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20th Century

General Listing of Sites that span the Century:

The American Experience - From PBS comes the highly recognized "American Experience Online" with programs since 1995. Each featured program contains The Film and More, Special Features, leading to a variety of information on the topic, a Timeline that will take you to the People and Events, Maps, and a Teacher's Guide. Check this site periodically to see what is available for the different time periods.

Art History Resources on the Web - Organized chronologically under 12 broad topics.  Covers from prehistory to the 20th century.  Excellent listing of links for decade reports.

American Literature Resources; a Gateway Site

Celebrate the Century - from the U.S. Post Office - Excellent sites for the decades

Decades.com - Covers all of history, but will be helpful with 20th century links.

Election Section - History of Presidential Elections - From Multieducation.

Fashion Links for the Decades:

 - Costumers.org - the Costumer Manifesto- links dealing with the fashion industry.

 - History of Fashion 1900-1910 | 1910-1920 | 1920-1930 | 1930-1940 | 1940-1950 | 1950-1960 | 1960-1970 | 1970-1980

 - The Costume Gallery - has pictures of costume from 1804-1923; also some hair style sites

 - Fashion-Era - go to the site map for specific years.  Excellent explanations of the culture of fashion.

 - Fashion History - 20th Century Links

 - History of Costume Homepage - Links for the 1900's are listed on this page.  This is a classroom course where slides are provided to show the costumes of the period.  Very helpful.

 - Fashions of the 20's, 30's and 40's for Men and Women

 - Fashion and Dress -- Timeline of Modern Fashion - 1858-1920s | 1930-1968  |  1970-1990

Immigration - Ellis Island Home Page is an online magazine that celebrates classic popular culture of the first three-fourths of the 20th century. We feature articles on vintage personalities, politics, music, media & entertainment, fashion, design, decorating and a whole lot more.

Lunar Exploration Timeline

Lyrics World This index contains links to all of the lyrics available at Lyrics World including all the songs found in "Top 40 Hits of 1930-1999", "#1 Songs of 1930-1999", "Top Singles by Decade" and "Artist
Collections", plus many songs that aren't listed anywhere else in this site. You can browse through the
songs by title or by artist (group name or surname of artist).

Negro Leagues Legacy - A feature tribute to the old Negro baseball Leagues.

An Outline of American History: Decades of Change - Part of a Hypertext of American History Site.

Posters, American Style - from the Modern Museum of American Art.

Retro; Cool Stuff from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's Teacher Oz Site - Excellent, complete listing of links.

**Progressive Era - America's Story from America's Library - 1890 - 1913 - From the Library of Congress.

The People History - where people, memories and history join together.

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