"This is, of course, our very own cycle.
Beginning with the birth of our version of the idealist generation, the
Baby Boomers (approximately 1943), and continuing to this very day."
The Television News Archive has systematically
recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts since 1968.
Although there is limited full-text here, it is excellent as a starting
point, and as a timeline of modern history. Go to a particular date, and
read the transcript of what was covered on the evening TV news that night.
1950s-1970s: Social Reform - http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/topics6.html
Calisphere is the University of California's online collection of primary source materials about California history. This particular page takes you to documents about the civil rights movement, the Free Speech movement, Watts, and the struggle for social justice.
Emphasis is on the artistic and literary
influences on the 1960s. This exhibition from the University of Virginia
is well documented with images from that period, and traces the roots to
the 19th century of Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman.
The
Sixties - http://www.slip.net/~scmetro/sixties.htm
The 1960s were a revolutionary, turbulent
time of great social and technological change!
The story of the rock music that accompanied
the 1960s. Many links to the bands, musicians and songwriters of this influential
period. Helps to understand the social and political upheaval of the times.
San Francisco was a major center of
rock music in the sixties. Many of the popular bands lived there (Grateful
Dead, Jefferson Airplane, etc.) Many other groups and performers came to
perform at the top venues: Fillmore Auditorium, Winterland, and the Avalon
Ballroom, plus a number of other clubs and halls.
Brief lists of music recording groups, listed according to the decade in which they were popular.
The Nixon Links - http://www.tezcat.com/~nrn/nixon/nixon.shtml
President Richard Nixon's political career spanned more than three decades (50's - 70's). This page attempts to link to information about this remarkable man and his times. (Also includes links to realted people, i.e., V.P. Agnew.)
A view of 1968, created thirty years later by students at South Kingston (RI) High School through interviews with Rhode Islanders. Find transcripts, audio, and edited stories about topics such as the Vietnam War, civil rights, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Also find essays, a timeline of events, a glossary, and a bibliography. A joint product between the high school and Brown University. (LII)
Two exhibits: "Internal Workings of
the Soviet System", covers internal politics and aspects of Soviet reality
that were hidden or falsified in official propaganda. "The Soviet Union
and the United States", shows how Soviet-American relations were conducted
between governments, between the publics of the two countries, and between
the Communist parties of the USSR and the USA.
Updated by the Redwood
Cybrary Webspinner: January
26, 1999. Bessie Chin Library @ Redwood High School, 395 Doherty
Drive, Larkspur, CA 94939 -- 415.945.3662