The Nifty Fifties


Dwight D. Eisenhower

 H102 Lecture 22: From New Deal to Fair Deal: New Deal or Same Shuffle?
 American History - 1950-1959
The Cold War
Excellent site on the history of the cold war with related links
H102 Lecture 25: Eisenhower and Kennedy
 Welcome to the George C. Marshall Foundation On-Line
"The American 1950s"
Many readings about literature and culture in the 1950's indexed alphabetically
Music of the Early Fifties
Annie's Place ~ Tunes of the 50's and 60's PAGE 1
 The Fifties, Rewind the Fifties,The 50's (new)
 FAMSF-de Young-Exhibitions-Beat Culture-Fine Arts Magazine
An good essay about Beatniks and the 1950's
The Beat Generation Archives
Social and Culturl History of the United States in the 1950s.
Sputnik
 Space Race Exhibition
 The American Experience/Spy in the Sky/The Spies
The U-2 Incident and the trial of Powers
The Fight For America: Senator Joseph McCarthy
THE IMPACT OF McCARTHYISM
Classic TV - Home Page
 TV Commercials
 Google Search: 1950 television history
 U.S. television history in the 1950's
Eisenhower Center
Cold War Hot Links: Web Sorces Relating to the Cold War
The (unofficial) Elvis Home Page
 Elvis Presley: The Early Years
rockhall.com
 Rock 'n' Roll in the American Fifties
 James Dean Online
 The Marilyn Pages-Marilyn Monroe biography and images
Alan Freed - Welcome
 Pacific Bell - Little Rock Nine WebQuest
Polio
Fifties (1950's) Web

The Fifties Website
Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
New York Times on AOL: Sputnik
Nixon, Kissinger and Zhou Enlai (NSA)
Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1)
Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (2)

Civil Rights in the 50's
H102 Lecture 26: Civil Rights in an Uncivil Society

The Official Site of the Negro Baseball Leagues
 Shadowball: Recalling the Negro Leagues
Jackie Robinson History
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott - Women's - 01/19/98
THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT PAGE
Civil Rights Exhibition
 Thurgood Marshall
MLK Page
 Seattle Times: Photo Tour of the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University

 

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