Allen Ginsberg
NPR : Revisiting Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' at 50
The Project Apollo Image Gallery
The World-Wide Web's most extensive collection of high-quality Apollo images, featuring images scanned for Eric Jones' Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.
NASA - Welcome to NASA Headquarters
Home base for NASA information
JSC Digital Image Collection
This collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission. This site includes both a full text search and a simple browse tool to help you find the photos you're looking for.
CPL Chicago: 1968, August: Disturbances at the Democratic National Convention
George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
Companion site for American Experience documentary with articles, timeline and links to resources
Rock Music Festivals
An Analysis Of Over Twenty Years Of American Rock Music Festivals
Sixties Project: Primary Document Archive
Links to primary source archives from the 1960s
NASA - Apollo Moon Landing -- 35th Anniversary
Images and short article geared toward 5-8 grade from NASA
The History Place - Apollo 11
Narrative article with images from the Historyplace
Immigration Form for Apollo 11 astronauts
The immigration form completed by the crew of Apollo 11 when they returned to earth
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The Photographs
These are the photographs through which the United States learned of Soviet Missiles in Cuba
WSLS-TV (Roanoke, VA) News Film Collection, 1951 to 1971 - University of Virginia Library
This collection of anchor scripts and film footage from a local Virginia television station can be mined for footage showing local impact of national events and trends. Yet in-between Vietnam and Civil Rights, there are many examples of what daily life was like for Americans in Virginia throughout this time period.
Click through the folders organized by year on the left and find clips by reading the brief synopsis of stories. There are many stories on beauty pageants, soap-box derbies, and car accidents. See how the fashion, technology and local interest define this time period.
Compare on contrast media stars (Cisco Kid star visits Roanoke in May 1954) or the excitement over the technology at a new bowling alley (April 1971). Better yet, listen to how political leaders use language differently (Gas tax increase in March, 1970)
Free Speech Movement Turns 40
Article from San Fransisco Chronicle
A Biography of America: The Sixties
Companion site to documentary, be sure to check out maps, transcripts and "Webography" links to primary documents from Annenberg Media. Note focus on Women's Movement
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
Articles, resources and other materials
Richard Nixon - American President
Summary information and links to more resources from the Miller Center of Public Affairs from the University of Virginia
Watergate
Great resource site of articles and links to many aspects of the Watergate affair.
Revisiting Watergate
Review of Watergate affair by Washington Post 35 years later
The Watergate Decade: Illusion and Delusion
Short concise summary of watergate affair
Speech By Barbara Jordan on Impeachment July 25, 1974
This is the speech given by Representative Barbara Jordan (Democrat-Texas) reminding her colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee of the Constitutional basis for impeachment. ("A President Is Impeachable If He Attempts To Subvert The Constitution")
Nixon Tapes: Overview » White House Tapes
Overview and description of Nixon tapes from the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Nixon Presidential Library & Museum
Extensive collection of resources and exhibits
Truth Tobacco Industry Documents
Treasure trove of primary source documents related to smoking and the tobacco industry utterly unknown to the taught narrative canon of American history, but available to teachers nonetheless. Throw out that Jungle reading you've been using for years and give vaping students an experience in how the corporate sausage is really made
Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips and Photo Images from CriticalPast
This is a commercial site and the materials are watermarked. Still, as the "raw data" of still and video images it can provide insight into certain eras.
Vintage stock footage and millions of stock photo images comprising one of the world's largest royalty-free archival footage collections. All broadcast quality and available for immediate download in HD and SD formats, including professional screeners.
Buttons of the Sixties
Links to images of about 30 buttons from the 1960s
Vietnam War Documents
Collection of documents from Vassar College
1968: a timeline of events
1968: Timeline This timeline focuses on some major events of 1968. When necessary or indicated, contextual background material, or certain subsequent events will be referenced in the text. This brief document cannot hope to touch on all or even most of the important happenings in what was perhaps an uniquely "eventful" year, but focuses especially on events referred to in the text of the interviews.
Psychedelic '60s: Home Page
Literary tradition and social change from Special Collections Department at University of Virginia