  • Vietnam
    • Vietnam War: Historical Text Archive
    • Vietnam War History Page (Virginia Tech. University)
    • Vietnam War Memorial
    • Vietnam War: 25 Years After (College of Charleston)
    • Gregory L Vistica, "One Awful Night in Thanh Phong" (New York Times, 25 Apr. 2001). About former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey's involvement in the killing of Vietnamese civilians. Includes a slide show and links to related articles.
  • Urban Legends
    • The Skeptic's Dictionary (at Skepdic.com), by Robert T. Carroll
    • Snopes.com ("Urban Legends Reference Pages"), by David and Barbara Mikkelson
    • Urban Myths! has relocated or disappeared.

   

• Popular Culture
  • Dead People Server
  • Ad*Access ("images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955" at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Highly recommended ).
  • AdCritic.com ("All Ads, All The Time"): an archive of TV commercials.
  • AdFlip.com (cookie-spewing site, offering database of print ads from the 1940s to the present)
  • The History of Costume by Braun & Schneider (text and illustrations from book published c.1861-80; an invaluable resource, highly recommended)
  • Tom Dalzell's Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang (Merriam-Webster)
  • Richard Polt's The Classic Typewriter Page
  • American Highway Project ("Photographic Documentation of America's Vanishing Roadside Culture")
  • By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 (Library of Congress's American Memory site)
  • Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House (at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village)
  • Atomic Magazine ("The Essential Guide to Retro Culture")
  • Conelrad: All Things Atomic
  • PopCultures.com
  • RETRO (magazine of "classic popular culture of the first three-fourths of the 20th century")
  • Jim Lowe's Vot Der Dumboozle?--Popular Culture Excavation Site
  • Ghost Sites, compiled by Steve Badlwin
  • The Wayback Machine (offers "a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form")
  • The Mentos FAQ
  • Air Sickness Bag Museum, curated by Steven J. Silberberg
  • Cartoons (links on the "Visual Arts: Links" page)
  • The Farnsworth Chronicles (read about the man who invented TV!) 
  • The Museum of Television & Radio
  • William P. Gottlieb's Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz (American Memory Web, Library of Congress)

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