Primary Source Documents
bullet 1960s Ads
bullet 1960s Buttons Culture - famous buttons of the 1960s
bullet The 1960 Presidential Campaign (American Museum of Moving Images)
bullet 1960 Presidential Election Statistics
bullet The 1964 Presidential Campaign (American Museum of Moving Images)
bullet 1964 Presidential Election Statistics
bullet The 1968 Presidential Campaign (American Museum of Moving Images)
bullet 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago - pictures
bullet 1968 Presidential Election Statistics
bullet 1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert Page
bullet 1969-1989: Diplomacy of Detente and the Waning of the Cold War
bullet About the War:  Vietnam Veterans of America
bullet Affirmative Action and Diversity Project
bullet The African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
bullet African American World Timeline (PBS)
bullet American in the Sixties:  Culture and Counter Culture
bullet American Cultural History:  1960-1969
bullet American Modernism and Abstract Expressionism
bullet American RadioWorks - The President Calling - John F. Kennedy
bullet American RadioWorks - The President Calling - Lyndon B. Johnson
bullet American RadioWorks - The President Calling - Richard M. Nixon
bullet Andy Warhol
bullet "Animal Farm" - Herblock's political cartoons on the Social Issue s of the 1960s
bullet Another Vietnam - Pictures of the War from the Other Side
bullet A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
bullet Apollo 11-The First Mission to the Moon (1969)
bullet "Ascent into the Unknown" - Herblock's political cartoons on Vietnam and Other Key Issues of the 1960s
bullet The Baby Boom-How Do We Know It's a Boom?
bullet Baby Boomer Homepage
bullet The Bay of Pigs Invasion - Brigada Asalto 2506 Page
bullet Bay of Pigs Reports
bullet Berlin Wall Online
bullet Bibliography of the Vietnam War
bullet A Biography of America:  The Sixties (1954-1974) - Annenberg/CPB
bullet Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
bullet Black Panther Newspaper Collection Online - access to articles appearing in the BPP paper from 1968-1969
bullet The Black Panthers
bullet Bob Dylan's Original Lyrics
bullet BoomerWeb.net
bullet Cesar E. Chavez
bullet Charles Manson
bullet Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment:  1923-1996
bullet Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism:  1830-end
bullet The Chicago Seven Trial:  1969-1970
bullet "The Civil Rights Era" (LOC)
bullet Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
bullet Civil Rights Movement (Spartacus)
bullet The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965
bullet Civil Rights Oral History Interviews, Spokane Washington
bullet Civil Rights Veterans
bullet Civil Rights Timeline (Seattle Times)
bullet Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson
bullet The Clyde M. Flack Collection- Letters From Vietnam
bullet COINTELPRO: The FBI's Covert Action Programs Against American Citizens
bullet Cold War International History Project
bullet The Cold War Museum
bullet Cold War Policies:  1945-1991
bullet The Cold War series (CNN)
bullet Cold War Timeline
bullet CongressLink- Tutorial on the Civil Rights Act of 1964
bullet The Counterculture of the Sixties
bullet Cuban Missile Crisis - many document links
bullet The Cuban Missile Crisis - Audio Materials from the Kennedy White House - secretly recorded conversations made by John F. Kennedy during his presidency
bullet Digger Archives- San Francisco 1966-68 and Beyond
bullet Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement.
