The Fifties


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Arts and Entertainment
Headline Makers
Marlon Brando
A concise biographical essay on Marlon Brando
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Jack Kerouac
A concise biographical essay on Jack Kerouac
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Marilyn Monroe
Time Magazine names Marilyn Monroe as one of the most influential people of the 100 years
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/monroe01.html

Edward R. Murrow
This site chronicles the life of Edward R. Murrow
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/literary/murrow.htm

Jackson Pollack
A biographical essay of Jackson Pollack, American Painter.
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com

Elvis Presley
The official web site of Elvis Presley
http://www.elvis.com

Topics
The Beat Generation
This site contains mini-bios on many of the beat writers
http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/index.html

Tonight Show debuts
The history of the Tonight Show
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/tonightshow/tonightshow.htm

3-D Movies
Timeline of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip.
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/history/timeline.html

Peanuts comic debuts
This site describes the creation of the long running comic strip.
http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/charlesschulz.html

TV's More Prominent Role
This site provides discussion on television's rise in popularity in the 1950's
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html#tv

Abstract Expressionism
This site describes Abstract Expressionism and discusses the artists involved.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0802228.html

The Hollywood Blacklist
Actors, actresses, directors, and films that were affected in American and Hollywood history.
http://www.classicmovies.org/articles/aa032899.htm

The birth of rock and roll
The history of rock and roll
http://www.history-of-rock.com/indx.html

The Rise of Science Fiction
This site discusses the golden age of science fiction films.
http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms2.html

Business and the Economy
Headline Makers
Jimmy Hoffa
Biography of James R. Hoffa, labor union leader.
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Ray Kroc
Meet the man who made McDonalds famous.
http://galenet.galegroup.com

George Meany
The builder of the modern AFL-CIO.
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/meany.cfm

Topics:
First Xerox Machine
Meet Chester Carlson, inventor of xerography.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569889/Chester_Carlson.html

First Sports Illustrated (mag)
This site explains how the popular sports magazine got its start.
http://www.bookrags.com/history/popculture/sports-illustrated-bbbb-03/

McDonald's Begins
The history of McDonalds
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/mcd_history_pg1.html

AFL-CIO /Teamsters
This site chronicles the history of the Teamsters Labor Union
http://development04.teamster.org/resources/members/teamstercenturya.htm

Air Travel
This site discusses the growth and development of air travel.
http://www.iata.org/about/history_3.htm?iata=iata

Desegregation: Brown vs. the Board of Education
This site tells the story of Brown v. Board of Education and the history makers involved in the case.
http://brownvboard.org/index.htm

Government, Politics and Law
Headline Makers
Joseph McCarthy
Biographical essay of Joseph McCarthy, United States Senator, 1947--1957
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Rosa Parks
Biography of Rosa Parks, Pioneer of Civil Rights
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1

Topics:
ICBM's: Long Range Bombing
This article discusses the intercontinental ballistic missile and how and why the Air Force acquired it.
http://www.afa.org/magazine/july2005/0705icbm.html

The Red Scare
This site provides information on The Red Scare during the 1950's.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=495

Civil Rights
This site provides milestones in the modern civil rights movement.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

The Cold War
This interactive site includes maps, timelines, archival footage and more.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war

The Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
This site contains links to many archived files from this case.
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/Rosenbergs/Rosenbergsfiles.html

The Korean War
This site contains an overview and photos of The Korean War.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/kowar/kowar.htm

Lifestyles and Social Trends
Headline Makers:
Coco Chanel
Profile of the famous French couturiere, Coco Chanel
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Mamie Eisenhower
Biography of First Lady Mamie Eisenhower
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=35

Topics:
First Frozen foods/dinners
Gather around the Television Set: The birth of the TV Dinner
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/tvdinner.html

Women's Roles
This site contains plenty of information on how women were viewed in the 1950's and their home front involvement in WWII.
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/fifties.htm

Fashion
Petticoats, circle skirts and beehives...find fashion trends of the 1950's.
http://www.fashion-era.com/1950s/index.htm

Youth Fads
Find out what was popular among youth in the 1950's
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html#fads

