• Nineteenth Century
• 1900s: The Edwardian Age
• 1910s: The World War I Era
• 1920s: The Jazz Age and Financial Collapse
• 1930s: The Great Depression and Recovery
• 1940s: World War II and Prosperity
• 1950s: Korea and The Rise of Middle Class America
• 1960s: Civil Rights and Unrest
• 1970s: Vietnam, Watergate, and the Aftermath
• 1980s: The Decade of Greed
• 1990s: The Technology Revolution
• Busse Library Resources

Nineteenth Century

• The Gentleman's Page - a practical guide to the 19th century American man
• Nineteenth Century Advertising History: HarpWeek.com

1900s: The Edwardian Age

• 1900's Bestsellers
• America 1900: American Experience: PBS
• America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915: American Memory Project : Library of Congress (LOC)
• American Cultural History: 1900-1909: Kingwood College Library
• Arts & Crafts Society
• Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916: American Memory Project: LOC
• Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events : 1900-1909
• Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904: American Memory Project: LOC
• Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor : Library of Congress
• Stage Musicals: 1900-1910: A History of the Musical
• TIME 100: 1900 VS. Now -- comparison of America between 1900 and 1998
• Touring Turn of the Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company: 1880-1920: American Memory Project: LOC
• A Year in Fashion: 1901: The Costume Gallery Research Library

1910s: The World War I Era

• American Cultural History: 1910-1919: Kingwood College Library
• American Landscape and Architectural Design: 1850-1920: American Memory Project: LOC
• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election: American Memory Project: LOC
• Chicago Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
• From One Life to Another -- immigration study
• The Great War Society
• Influenza 1918: American Experience: PBS
• Origins of American Animation: American Memory Project: LOC
• Small-town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection: American Memory Project: LOC
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Sufrage Association: American Memory Project : LOC
• Women's Fashions: 1910s: The Costume Gallery

1920s: The Jazz Age and Financial Collapse

• The 1920s Economy: A Statistical Portrait
• The 1920s Experience
• American Cultural History: 1920-1929: Kingwood College Library
• American Temperance and Prohibition: Ohio State Department of History
• Black Thursday, October 24, 1929: The New York Times Headlines
• The Great Depression: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
• The Greatest Films of the 1920s: Filmsite.org
• The Jazz Age Page
• Media History: 1920-1929
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929: American Memory Project: LOC
• A Short History of the Model T Automobile: Ford Motor Company: 100 Years
• Tennessee VS. John Scopes: The "Monkey Trial."
• Women's Fashions: 1920s: The Costume Gallery

1930s: The Great Depression and Recovery

• The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photos from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945: American Memory Project: LOC
• America in the 1930s: University of Virginia
• American Architecture: 1930-1939: Great Buildings.com
• American Cultural History: 1930-1939: Kingwood College Library
• The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
• The New Deal Network: A Guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s
• Radio Days: A Soundbite History: Old Time Radio (OTR)
• Riding the Rails: The American Experience: PBS -- follows teen vagrants during the Depression
• Surviving the Dust Bowl: The American Experience : PBS
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): Electricity for All
• Voices from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal Writer's Project
• Women's Fashions: 1930's: The Costume Gallery

1940s: World War II and Prosperity

• 1940s State Highway Markers
• America and the Holocaust: The American Experience: PBS
• American Cultural History: 1940-1949: Kingwood College Library
• Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941: Eye Witness
• Greatest Films of the 1940s: Filmsite.org
• The Manhattan Project: The National Atomic Museum
• Media History Timeline: 1940-1949
• Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
• WASP-WWII: Women Airforce Service Pilots
• World War II: The Homefront
• World War II Resources -- gateway to primary documents

1950s: Korea and the Rise of Middle Class America

• The 50's: Nuclear Age Timeline: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• The Cold War: Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
• The Cold War Museum
• The Fifties Website
• The Korean War Project
• Literary Kicks: The Beat Generation
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s: English 592: Fall, 1997: University of Pennsylvania -- gateway to resources
• Media History Timeline: 1950-1959
• Rave On: Rock and Roll in the Fifties: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
• Roadside Architecture: Impact of the Automobile
• Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age. By Roger D. Launius, NASA
• Then and Now: The Red Scare Revisited: The Cold War: CNN
• Women's Fashions: 1950s

1960s: Civil Rights and Unrest

• American Cultural History: 1960-1969: Kingwood College Library
• Apollo 11: NASA: The Moon Landing
• Battlefield: Vietnam: PBS
• The Boomer Initiative: American Association of Baby Boomers
• Brown VS. Board of Education: The Interactive Experience
• Foreign Relations of the U.S. (FRUS), 1961-1963: Vol.X: Cuba, 1961-1962: U.S. Department of State
• John F. Kennedy Library: Boston, MA
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum: Austin, TX
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: Stanford University
• National Civil Rights Museum: Memphis, TN
• The New York Times Looks Back: Presidential Election, 1960: John F. Kennedy VS. Richard M. Nixon
• Photo Tour: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Seattle Times
• President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection: NARA
• The Psychedelic 60s: University of Virginia Libraries
• Radical Times: The Antiwar Movement of the 1960s
• Sixties Fashion: Sixties City
• The Sixties Project: University of Virginia
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• The Wild Bohemian Home Page
• Woodstock '69 Page

1970s: Vietnam, Watergate, and the Aftermath

• 1970s Bestsellers
• American Cultural History: 1970-1979: Kingwood College Library
• American Architecture: 20th Century: 1970-1979
• Classic Motown: The Sound of Young America
• Dee T's 70s Page
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-Line Archival Collection: Duke University, Special Collections
• The Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum : Ann Arbor, MI
• Greatest Films of the 1970s: Filmsite.org
• Hit Shows of the Seventies: TV Party.com
• Kent May 4 Center: Kent State, May 1-4, 1970
• Love Canal Collection: University Library: SUNY Buffalo
• Meltdown at Three Miles Island: American Experience : PBS
• The Mideast Oil Crisis (1970s): Energy Matters
• National Organization for Women (NOW)
• President Jimmy Carter
• Roe v. Wade -- landmark abortion rights case
• Seventies Almanac: Year by Year
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I: 1972)
• Super Seventies RockSite
• Watergate 25: Washington Post.com

1980s: The Decade of Greed

• 51-L (25): The Challenger Mission: NASA -- official report of the Jan.28, 1986 disaster
• The 80's Server -- gateway to decade's pop culture
• The 1980s: 50 Years of Cable (TV) Technology: CED Magazine (Communications Engineering and Design)
• AIDS in Perspective: Surviving AIDS: NOVA: PBS -- timeframe of the pandemic
• American Cultural History: 1980-1989: Kingwood College Library
• The Atari History Museum -- leader in the home-gaming explosion
• Challenger Disaster: 10 Years Later: LIFE Magazine (Feb. 1996)
• Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters. Lawrence E. Walsh, Indep. Counsel. (Aug. 4, 1993) --documents 1980s Presidential scandal
• Greatest Films of the 1980s: Filmsite.org
• The History of Computers During My Lifetime: The 1980s. By Jason Patterson -- in-depth discussion of the first PCs
• InThe80s.com: The Eighties Nostalgia Site
• Reagan: The American Experience: PBS
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: Simi Valley, CA
• The S&L Crisis: A Chrono- Bibliography: U.S. FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
• "Supply-Side Tax Cuts and the Truth About the Reagan Economic Record." By William A. Niskamen and Stephen Moore. Policy Analysis, n.261, Oct. 22, 1996

1990s: The Technology Revolution

• 1990s Bestsellers
• American Cultural History: 1991-1999: Kingwood College Library
• Beyond the Fall: The Former Soviet Bloc in Transition, 1989-1999: Time.com
• A Brief History of Banned Music in the U.S.
• Chronicling a Legend: Michael Jordan: The Sporting News
• The Clinton Years: Frontline: PBS
• Clothes of the 90s
• Election 2000: CNN.com
• The Federal Reserve Board (FRB): Speeches of FRB Members, 1996-2001
• Forbes Top CEOs: Corporate America's Most Powerful People
• George Bush Presidential Library and Museum: College Station, TX
• Greatest Films of the 1990s: Filmsite.org
• GulfLINK: Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses: U.S. Department of Defense
• The Gulf War: Frontline: PBS
• Internet History: The Internet Society (ISOC)
• Last Battle of the Gulf War: Frontline: PBS -- focus on Gulf War Syndrome
• Media History Timeline: 1990s
• Microsoft Corporation
• NASA Office of Space Flight -- home to the MIR and Mars missions
• Napster
• The O.J. Simpson Trial: CNN
• Oklahoma City National Memorial
• The Report of the Independent Counsel, Sept. 9, 1998: The Starr Report
• Response to Terrorism: U.S. Department of State -- policies for domestic and international attacks
• U.S. V. Microsoft: U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
• Welcome to the 90s

Busse Library Resources

• Adams, John. Housing America in the 1980s / c1987. HD7293 .A625 1987
• Carroll, Peter N. It seemed like nothing happened: the tragedy / c1982. E169.12 .C29 1982
• Cayton, Mary Kupiec. Encyclopedia of American social history / 1993. HN 57 .E58 1993, Ref.
• Glennon, Lorraine. Our times: the illustrated history of the 20th century / c1995. D422 .O89 1995, Ref.
• Grenville, J.A.S. A history of the world in the twentieth century / 1994. D421 .G65 1994
• Hayden, Dolores. Redesigning the American dream: the future of housing, work / c1984. HD7293 .H39 1984
• Jackson, Rebecca. The 1960s: an annotated bibliography of social and political / 1992. HN 59. J3x 1992
• Johnson, Haynes Bonner. Divided we fall: gambling with history in the nineties / c1994. E885 .J65 1994
• Layman, Richard. American decades / c1994-. E169.12 .A42, Ref.
• Meltzer, Ellen. Day by day, the eighties / 1995. D848 .M45 1995, Ref.
• Mintz, Steven. Domestic revolutions: a social history of American family life / c1988. HQ535 .M46 1988
• Morgan, Edward P. The 60s experience: hard lessons about modern America / 1991. E841 .M64 1991
• Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. Violence: America in the sixties / [1968] HN58 .S33
• Shifflett, Crandall A. Victorian America, 1876-1913 / c1996. E174.5 .A5x 1996, Ref.
• Spain, Tom. America in the '40s: a sentimental journey / c1997. Video E 169.A494