bullet Documents on the War in Vietnam:  1945-1975
bullet Documents Relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis
bullet Equal Rights Amendment
bullet Environmentalism Timeline:  1960-1986
bullet Executive Orders - President Johnson
bullet Executive Orders - President Kennedy
bullet Executive Orders - President Nixon
bullet Executive Orders of President Kennedy (10914-11127)
bullet Free Speech Movement--Student Protest Movement at U. C. Berkeley, 1964-65
bullet From Swastika to Jim Crow - (Frontline PBS series)
bullet Foreign Relations of the United States 1961-1963      (Kennedy & Johnson Eras)
bullet Fourteen Days in October:  The Cuban Missile Crisis
bullet General Images of The 1960s
bullet George Wallace- Settin' the Woods on Fire (The American Experience)
bullet A Glossary of Hippie Expressions
bullet The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965  (1)
bullet The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965  (2)
bullet The Greensboro Sit-Ins
bullet HeadStart.org
bullet "Heritage of Stone" - article on JFK by Steven Hager
bullet Hippies on the Web
bullet The Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island:  1969-1971
bullet Investigating the Vietnam War (Spartacus)
bullet Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy
bullet JFK Assassination Reports and Records
bullet JFK: Loss and Legacy
bullet JFK Resources Online
bullet John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library and Museum
bullet John F. Kennedy (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet John F. Kennedy Photo History
bullet John F. Kennedy (2) - POTUS site
bullet Kennedy at the Berlin Wall
bullet The Kennedys (The American Experience - PBS)
bullet Kent State Investigations - FBI Freedom of Information Act original documents (1,146 pages)
bullet Ku Klux Klan 1964-65 Investigations - FBI Freedom of Information Act original documents (588 pages)
bullet Labor History Timeline:  1778-1991
bullet LBJ in the Oval Office - Audio copies of conversations with President Johnson on the Vietnam War
bullet Lady Bird Johnson (PBS)
bullet Lee Harvey Oswald Photos
bullet Los Angeles Times 5-Part Series on Cesar Chavez (2000)
bullet Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
bullet Lyndon Baines Johnson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet Lyndon Baines Johnson (2) - POTUS site
bullet Lyndon Johnson & Vietnam Timeline
bullet Major Events in:  1960    1961    1962    1963    1964    1965    1966    1967    1968    1969
bullet The Malcolm X Research Site
bullet Map-->"The Bay of Pigs"
bullet Map-->"Clickable Map of Vietnam"
bullet Map-->"The Cold War:  1960-1991"
bullet Map-->"Vietnam"
bullet Map-->"Vietnam:  1966"
bullet Map-->"Wars and Atrocities in the Third Quarter of the 20c:  1950-1975"
bullet Martin Luther King, Jr.:  A Life Tribute
bullet Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassination Investigation Summary - FBI Freedom of Information Act original documents (221 pages)
bullet Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site
bullet Memphis:  We Remember
bullet Mexican Migration Project
bullet Mississippi Burning - Investigation into the Death of the 3 Civil Rights Workers - FBI Freedom of Information Act original documents (948 pages)
bullet Modern American Art
bullet Montgomery Bus Boycott
bullet The Montgomery Bus Boycott Page
bullet Mort Sahl - American Masters (PBS)
bullet The Mort Sahl Site
bullet The Mylai Massacre Home Page
bullet The National Archives Learning Curve | Cold War
bullet National Civil Rights Museum
bullet The Nixon Tapes: Secret Recordings from the Nixon White House
bullet NuclearFiles.org - many documents
bullet Operation Rolling Thunder
bullet The Peoples' Century:  Boomtime (1945-1973) - PBS
bullet Photo Tour of the Civil Rights Movement
bullet Political/Social Buttons of the 60s
bullet Political Speeches of the 1960s (audio files)
bullet Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
bullet The Psychedelic 60s (Univ. of VA)
bullet Rachel Carson Homestead- Birthplace of a Healthier Planet
bullet Radical Times: The Antiwar Movement of the 1960s
bullet The Real Thirteen Days:  The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (The National Security Archive)
bullet Religion in Post-World War II America
bullet Retrospective on the 1968 Democratic Convention - NewsHour Online
bullet Richard M. Nixon (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet Richard M. Nixon (2) - POTUS site
bullet The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace
bullet The Richard Nixon Video Archive
bullet Rights Revolution of the Sixties (outline notes)
bullet "The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement in the U.S." - essay
bullet Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Summary - FBI Freedom of Information original documents (138 pages)
bullet Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland, Ohio)
bullet "Scenes of American Life" - art works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
bullet Sitting for Justice - The Woolworth Sit-Ins
bullet The Sixth Floor Museum of Dealey Plaza (Dallas, TX)
bullet The Sixties Project
bullet The Smothers Brothers
bullet SNCC 1960-1966
bullet Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee - FBI Freedom of Information Act original documents on whether SNCC members were communists (2,887 pages)
bullet Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan Nixon
