North Hunterdon High School Media Center

  The '50s 

Books

Books for your investigation have been placed on a cart.  General books on the fifties are usually found at  973.92.

Electronic Databases

    ABC Clio
           EBSCO History Reference Center - Make sure you bullet Full Text.
      Facts On File  - Username and password are North.
      Infrotrac Use any of the databases that will work for your topic.
      SIRS Use either subject or keyword search.

Subject Directories
    About.com
    Multnomah Homework Center

     
Evaluated Websites:

Authentic History Center
http://www.authentichistory.com/audio/1950s/atomic_music_01.html

Cold War Links
http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/timeline.htm

Fifties Boulevard
http://paperpast-archives.com/

Fifties Tunes
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/music.htm

Fifties Web
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/

McDonalds Web
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about.html

19th Century American Culture
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

People's Century 1900-1999
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
http://www.rockhall.com/

Time The Most Important People of the Century
http://www.time.com/time/time100/

Timeline
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/formac/amst191b/timeline.htm

20th Century History
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decs5.html