U.S. HISTORY - THE SIXTIES

14 Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- A student-produced ThinkQuest site.

1968: The Whole World Was Watching
Includes audio files, transcripts, and edited stories from 30 interviews conducted by high school students around recollections of the events of 1968

Civil Rights Movement Timeline
    Useful annotated timeline from CNN.  Use as beginning for research; is not all-inclusive; for example, does not mention the initial Freedom Rides of the 40s.

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
    AudioFiles from the History Outloud site, Northwestern University.

Free Speech Movement: Student Protest, U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65
    Searchable texts, oral histories, chronology of the most important white protest of the 1960s.

The Kennedy Assassination
    Site produced by John McAdams.  See his "Best of Kennedy Assassination Web Sites" for other views and for readily obtainable official documents.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    Incomparable primary sources, documents, photographs and audiotapes from the National Security Agency's files.

Six-Day War
    Includes hypertext links to background information on the countries that were involved from the online Encyclopedia of the Orient.

The Sixties Project
    Includes full-text the Vietnam Generation Journal, personal narratives from the '60s, primary documents including the manifestos of many radical groups, and more.

The Ultrasensitive Bay of Pigs
    A May 3, 2000 release of CIA documents long withheld from the world

Wars for Viet Nam, 1945 to 1975
    Historian Robert Brigham's overview of the Viet Nam War with links to numerous official documents, including several Hanoi documents unavailable elsewhere.