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Twentieth Century Scrapbook
Brown v. Board of Education
Cell Phones
Chernobyl
Civil Rights
Development of Atomic Bomb
Fall of Berlin Wall
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal Programs
Great Depression
Hoover Dam
Human Genome Project
Impeachment of President Clinton
Influence of TV
Interstate Highway Project
Iran Hostage Crisis
Kent State Massacre
Korean War
Martin Luther King
McCarthyism
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Nuclear Energy
Oil Embargo/OPEC
Oklahoma City Bombing
Pearl Harbor
Polio Vaccine
Sandra Day O'Connor
Somalia
Space Race/Moon Walk
Sputnik
Three Mile Island
Vietnam War
Watergate
Women in World War II
Women's Lib Movement
Resources in the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 344.73 B | Brown v. Board of Education: a Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, c1998. | |
| 344.73 K | Kluger, Richard | Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York : Vintage Books, 1977, c1975. |
Internet Sites:
Brown v. Board of Education National Park Service Site - Includes some meaningful illustrations and a good short explanation of the significance of the case
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - from factmonster.com; brief explanation; good for Middle School students
Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education - Lesson Plan + scans of original documents of the fateful decision from the National Archives of the U.S.
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| Ref 600 E | Engelbert, Phillis | Technology in Action: Science Applied to Everyday Life. Detroit: UX : c1999. volume 1, page 76. |
Internet Sites:
Cell Phones and Cancer - FDA report
History of Cellular/Mobile Phones - from About.com
How Cell Phones Work - Illustrated with diagrams
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| VC 363.179 C | Chernobyl the taste of Wormwood. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, [1987?] |
Internet Sites:
Chernobyl - from factmonster.com; brief summary of the accident; good for Middle School students
Chernobyl, a Nuclear Disaster - a ThinkQuest project site prepared by students
Chernobyl Accident - Text includes some enlargeable diagrams of the reactor
Chernobyl Ten Years On - A look at the disaster and its long term effects
Resources in the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 323.092 Y | Young, Andrew | An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c1996. |
| 323.1 H | Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York : Bantam Books, c1990. | |
| 323.1 W | Wexler, Sanford | The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, c1993. |
| 323.11 P | Powledge, Fred | Free at last? The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It. Boston : Little, Brown, c1991. |
| 323.119 B | Brooks, Thomas R | Walls Come Tumbling Down: A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1940-1970,. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1974] |
Internet Sites:
Civil Rights: a Legal Overview - a hard to read site from the Legal Information Institute; gives very precise definitions and examples of what the legal definitions of civil rights are
CNN -The Civil Rights Movement - timeline and links from CNN
KODAK: Powerful Days in Black and White - photographs by Charles Moore about the civil rights struggle
Resources in the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 623.45 R | Rhodes, Richard | The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1986. |
| 940.54 T | Takaki, Ronald T | Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., [1996?], c1995. |
Internet Sites:
Atomic Archive - An Excellent site to see the development; use the table of contents at the left to organize your search for information
Atomic Bomb - from factmonster.com; brief history with internal links; good for Middle School students
National Atomic Museum Virtual Tour - companion website to the actual museum owned by the Department of Energy
Nuclear Age Timeline- from the Department of Energy; highlights developments in each decade at the top of the page, then provides more details further down on the page
Fall of Berlin Wall
Resources in the Library(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 914.31 B | The Berlin Wall: Division of a City/Thomas Flemming; documents, Berlin Wall archives: Hagen Koch. Berlin: Be.bra, 2000. |
Internet Sites:
The Berlin Wall (1961 - 1990) from factmonster.com; good for Middle School students
The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 - page down to the photographs and articles from German newspapers of the time for interesting contemporary views; the text of the main site is not particularly good.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal Programs
Resources in the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 327 N | Nevins, Allan | The New Deal and World Affairs; A Chronicle of International Affairs, 1933-1945. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1950. |
| 338.973 H | Hope Restored: How the New Deal Worked in Town and Country. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c1999. | |
| 973.9 B | Brogan, D. W. | The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt; A Chronicle of the New Deal and Global War. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1950. |
| 973.91 L | Leuchtenburg, William Edward | Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York, Harper & Row [1963] |
| 973.917 M | The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1983. |
Internet Sites:
from factmonster.com:
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Work Projects Administration (WPA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Social Security Administration (SSA) social security: In the United States; complete history, not just during Roosevelt's administration
Public Works Administration (PWA)
other sites:
FDIC: Learning Bank from the FDIC; good for Middle School students
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 from the Library of Congress
Social Security Online History Page from the SSA; extensive information
SSA - Teens also from the SSA; geared more toward Middle School age, but focuses more on the features of the program, rather than the history of the program.