bullet Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
bullet To The Moon (NOVA)
bullet The United Farm Workers Official Web Site
bullet United States in Vietnam 1945-1975 - Comprehensive Timelines with Quotes and Analysis
bullet U. S. vs Cecil Price et al. - ("Mississippi Burning" Trial), 1967
bullet Vietnam Combat Art
bullet Vietnam Maps (1954-1975)
bullet Vietnam Online (The American Experience PBS series)
bullet Vietnam - Vets with a Mission Site
bullet VietnamWar.net
bullet The Vietnam War (History Central)
bullet The Vietnam War Declassification Project
bullet "The Vietnam War and the Tragedy of Containment" - an electronic lecture by Michael O'Malley
bullet Vietnam War Internet Project
bullet Vietnam Women's Memorial Project
bullet Vietnam Women Veterans
bullet Vietnam:  Yesterday and Today
bullet The Virtual Wall - A Digital Legacy Project for Remembrance (The Vietnam Memorial)
bullet A Visual Journey:  The Photographs of Lisa Law (1965-1971)
bullet Voices of the Civil Rights Era - video and sound clips
bullet Walking Point - recollections by soldiers
bullet The War in Vietnam:  A Story in Photographs
bullet The Warren Report
bullet We Shall Overcome - Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
bullet WhiteHouseTapes.org -- The secret White House recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower
bullet The Whole World Was Watching:  An Oral History of 1968
bullet Woodstock Festival & Concert (1969)
bullet Writers of the Civil Rights Era

 
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bullet 1880s-1960s:  Samples of Jim Crow Laws
bullet 1940-62:  National Defense Budgets, 1940-1964 - chart
bullet 1940-90:  Budget Deficits, 1940-1990 - chart
bullet 1940-95:  US military (national defense) outlays, 1940-95
bullet 1945-90:  Defense Expenditures, Armed Forces Strength - chart
bullet 1950-70:  Unemployment, 1950-1970 - chart
bullet 1950-85:  Women in the Workforce, 1950-1985 - chart
bullet 1960-65:  Federal Spending on Social Programs, Excluding Social Security - chart
bullet 1960-71:  Various Documents on the Ideology of the "New Left"      (additional documents)
bullet 1960-72:  U.S. Troop Levels in Vietnam, 1960-1972 - chart
bullet 1960-85:  American Birthrate, 1960-1985 - chart
bullet 1960-90:  Consumer Price Index, 1960-1990 - chart
bullet early 1960s:  "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" - song lyrics about the Native-American issue by Peter LaFarge
bullet early 1960s:  "My Country 'Tis of Thy People are Dying" - song lyrics about the Native-American issue by Buffy Sainte-Marie
bullet 1960:  1960 Economic Statistics - Economy & Prices
bullet 1960:  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association - Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas (9/12)
bullet 1960:  Can 52,600,000 TV Set Owners Be Wrong - Look Magazine Assesses American Television in 1960
bullet 1960:  "The Communist-Led Riots Against the House Committee on Un-American Activities In San Francisco, California - report by the Committee on Un-American Activities (5/12-14)
bullet 1960:  First Televised Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy (9/26)
bullet 1960:  Fourth Televised Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy (10/21)
bullet 1960:  Ike on Nixon's contributions as Vice President (666K sound .avi)
bullet 1960:  "Kennedy Is Apparent Victor; Lead Cut in Two Key States; Democrats Retain Congress" - The New York Times - front page with full text
bullet 1960:  Kennedy proposes the Peace Corps (10/14)
bullet 1960:  "Leo Szilard Interview:  President Truman Did Not Understand" - U.S. News & World Report, 8/15, pages 68-71
bullet 1960:  Memorandum of Conference with President Kennedy from General Maxwell Taylor (9/20)
bullet 1960:  “Men Without Women” - Eleanor Harris in Look (11/22)
bullet 1960:  “Mr. Local Custom Must Die” - An Analysis of the Racial Situation in the South in 1960 as Civil Rights Activism Increased
bullet 1960:  On the definition of liberalism - speech by Senator John F. Kennedy (9/14)
bullet 1960:  "The New Mood in Politics" - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. from his book, The Politics of Hope
bullet 1960:  Second Televised Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy (10/7)
bullet 1960:  Secret U.S. Embassy Cable on U-2 Incident (5/7)
bullet 1960:  Senator John F. Kennedy Announcing His Candidacy for the Presidency of the United States (1/2)
bullet 1960:  Soviet Statement to U.S. on U-2 Incident (5/10)
bullet 1960:  Third Televised Presidential Debate - Nixon v. Kennedy (10/13)
bullet 1960:  U-2 Spy Incident documents
bullet 1960:  You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists) - Dr. Fred Schwartz - published by the Christian Anti-Communists Crusade
bullet 1960s:  "'60s Rave" - photo of hippies
bullet 1960-61:  Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges
bullet 1961:  1961 Economic Statistics - Economy & Prices
bullet 1961:  Briefing on Berlin for President Kennedy by John C. Ausland
bullet 1961:  "Dedication" - poem by Robert Frost composed for and read at President Kennedy's Inauguration
bullet 1961:  Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech
bullet 1961:  First Strike Options and the Berlin Crisis, September 1961 - New Documents from The Kennedy Administration
bullet 1961:  Founding Documents of the Peace Corps
bullet 1961:  Kennedy Memo on Apollo Program (4/20)
bullet 1961: