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Links about the 1950's
50's
World Wide Web resources
Developed for a college course, this site has links to
General resources, literary and artistic sites, music sites, movies, TV,
and radio sites, science and technology sites and consumer culture of the
1950s.
The Fifties:
Oldies Music, Classic TV, Burma Shave, American Bandstand and more.
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Literature
and Culture of the American Fifties
This page, put together by Al Filreis at the Uniiversity
of Pennsylvania, is packed with 50's link, especially those related to
writers of the era. Resources are listed alphabetically and there is a
search engine, but it's also useful to simply scroll through the topics.
American
Cultural History - 1950 - 59
An excellent web guide to many aspects of the Fifties,
including: Art & Architecture; Books & Literature; Fashion &
Fads; Events & Technology; Music; Television; and Theater, Film, &
Radio
American
History 1950-59
from Guillermin Library at Liberty University. Links
on Korean War, McCarthyism, Eisenhauer and Science links.
Links about the 1960's
American
Cultural History - 1960 - 69
An excellent web guide to many aspects of the Sixties,
including: Art & Architecture; Books & Literature; Fashion &
Fads; Events & Technology; Music; Television; and Theater, Film, &
Radio
American
History 1960-69
from Guillermin Library at Liberty University. General
Indexes, President Kennedy, Martin Luther King, President Johnson, Apollo
Program, Sports, Vietnam War, Theater/Movies, Literature
Sixties
Project Website
Personal narratives from Sixties Survivors.
Links about the 1970's
American
Cultural History - 1970 - 79
An excellent web guide to many aspects of the Seventies,
including: Art & Architecture; Books & Literature; Fashion &
Fads; Events & Technology; Music; Television; and Theater, Film, &
Radio
American
History 1970-79
from Guillermin Library at Liberty University. General
Indexes, President Nixon, President Carter, Culture and Society,
Kent State, Gloria Steinem, Disco, Charles Manson.
The Crucible
To what extent is The Crucible historically accurate?
The
Salem Witchcraft Trials
Doug Linder, a professor of law at the University of
Missouri - Kansas City, has put together an award-winning and very user-friendly
site which contains an historical chronology, an interactive "Account of
Events in Salem," trial transcripts and other primary documents about the
trials.
National
Geographic: Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
An interactive trip through the hysteria that caused
the witch hunt in Salem, offered from the perspective of one of the accused.
Salem Massachusetts
Witch Trials
The town of Salem has posted this site which contains
a brief historical introduction to the events of 1692-93 in Salem. This
site
also contains various links to more specific aspects
of Salem and the trials.
How are the political events of the 1950âs reflected
in The Crucible?
McCarthy
Documents
This page lists links to selected primary and secondary
documents about McCarthyism for use in your essay on how political events
of the 1950s influenced the writing of The Crucible.
Howard
Zinn, A People's History of the United States - Chapter 16,
"A People's War?"
Another useful site for understanding anti-communism
after World War II in order to relate it to The Crucible.
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