Resources in the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 338.5 S | Shachtman, Tom | The Day America Crashed. New York: Putnam, c1979 |
| 973.91 M | McElvaine, Robert S. | The Great Depression : America, 1929-1941. [ New York, N.Y.]: Times Books, c1984 |
| 973.917 W | Watkins, T. H | The Great Depression : America in the 1930s. Boston : Little, Brown, c1993. |
| REF 973 A | The Annals of America. Chicago, Encylopaedia Britannica, inc. [c1968-1987] 1929-1939: The great depression.--v. 16. | |
| Ref 973.9 T | Twentieth-century America: A Primary Source Collection from the Associated Press. Danbury, Conn. : Grolier Educational Corp., 1995-. v.2. The Great Depression (1929-1939). |
Internet Sites:
see History - U.S. - The Depression (1930-1939)on our library's website under A-Z Websites.
Great Depression from factmonster.com; good for Middle School students
FDIC: Learning Bank - 1930's only focuses on the banks during this time period, but a good source for Middle School Students
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 627.82 V | Vilander, Barbara | Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1999. |
| 720 M | Macaulay, David | Building Big. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. |
Internet Sites:
BUILDING BIG: Databank: Hoover Dam - statistics, history, links, pictures and diagrams; good for Middle School students
Hoover Dam National Historic Landmark
Hoover Dam - Website accompanying the video Hoover Dam in the American Experience series
The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful - from the UVa American Studies program; a wonderful site filled with actual photos of the creation of the dam and much more
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 599.93 R | Ridley, Matt. | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. New York : HarperCollins, c1999. |
| 616.042 B | Bishop, Jerry E. | Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time--The Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1991. |
Internet Sites:
Human Genome Project - from factmonster.com; good for Middle School students
Human Genome Project Information - Official site of the Dept. of Energy; tons of data!
Introduction: The Human Genome Project - from AccessExcellence.
Impeachment of President Clinton
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 342.73 B | Berger, Raoul | Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1973. |
| 342.73 P | Posner, Richard A | An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. |
| 973.929 T | Toobin, Jeffrey. | A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President. New York : Random House, c1999. |
Internet Sites:
Impeachment from factmonster.com; definition and brief history of impeachment trials in the U.S.
Lewinsky Scandal from factmonster.com; good for Middle School students
The History Place - Presidential Impeachment Proceedings a bit difficult to read, but thorough coverage of information
Resources in the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 301.16 L | Liebert, Robert M. | The Early Window: Effects of Television on Children and Youth. New York, Pergamon Press [1973] |
| 301.24 M | Mankiewicz, Frank | Remote Control: Television and the Manipulation of American Life. New York: Times Books, c1978. |
| 302.2 C | Cheney, Glenn Alan. | Television in American Society. New York: F. Watts, 1983. |
| 791.45 T | Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2001. |
Internet Sites:
Television History - the First Seventy-Five Years - a good overview of the facts with lots of vintage illustrations, and a timeline
Violence and Television – from The Museum of Broadcast Communications
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 388.122 L | Lewis, Tom. | Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life. New York: Penguin Books, 1999 |
Internet Sites:
40 Years of the Interstate Highway System: an Analysis of the Best Investment a Nation Ever Made - A very long and thorough hypertexted book on the IHP. Use the 'Find on this page' option in 'Edit' function to get to details
Consequences of the Interstate Hisghway System for Transit [.pdf format] - Another full length book; read introduction for good information
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate System - Official information from the Dept.of Transportation
The Interstate Highway System and the Disfiguring of America - a negative view of the project
Interstate Highways - from About.com; contains a map of the whole U.S. system
Interstate History - from factmonster.com; good for Middle School students
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 327.73 S | Salinger, Pierre. | America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1981. |
| 955.054 W | Wells, Tim. | 444 Days: The Hostages Remember. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1985. |
Internet Sites:
Iran Hostage Crisis - Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2001
Iran Hostage Crisis - from factmonster.com; good for Middle School students
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| 378.771 D | Davies, Peter | The Truth about Kent State; A Challenge to the American Conscience. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux [1973] |
| 378.771 K | Kelner, Joseph. | The Kent State Coverup. New York: Harper & Row, c1980. |
Internet Sites:
