Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Magnetic Tapes
A brief history covering Magnetic Tapes, initially used in the 1950s to replace punched cards, and used primarily today as a backup device. The artifact is on display at the Computer History Museum. This site provides a glimpse into the...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Eisenhower and the Cold War
A brief look at President's Eisenhower's commitment to restraining Communism in the Cold War years of the 1950s.
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Michael Morrison's History of Computer Animation
This Carnegie Mellon site features inventions and discoveries in the field of computer animation from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Pop Art
A site with artists and links to the Pop Art movement of the 1950s and 60s. There are links to museums with great images.
BBC
Bb Ci: Audio Interviews With Agatha Christie
The BBC produced this page including a brief biography of one of the world's most famous mystery writers, and links to audio interviews Christie did in the 1950s and 1960s.
Digital History
Digital History: Postwar America: 1945 1960, the Containment Policy
Digital History discusses the Containment Policy of the 1950s. Includes information on the Marshall Plan, the fate of Germany, the Berlin blockade, and NATO.
Digital History
Digital History: Years of Decision [Pdf]
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and the thinking of their leaders. Students are asked to consider five...
Digital History
Digital History: Discrimination in Public Accommodations [Pdf]
Segregation and Jim Crow laws codified a color line in the United States. African-Americans began pushing back against segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Read about the non-violent actions taken and how these actions resulted in the...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Women's Movement
An overview of the Women's Movement and the changes that took place during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Maps: Causes of the Vietnam War
This essay from The Oxford Companion to American Military History goes into the causes of the Vietnam War and shows how the United States became embroiled incrementally from the 1950s up to 1965. An interesting section explains how the...
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: Senator Joe Mc Carthy
An excerpt from a book on Senator Joseph McCarthy. Includes a description of his life and career and details the impact his actions and ideas had on America in the 1950's.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: The Hollywood Blacklist
This site describes what went on in Hollywood during the Red Scare of the 1950s when many actors and directors were asked to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about possible communist activity in Hollywood.
Stanford University
Mlk and Global Freedom Struggle: Congress of Racial Equality
Encyclopedia entry explores the involvement of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in America's civil rights struggle throughout the late 1950s and into the mid-1960s.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Mid Canada Line
A concise description of the Mid-Canada Line of radar stations. Covers history of this early-warning system that was in place in the 1950s and 1960s, a list of the locations and a list of the POL Supply Points that provided fuel to the...
PBS
The Sixties: House Un American Activities Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee gained noteriety in the 1950s with Joseph McCarthy and his witch hunts. The committee was still in existence in the early 1960s. Read this brief article to see what it was investigating then.
Other
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is a series of articles that discusses the origins, battles, and outcome of this conflict that involved much of Southeast Asia during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. This introduction gives the background for U.S. involvement.
Other
National Center for Biotechnology Education: Dna50: Timeline
Follow a timeline which describes the discovery of the DNA double helix model in the early part of the 1950s.
NASA
Nasa: Bibliography on Martian Exploration
This site from NASA provides a selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration presents classical Mars reading material from Percival Lowell and Alfred Russel Wallace from the turn of the last century, Werner von Braun and Willy...
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: American Black Duck
A fact sheet giving information about the American black duck and efforts to restore the population to its 1950s levels.
Oklahoma State University
Chronicles of Oklahoma: Custer's Hunting Horse [Pdf]
A biographical sketch of a Kiowa Native American named "Hunting Horse" who lived from 1846 to the 1950's and for a time served with General George Custer as a scout. The article gives cultural details on the life of the Kiowa.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies: Charles White
An essay about Charles White from an issue-long portfolio of works by African-American artists published in the "Museum Studies" Journal of the Art Institute of Chicago. Includes brief biographical notes and a critic's appraisal of...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Magnetic Core Memory
Magnetic core memory was developed in the late 1940s and 1950s, and remained the primary way in which early computers read, wrote and stored data until RAM came along in the 1970s. (Java tutorial)
Duke University
William Gedney: Photographs and Writings
A beautiful collection of black and white photographs from around the world. Taken by William Gedney in the 1950s-1980s they show true artistry.
Other
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The collection of more than 150,000 maps focuses on rare 18th and 19th-century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps,...
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