Unit 9 Resources


 

1960s General

Civil Rights

 
The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960–1968 - Study Guide
Study Guide Norton Textbook
The Great Debate & Beyond : The History of Televised Presidential Debates
echoes.com : Remember A Day : Home
Greg Knight's Patio Culture! Suburban Living in the 1960's!
Selective Service System: History and Records
American Rhetoric: Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet (3 April 1964)
Sixties Project: Poetry Archive
CNN - Cold War
Conversation with Robert McNamara
Berlin Wall Online
Chronicle of the Berlin Wall history includes an archive of photographs and texts
Berlin Wall
The history of the Berlin Wall, from its creation to its destruction :An exhibition comprising around a hundred photographs
Vietnam War Documents
Documents Collection from Vassar College
Buttons of the Sixties
From the Sixties Project from the University of Virginia
Print Advertisements from the 60s
Advertisements from Adflip
Sixties Project Home Page
Primary Resources from the University of Virginia
 

 

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
A fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi."
Struggle for Civil Rights
          Spartacus
The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Introduction
PBS - From Swastika to Jim Crow
Civil Rights Special Collection
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
NPR : Does Textbook Downplay U.S. Black History?
Deconstructing the Brown Myth - Rethinking Schools - 
           Rethinking Schools Online
Black-White Achievement Gap Persists in All Grades and Reappears Quickly
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Pictures of Civil Rights Movements
Dr. Carson Unfinished Dialogue - King and Malcolm X
A Brief History of Music and Race in 20th-Century America
A Change Is Gonna Come - U Virginia Book
PJM News - Two legends are worth a listen
Truman and the Desegregation of the Armed Forces: A Chronology
“The Negro Voter: Can He Elect a President?” - Article
Journalist Theodore H. White points out in Collier’s Magazine that African-American migration to Northern cities from the South made the black voter an important player in national politics by the mid-1950s
“What I Tell My Child About Color” - Article
Black and White Fathers in Atlanta Try to Explain Race Relations to Their Sons
“No Heat, No Water and a Large Sign Reading ’Colored’”
Inequality in “Separate but Equal” Railroad Accommodations
Brown v. Board - NY Times announces Supreme Court Decision
NY Times article May 18, 1954
National Civil Rights Museum
“The Only Good Pig Is a Dead Pig”: A Black Panther Paper Editor Explains a Political Cartoon
The Modern Civil Rights Movement: Lecture
from Henry Sage, Associate Professor, History Northern Virginia Community College
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)

 

Kennedy

Johnson

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library
The Kennedy Assassination 
A skeptical look at the welter of nonsense, misinformation, and disinformation surrounding the murder of JFK. Debunks various myths.
Biography of John F. Kennedy
         White House
John F. Kennedy: Biography
Spartacus
John Kennedy and the Cold War
The Decision to Go to the Moon: President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961 Speech before Congress
Character Above All: John F. Kennedy Essay
The JFK Assassination
The JFK Page
WhiteHouseTapes.org: Kennedy Tapes
Audio from White House Meetings from University of Virginia
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - POTUS
Internet Public Library: POTUS
JFK Photo History
Photos from The History Place
The History Place - JFK The President
Documents Relating to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
From Mount Holyoke
JFK Assassination Reports and Records
Documents from History Matters
The Kennedys
From American Experience - PBS
Presidential Election 1960: Kennedy vs. Nixon
Commercials from the American Museum of the Moving Image
John F. Kennedy
from American President
LBJ Library and Museum 
White House Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson
American President - Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
American Experience - PBS
President Lyndon B. Johnson FBI Files -
CIA Files - Telephone Conversation Recordings
LBJ's Reconstructed Birthplace at Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park
Flawed Giant
Barry Goldwater-- PBS
WhiteHouseTapes.org: About the Johnson (LBJ) Tapes
Audio from White House Meetings from University of Virginia
The President Calling
LBJ Audio From American RadioWorks
Lady Bird: The Biography of First Lady Lady Bird Johnson
Executive orders signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson
from the National Archives
Executive orders signed by President John F. Kennedy
from the National Archives
Presidential Election 1964: Johnson vs. Goldwater
Commercials from the American Museum of the Moving Image

 