May 4, 1970, by Alan Canfora - an eyewitness who was shot in the wrist
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Resources in the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 323.4 K | King, Martin Luther, Jr. | The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Newmarket Press, c1983 |
| 921 King | Frady, Marshall | Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Group, 2002. |
| 921 King | Harrison, Deloris | We Shall Live in Peace: The Teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Hawthorn Books [1968] |
| 921 King | Oates, Stephen B | Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper & Row, c1982. |
| 973.921 B | Branch, Taylor. | Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1998 |
Internet Sites:
Martin Luther King, Jr. - From Encarta.com
Martin Luther KIng - LIFE EXCLUSIVE! The Day MLK Died
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Martin Luther King, Jr., Timeline - not detailed, but good, brief, synopsis of his life; from factmonster.com; good for Middle School students
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 921 McCarthy | Matusow, Allen J., comp. | Joseph R. McCarthy. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1970] |
| 921 McCarthy | Rovere, Richard Halworth | Senator Joe McCarthy. New York, Harcourt, Brace [1959] |
| 973.9 S | Schrecker, Ellen. | Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, c1998. |
| 973.918 S | Steele, Robert V. P. | When Even Angels Wept: The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair- A Story without a Hero. New York: Morrow, 1973. |
| 973.921 A | Adams, John Gibbons | Without Precedent: The Story of the Death of McCarthyism. New York: W.W. Norton, c1983 |
Internet Sites:
The Age of McCarthyism: a Brief History with Documents
McCarthyism - from the Spartacus Encyclopedia, a source for British students
Meaning of McCarthyism - from factmonster.com; good for Middle School students
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 629.45 C | Chaikin, Andrew | A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1994. |
| 629.45 S | Shepard, Alan B. | Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. Atlanta : Turner Pub.; Kansas City, Mo.: Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, c1994. |
| 629.45 S | Stott, Carole | Moon Landing: The Race for the Moon. New York, N.Y.: DK Pub., 1999. |
| Ref 629.45 C | Cassutt, Michael | Who's Who in Space. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, c1999. |
| VC 629.41 M | Moon Shot: The Inside Story of the Apollo Project. Atlanta: Turner Home Entertainment, c1994. |
Internet Sites:
NASA History - Home Page
NASA KIDS - a NASA site dedicated to kids - Kids of all ages! - good for Middle School students
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search on the library's catalog)
| 333.7 P | Pringle, Laurence P. | Nuclear Power: From Physics to Politics. New York : Macmillan, c1979. |
| 333.79 N | Nuclear Power, Both Sides: The Best Arguments For and Against the Most Controversial Technology. New York : Norton, c1982. | |
| 614.8 N | Nader, Ralph. | The Menace of Atomic Energy. New York: Norton, c1977. |
| REF 355.8 B | Burns, Grant | The Atomic Papers: A Citizen's Guide to Selected Books and Articles on the Bomb, the Arms Race, Nuclear Power, the Peace Movement, and Related Issues. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press, 1984. |
Internet Sites:
N.E.T Nuclear Energy Tomorrow - a ThinkQuest presentation by students
NRC Students' Corner - government site from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; excellent diagrams and relatively easy to understand; good for Middle School students
Nuclear Energy - another ThinkQuest presentation produced by students
Nuclear Energy - Fission and Fusion - a site from Canada's regulatory energy agency for children
Resources in the Library(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| VC 973.923 M pt.5 | Picking up the pieces. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, c1991. short segment on OPEC |
Internet Sites:
25th Anniversary of the 1973 Oil Embargo
Resources in the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 303.625 S | Sherrow, Victoria | The Oklahoma City bombing: terror in the heartland. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, c1998. |
Internet Sites:
Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
Resources in the Library (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 940.52 P | Perry, Hamilton Darby. | The Panay incident: prelude to Pearl Harbor. [ New York] Macmillan, [1969]. |
| 940.53 F | Feis, Herbert. | The road to Pearl Harbor: the coming of the war between the United States and Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. |
| 940.53 O | Only what we could carry: the Japanese American internment experience. Berkeley, Calif: San Francisco, Calif: Heyday Books; California Historical Society, c2000 Citizen | |
| 940.54 L | Lord, Walter. |
Day of infamy. [1st ed.] New York: Holt, [1957]. |
| 940.54 P | Prange, Gordon William | At dawn we slept: the untold story of Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1981 |
Internet Sites:
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December, 1941
Eyewitness to History, Pearl Harbor
Remembering Pearl Harbor—National Geographic
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 614.5 O | Oshinsky, David M. | Polio: an American story. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press |