Medicine and Health
Headline Makers:
Albert Sabin
A close-up look at Albert Sabin's life and significant achievements.
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Topics:
First Artificial Heart
The history of the artificial heart.
http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/tech.php?id=2345813&lid=1

Polio Vaccine Developed
This site chronicles the development of the Polio Vaccine
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/polio.html

Kidney Dialysis Machine Created
A brief history of the kidney dialysis machine and its creator, Willem Kolff.
http://www.heartlandscience.org/medhs/kidney.htm

Ultrasound Invented
A brief introduction to the history of the Ultrasound.
http://library.thinkquest.org/16541/eng/learn/library/content/ultrasound.htm

Sports
Headline Makers:
Ben Hogan
The biography of Ben Hogan
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Gordie Howe
An in-depth profile of Gordie Howe's life and career.
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Mickey Mantle
The biography of baseball legend Mickey Mantle.
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Willie Mays
A biographical profile of baseball great Willie Mays.
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Althea Gibson/first African-Am tennis player...
A comprehensive look at the first African American Tennis player, Althea Gibson.
http://galenet.galegroup.com

Topics:
Integrated Baseball
Meet the players who integrated major league baseball.
http://www.aafla.org/9arr/JackieRobinson/aafbb.htm

Pro Basketball
Browse through baseball game history from 1950-1959.
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hof_weekend/hof_game/history/1950s.htm

Pro Football
This site contains football stories on great players, teams, traditions and moments during the 1950's.
http://www.profootballhof.com/history/Decade_by_Decade_1950s.jsp

Science and Technology
Headline Makers:
Wernher von Braun
Meet Wernher von Braun, one of the word's first rocket engineers.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/history/VonBraun/vonBraun.html

The first computer
A timeline of computer history in the 1950's.
http://www.kidcompute.com/1950s.html

The H-Bomb
This site presents the chemical composition of the H-Bomb.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/h/hydrogn-bm.asp

Jet Aircraft
This site contains information on the opening of the commercial jet era.
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Commercial_Aviation/Opening_of_Jet_era/Tran6.htm

LP's and 45's
See the difference between LP's and 45's.
http://www.history-of-rock.com/record_formats.htm

Sputnik and the Space Race
This site contains information on Sputnik and the dawn of the Space Age.
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/index.html

Books on the 1950's in the Library Technology Center at Prospect High School

The 1950’s

R 909.825 Mer
Day by Day, The Fifties
New York : Facts on File, 1979

R 973.9 AME V.6
America in the 20th Century, 1950-1959
New York : Marshall Cavendish, 1995

R 973.9 Ame
American Decades, 1950-1959
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994

R 973.9 EPS V.2
20th Century Pop Culture: The 50’s
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2000

R 973.9 Kal
The 1950’s A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades
Lucent Books, Inc., 1999

R 973.921 FIF V.l, V.2 and V.3
The Fifties in America
Salem Press, Inc., 2005

391 BAK
Fashions of a Decade: The 1950’s
New York : Facts on File, c1991

391 Rey
20th Century Fashion: The 40’s & 50’s
Milwaukee, WI : Gareth Stevens Pub., 2000

509 PAR
1940-60: The Nuclear Age
Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2001

629.2222 Ras
Fifties Stylish American Cars – Decade of Dazzle
Osceola, WI, USA : Motorbooks International, 1987

629.28 Con
Grease Machines
Beekman House, 1978810.9 Fre

The Fifties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
Deland, FL : Everett/Edwards, 1970

909.82 NIN
1950’s Decades of the 20th Century
Prescott, AZ: Eldorado Inc., 2005

909.82 YAP
The Hulton Getty Picture Collection, 1950’s
Koln : Konemann, 1998

909.82 Yea
Historic Decade, 1950-1960
Year Inc., 1960

909.825 Dra
The Fifties in Vogue
New York : H. Holt, c1987

909.825 Har
The Forties and Fifties: An Illustrated History in Colour, 1946-1959
London : Macdonald and Co., 1975

909.825 M
Mid-Century World
New York : Newsweek Books, 1975

917.3 Tim
This Fabulous Century, 1950-1960
Time, Inc., 1969

973.9 CRA V.6
History of the 1950's
Mankato, MN : Weigl Publishers, 2001

973.9 Roc
Rock & Roll Generation
Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1998

973.91 AME
The American Dream: The 50’s
Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1998

973.918 C
The Nightmare Decade
New York : Random House, 1971

973.918 Leu
The Age of Change - From 1945
Time Life Books, 1964, 1974

973.92 Eis
Private Lives: Men and Women of the Fifties
New York : Franklin Watts, 1986

973.92 Fin
The Way Things Never Were
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999

973.92 Mil
The Fifties: The Way We Really Were
Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1977

973.92 NIN
The 1950’s
San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, 2000

GENERAL BOOKS
R 305.235 ROL
Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

