Documents
John
Foster Dulles’s ‘Massive Retaliation’ Speech
John
Clellon’s Holmes’s This Is the Beat Generation
Eisenhower’s
Farewell Speech on the ‘Military-Industrial’ Complex
John
Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society (1958)
Eisenhower’s
Response to the Little Rock Crisis (September 24, 1957)
Michael
Harrington’s The Other America (1962)
Brown
v. Board of Education
An
Account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown
v. Board of Education, Part II
Cooper
v. Aaron
Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Founding Statement (1960)
Declaration
of Independence, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
The
Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (1962)
A
1962 Debate from the National Review
Betty
Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
Old
Voices, New Voices: Mainland Puerto Rican Perspectives and Experiences
Images
Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Sputnik
A
Poster for the Science-Fiction Movie Invaders from Mars
A
Nuclear Test Explosion over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (1954)
A
1950s Family Watching TV
Comparison
of Racial Images on Television in the 1950s
Photograph
of Chuck Berry
Teen
Star Annette Funicello Plays 45s on Her Record Player
Teenage
Rock & Roll Fans
Elvis
Presley Performs in 1956
Young
Beatniks in Greenwich Village
Photograph
of Rosa Parks after Supreme Court Outlawed Segregation on Public Transportation
Photograph
of Emmett Till, the 14-Year-Old Lynched for Speaking to White Women
Photograph
of Martin Luther King, Jr. Being Arrested
A
Civil Rights Worker Being Arrested During Protests in Birmingham, Alabama
(May 1963)
Sit-In
in Greensboro, North Carolina (February 1, 1960)
Freedom
Riders John Lewis and James Zwerg after They Were Attacked
Photograph
of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Communist Leader
President
John F. Kennedy
A
Buddhist Monk Burning Himself in Protest Against the Government of Ngo Dinh
Diem
President
Lyndon Baines Johnson
The
‘Pink Collar Ghetto’ of Women’s Work in the 1950s
A
Stylized Image Illustrating the Cultural Ideal of Homemaking in the 1950s
Antonia
Pantoja, Puerto Rican Community Leader
Maps
The
‘Great Migration,’ 1900—1970
Foreign-Born
Population by State
Timelines
Unionization
Rates, 1930—1999
Homeownership,
1930—1990
The
Postwar Economic Boom, 1946—1962
Labor
Trends for Women, 1950—1980
The
Baby Boom, 1945—1965
Women
in Higher Education, 1950—1980
Marriage
and Divorce Rates, 1950—1996
Single-Parent
Households
Sources
of Immigration
Interactive Modules
20th-Century
American Demographics
The
Cold War