| 921 Salk | Kluger, Jeffrey. | Splendid solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2004. |
Internet Sites:
Salk produces polio vaccine, 1952
Polio Vaccine—What you need to know. From the Centers for Disease Control
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 920.72 F | Felder, Deborah G | The 100 most influential women of all time: a ranking past and present. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group, c1996. |
| 921 O'Connor | O'Connor, Sandra Day | Lazy B: growing up on a cattle ranch in the American southwest. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 2002. |
| VC 921 O'Connor | Sandra Day O'Connor. Bala Cynwyd, PA: Schlessinger Video Productions, c1995 |
Internet Sites:
US Supreme Court—Justice O’Connor
On the issues: Sandra Day O’Connor
Resources in the Library:(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 327.73 H | Henriksen, Thomas H. | Clinton's foreign policy in Somalia, Bosnia , Haiti, and North Korea. Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1996. |
| 967.7305 B | Bowden, Mark. | Black Hawk down: a story of modern war. 1st ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1999. |
Internet Sites:
MISSION IN SOMALIA; High Cost for Clinton on Somalia Vote
Frontline: Ambush in Mogadishu: Chronology
African Studies Center | Somalia Page
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| 629.43 K | Kluger, Jeffrey. | Journey beyond Selene: remarkable expeditions past our moon and to the ends of the solar system. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1999. |
| 629.45 S | Stott, Carole. | Moon landing: the race for the moon. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y: DK Pub., 1999. |
| 629.45 S | Shepard, Alan B | Moon shot: the inside story of America's race to the moon. 1st ed. Atlanta: Kansas City, Mo: Turner Pub; Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, c1994. |
Internet sites:
Space Race—from the Smithsonian
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| 629.46 D | Dickson, Paul. | Sputnik: the shock of the century. New York: Walker & Co. 2001. |
Sputnik—from NASA. It has the recording of the noises it made. Very cool.
Library Resources: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 363.1 F | Ford, Daniel F. | Three Mile Island: thirty minutes to meltdown. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Penguin Books, 1982. |
| 363.3 M | Martin, Daniel. | Three Mile Island: prologue or epilogue? Cambridge , Mass: Ballinger Pub. Co., c1980. |
| 616.9 S | Sternglass, Ernest J. | Secret fallout: low-level radiation from Hiroshima to Three Mile Island. 1st McGraw-Hill paperback ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. |
Internet:
Three Mile Island 1979 Emergency
Three Mile Island Fact Sheet—from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In the Library: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 070.4 R | Reporting Vietnam. New York: Library of America: Distributed to the trade in the USA by Penguin Putnam, c1998 | |
| 320.9 F | FitzGerald, Frances. | Fire in the lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. [1st ed.] Boston, Little, Brown, [1972]. |
| 327.73 F | Fifield, Russell Hunt | Americans in Southeast Asia: the roots of commitment. New York: Crowell, [1973] |
| 327.730597 S | Schlesinger, Arthur | The bitter heritage: Vietnam and American democracy, 1941-1966. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967 [c1966]. |
Internet:
American Experience. War in Vietnam
Library Resources(This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 364.1 B | Bernstein, Carl. | All the President's men. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1974]. |
| 364.1 C | Congressional Quarterly, Inc. Watergate: chronology of a crisis. Washington: [1973]. | |
| 364.1 E | Emery, Fred. | Watergate: the corruption of American politics and the fall of Richard Nixon. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Times Books, c1994. |
| 973.924 A | Abuse of power: the new Nixon tapes. New York Free Press. |
Internet:
The Scandal That Destroyed President Richard Nixon
Revisiting Watergate—Deep Throat, Woodward, Bernstein
Watergate—from the Museum of Broadcast Communications
Library Resources: (This list is not complete. For more titles, search the library's catalog)
| 070.4 C | Colman, Penny | Where the action was: women war correspondents in World War II. 1st ed. New York: Crown Publishers, 2002. |
| 940.53 S | Sim, Kevin | Women at war: five heroines who defied the Nazis and survived. 1st ed. New York: Morrow, 1982. |
| 940.5318 D | Different voices: women and the Holocaust. 1st ed. New York Paragon House, 1993. |
Internet sources:
Internet Sources:
Women in World War II: The Valour and the Horror
The Wartime Memories Project—Women in World War II
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| 301.412 F | Freeman, Jo. | The politics of women's liberation: a case study of an emerging social movement and its relation to the policy process. New York: McKay, [1975]. |
| 305.4 Y v.9 | May, Elaine Tyler. | Pushing the limits: American women, 1940-1961. New York: Oxford University Press, c1994 |
Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement
People and Events; The Pill and the Women’s Liberation Movement. PBS
