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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Phillips Curve

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explores the relationship of unemployment to inflation in the 1960s and after. Students will discover the short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment when unemployment is less than its natural rate. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Voting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Since the 1960s, many Americans eligible to vote have not bothered to do so- not even in presidential elections. Low rates of participation in voting have been worrisome to people interested in preserving our democratic traditions....
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1980 Present: Continuity and Change in the Postwar Era

For Students 9th - 10th
How much did the events of the tumultuous postwar era reshape American national identity? Kim discusses the extent to which developments like the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and student protests of the 1960s changed...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Second Wave Feminism

For Students 9th - 10th
During the 1960s, influenced and inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, women of all ages began to fight to secure a stronger role in American society.
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Article
English Club

English Club: History of Soul Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of soul music from its origins in gospel music, through Motown and Memphis Soul, to contemporary rhythm and blues. The site includes three videos: Sam Cooke singing "A Change is Gonna Come," from 1964, with images from...
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Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Space Race

For Students 9th - 10th
This set focuses on the Space Race during the mid-1950s and 1960s and examines the impact of the Space Race today. Includes a teacher's guide.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Cesar Chavez Joined Larry Itliong to Demand Farm Workers' Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
In the late 1960s, grapes grabbed national attention -- and not in a good way. Newly organized farm workers, fronted by Mexican-American civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez, asked Americans to boycott the popular California fruit because...
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of Algeria Settlements

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jews of Algeria are a very diverse cultural group, owing in part to Algeria's turbulent history. Now they constitute the most Westernized Jewish community originating from North Africa and are established mostly in France. Less than...
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: 7 of the Most Stunning Nba Trades

For Students 9th - 10th
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James led their new teams to multiple championships. Bill Russell, dealt by St. Louis to Boston in 1956, powered the Celtics' 1960s dynasty. The greatest, and most shocking, trades in basketball history...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: American Roots Music: Lesson Three: Gospel Music Meets a Wide Audience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The third lesson deals with the emergence of gospel as a form of popular music among a general public. Gospel is a musical genre with roots in the African American church, particularly in the South. Between the 1940s and the 1960s,...
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Article
Other

Stair Galleries: Pop, Neo Pop and Post Pop

For Students 9th - 10th
This article shows the connection between Pop Art of the 1960s and the Neo-Pop and Post-Pop movements of the 1980s, 1990s, and into the 21st century.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: Woodstock 1969: How a Music Festival That Should've Been a Disaster Became Iconic Instead

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifty years later, people are still trying to match the bizarre accident that was Woodstock '69. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people gathered on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Billed as...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: Brief History of the First Earth Day and What We Can Learn From Its Success Lesson Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
Earth Day grew out of the environmental movement in the late 1960s in response to a series of environmental disasters that took lives, marred natural beauty and threatened animal species. An estimated 20 million Americans participated in...
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Website
PBS

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion Web site to the PBS series. Provides an overview of the pivotal events, culture, and politics of the Sixties. Links to lesson plans and related material for a more in-depth study.
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Website
Brown University

The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968

For Students 9th - 10th
Memories of 1968 are collected via interviews conducted by high school students. Important issues during that time include civil rights, Vietnam, the politics of the time and women's rights. There are transcripts of interviews and key...
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Handout
New York University

Sds: Students for a Democratic Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource offers annotated explanation of a number of university student protest organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society and its chapter at New York University in 1965.
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Website
Other

Pdn and Kodak Professional: Richard Avedon: The Sixties

For Students 9th - 10th
View excerpts from Avedon's book "The Sixties," a book of portraits of influential persons and celebrities who typify sixties culture.
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Study Guide
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Period 8: 1945 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy resource provides a table of contents with notes for several sections of AP US History: Period 8: 1945-1980.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: American Masters: Bob Dylan

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion website of a film documentary directed by Martin Scorsese about the life and music of Bob Dylan. Understand Dylan's career and the impact of his music on the politics of the time, his influences, and his many musical...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Dark Side of Suburbia

For Students 9th - 10th
Some background information that sheds light on how suburbia wasn't paradise for everyone especially women and African Americans in the 1950s and 60s.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: Barbie Through the Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at Barbie's cultural revolution through the decades. Barbie's official birthday is March 9, 1959 -- the day she was officially introduced to the world. Handler always saw Barbie as a reflection of the times, with the first...
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eBook
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Election of 1968

For Students 9th - 10th
A section on the turmoil of politics and protest surrounding the election of 1968.
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Website
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Gemini Artist Workshop 1966 1996

For Students 9th - 10th
An invaluable site showing works and discussing artists who were part of the Gemini Artist Workshop. Artist include David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Nancy Kienholz and over 50 others.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Watts: The Ghetto Erupts [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit called 'African-Americans in the Land of Equality.' It looks at the causes, events, and aftermath of the Watts Riots in 1965.

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