Nixon

Documents

White House: Richard M. Nixon
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace-
American President - Richard Nixon
Nixon Presidential Materials - Nixon Home Page
Richard Nixon's resignation Announcement
Richard M. Nixon - Spartacus
Character Above All: Richard M. Nixon Essay
The Nixon-Presley Meeting
American Rhetoric: Richard M. Nixon - The Great Silent Majority
Richard Nixon Interview with Don Swaim
Nixon White House Tapes
Richard M. Nixon Photographs
Second Inaugural Address of Nixon The Avalon Project
CNN Cold War - Profile: Richard Milhous Nixon
The American Experience | Nixon's China Game
Nixon in China Photographs
Nixon's Trip to China
National Security Archive
Nixon in China Show Page Nixon Opera
Nixon's "Silent Majority" Speech
Nixon - The President Calling
Audio from American RadioWorks
Executive Orders signed by Richard Nixon
From the National Archives
Presidential Election 1972: Nixon vs. McGovern
Commericals from the American Museum of the Moving Image
Presidential Election of 1972 statistics
Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
President Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter Exchange, 1967
President Lyndon B. Johnson: The War on Poverty, March 1964
Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Viet-Nam, July 20, 1954
I have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr; August 28, 1963
Civil Rights Act; July 2, 1964
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Equal Pay Act of 1963; June 10, 1963
The Tonkin Gulf Incident; 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965; August 6, 1965
J F Kennedy: Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961
President Kennedy: On the Alliance for Progress, 1961
OAC Texts: Free Speech Movement Archives
Free Speech Movement Chronology
The Berkeley Free Speech Movement
President Johnson's Address to the Nation Upon Announcing His Decision To Halt the Bombing of North Vietnam, October 31, 1968
President Johnson's Address to the Nation Announcing His Decision Not To Seek Reelection, March 31, 1968
John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
The Great Society by President Lyndon Baines Johnson May 22, 1964
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps. (1961)
Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)

 

Space and Arms Race

Vietnam

Nuclear Files - Documents
From nuclear proliferation to nuclear testing, from Hiroshima to North Korea, Nuclear Files offers the A to Z on nuclear issues from From nuclear proliferation to nuclear testing, from Hiroshima to North Korea, Nuclear Files offers the A to Z on nuclear issues.
 
Space Race Exhibition - National Air and Space Museum
The Decision to Go to the Moon: President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961 Speech before Congress
NASA Apollo Mission Apollo-11
The Apollo Program
NASA - Welcome to NASA Headquarters
The Project Apollo Image Gallery
The Apollo Program
Apollo 11 - 17 Mission First man on the Moon - Fullscreen QTVR photo from panoramas.dk
Incredible 360 degree panoramas from the Apollo missions. From on the moon.
Stock Video of Archival NASA Apollo mission Neil Armstrong on moon - Search Motion Footage Clips - 023-0038 023-0038.gif
Apollo 11
from The History Place
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.
SPACE.com -- NASA's New Moon Plans: 'Apollo on Steroids'
NASA - Apollo Moon Landing -- 35th Anniversary
Dien Bien Phu - 1953-54 : the website of the Battle
Commerative Web Site
LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Audio and Transcript from The National Security Archive
TeT Offensive - Turning Point in the Vietnam War 1968
Article and Links from private "The American War Library"
The Taylor Mission to Vietnam - Article
Article from Historynet.com
Quotes From the Vietnam War
Vietnam Online - PBS
from PBS Series American Experience
Another Vietnam - Photographs
Vietnam War photographs by North Vietnamese photographers premiered at the International Center of Photography
Clickable Map of Vietnam
U.S. Troop Levels in Vietnam, 1960-1972 - chart
I Want Out - Poster
Bob Muller, A Veteran Speaks--Against the War
Important Names--Vietnam War
from Henry Sage, Associate Professor, History Northern Virginia Community College
LBJ on Vietnam - Why Americans Fight in Vietnam, 1965
President Eisenhower: Domino Theory
from Henry Sage, Associate Professor, History Northern Virginia Community College
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
Vietnam War Master Resource Guide
Vietnam Veterans Home Page
An Introduction to Vietnam
P.O.V. - Regret to Inform 
           PBS

 

Counter Culture

1968

Psychedelic '60s: Home Page
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The History of Psychedelia - BBC
Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1963-64
The Summer Of Love ~Sixties Music
Consciousness Revolution
BRIA(16:3) Free Speech Movement, Berkeley, Mahatma Gandhi, British Empire, anti-abortion rescue movement, protest, civil disobedience
Human Be-In 1967 A Tribute-Part 1
1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert
FSM-A the Free Speech Movement Archives 
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive home
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
The Free Speech Movement: Media Resources, University of California Berkeley
FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT TURNS 40 / UC's change of heart 
Psychedelic 60s: Table of Contents
University of Virginia
The Antiwar Movement of the 1960s
Links, Articles, Discussion Forum from The Radical Times
Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention: An Introduction
The 1968 Democratic Convention
AllPolitics - Democratic National Convention
CPL Chicago: 1968, August: Disturbances at the Democratic National Convention
1968: a timeline of events
1968 Revisited NYU
NewsHour Online: Retrospective on the 1968 Democratic Convention
Rare 1968 TV Highlights
Vietnam 1968
George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Presidential Election 1968: Nixon vs. Humphrey vs. Wallace
Commercials from the American Museum of the Moving Image