WEBSITES FOR 1960s AMERICA (updated September, 2001)

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General


National Archives Constitutional Community Page (teaching info for US history but has good docs and brief biblios)
http://www.archives.gov/education/constitution-community.html

American Memory Project (Library of Congress online documents, lotsa oral histories and great stuff on just about every subject
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

Bibliographical site at Kingwood College Library: American Cultural History, 1960-1969
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade60.html
NOT for use as a source for a research paper but a good place to go to get ideas for topics and sources.

1960s
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html
The Psychedelic 60s. An exhibit at the University of Virginia Library
 
 

Thanks to Steven Mintz for many of the following:

· The Cold War

General
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
CNN's documentary series Web site contains archival footage; biographies, maps, recently declassified documents, and classroom guides.

· Library of Congress’s Soviet Archives Exhibit
http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html#tour
Documents and translations from the Soviet Archives reveals the inner workings of the Soviet system and Soviet-U.S. relations during the Cold War.

· The National Security Archives at George Washington University
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
The archives publishes declassified foreign policy documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, including material on Cuba, Guatemala, Iran, and the Soviet Union.

· Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/cuba_mis_cri.html
An online exhibit focusing on the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

· The Space Race
http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal114/SpaceRace/sec100/sec110.htm
Photographs, quotations, and other materials that place the space race in the context of the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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CIVIL RIGHTS
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Mexican Americans
· A Collection of Annotated Primary Source Materials on Mexican Americans During the Twentieth Century
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gl/mav3.htm

· Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/index.html
This site contains a civil rights time-line, commentary by King’s contemporaries, photographs, and an assessment of King’s legacy.

-Cesar Chavez
http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Ececipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhome.htm
Speeches and documents from the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez

-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.html
lots of information about SNCC ("snick") and people and events and issues.

-Sit-Ins
http://www.si.edu/i+d/sitins.arc.html
Nice article from Smithsonian Magazine on Greensboro, N.C. Sit-Ins

· Mississippi Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~mcrohb/transcripts.html
Transcripts of 15 oral histories relating to the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.

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1960s CULTURE AND PROTEST


. Counterculture
http://www.dnai.com/~hi_there/people's_park.html
Archives and current events from the People's Park in Berkeley, CA (thanks Max)

http://www.diggers.org/
Archives from the Diggers, a San Francisco based counterculture group

. Beats
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=BeatGen
Basic info about the beat generation

.Woodstock
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/3869/woodstock.htm
Woodstock 69. articles about history, pictures, interviews, and sound bites

· Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
A searchable collection of documents dealing with the women’s movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s focusing on such topics as women’s roles, work, organizations, music, and medical and reproductive rights.

· Free Speech Movement Archives
http://www.straw.com/fsm-a/index.html
This collection contains speeches, leaflets, interviews, memoirs, and audio clips examining the history and legacy of the Free Speech Movement.


1960s Politics
· John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~rwhealan/jfk/main.html
Speeches, sound files, official documents, photographs, records from the presidency of John F. Kennedy,supplemented with collections of information about the 1960 presidential debates, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, the space program, and President Kennedy’s assassation.

JFK link--1960 election
Good collection of JFK and Nixon campaign speeches from the 1960 campaign
http://www.jfklink.com/

· LBJ in the Oval Office
http://www.hpol.org/lbj/
A collection of Lyndon Johnson’s speeches and secretly recorded conversations.

-Presidential Elections
http://www.kennesaw.edu/pols/3380/pres/
Information on the 1960, 64, and 68 presidential elections with good bibliography

· The Sixties Project
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/
This site contains documents relating to the radical movementsof the 1960s plus several online exhibits dealing with such topics as public protest and sixties buttons.
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VIETNAM WAR
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· Vietnam Documents
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm
A collection of documents relating to U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the United States from 1941 to the fall of Saigon.

-Vietnam War Links
http://www.vietnamwar.net/
Starting point for information on Vietnam on the web.

· Vietnam Era Antiwar Song Lyrics
http://homepages.go.com/~giacalones/vietnam_lyrics.html

-Women in Vietnam
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/wviet/main.html
Written by students but still a useful source for finding other information on the subject
 

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