R 391 WAT V.1, V.2, V.3, V.4, V.5
Twentieth Century Fashion - Volumes 1 - 5
Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001

R 791.43 Cin
Cinema Year by Year 1894-2003
London,: Dorling Kindersley Limited, c2003

R 791.43 ONE
100 Years of American Film
New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 2000

R 791.4575 FRA
Buyer’s Guide to Fifty Years of TV on Video
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999

R 909.82 NAT
National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century
Washington D.C.: The Society, 1998

R 909.82 Twe
The Twentieth Century Volumes I, II, III, IV, V
North Dighton, Mass. : JG Press, 2000

R 909.82 TWE
The Twentieth Century Day By Day
London ; New York : DK Publishing, 2000

R 973 Chr
Chronicle of America (DK)
New York, NY : Dorling-Kindersley, 1995

R 973 Chr
Chronicle of America
Mount Kisco, NY: Chronicle Publications, 1989

R 973.02 GRO
The American Years
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999

R 973.9 BOW
Bowling, Beatniks, & Bell Bottoms - Volumes 1 - 5
Detroit: UXL, 2002

R 973.9 EVE
Events that Shaped the Century
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1998

R 973.9 Ste
Jane & Michael Stern’s Encyclopedia of Pop Culture
New York: Harper Perennial, 1992

R 973.91 GOR
American Chronicle
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999

R 973.91 UXL 1900 - 1999
American Decades – Volumes 1 - 10
Detroit: UXL, 2003

391 EWI
History of 20th Century Fashion
New York, NY: Costume & Fashion Press, 1992

391 ICO
Icons of Fashion
Munich; New York: Prestel, 1999

391 Men
20th Century Fashion
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999

391 Mil
Dressed for the Occasion: What Americans Wore 1620-1970
Minneapolis: Lerner Publication, 1999

629.13 Cen
Century of Flight
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1999

629.222 Aus
Great Classic Cars
New York: Crescent Books: Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1986

629.222 Wil
Classic American Cars
New York, NY: DK Publishing, 1997

709.04 ART Volumes 1 and 2
Art of the 20th Century
Koln; New York: Taschen, 1998

709.73 HAS
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900 - 1950
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton, 1999

709.73 PHI
The American Century: Art and Culture 1950 - 2000
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton, 1999

724.6 SHA
Twentieth Century Architecture
New York: Facts on File, 1991

724.6074 AT
At the End of the Century - One Hundred Years of Architecture
Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Harry N. Abrams, 1998

746.92 FAS
The Fashion Book
London: Phaidon, 1998

779.9973 BUS
Picturing the Century
Washington, DC : National Archives and Records Adminstration in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1999

781.6309 GRE
A Century of Pop: A Hundred Years of Music that Changed the World
Chicago, Ill. : A Cappella Books, 1998

909.82 Chi (Oversize)
Chicago Daily News: One Hundred Years of Famous Front Pages
Chicago Daily News

909.82 GIU
The 20th Century An Epoch of Dramatic Change
Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s Press, 1999

909.82 JEN
The Century
Doubleday, 1998

909.82 Pag (Oversize)
Page One: Major Events, 1920-1981
Arno Press, 1981

909.82 Pow
Power: A Political History of the Twentieth Century
New York : Oxford University Press, 1990

909.82 Rea
Great Events of the 20th Century
Montreal : Reader's Digest Association (Canada), 1977

909.82 Rob
Twentieth Century - The History of the World 1901 - 2000
New York: Viking, 1999

917.303 A
American Century - One Hundred Years of Changing Life Styles in America
New York : American Heritage Press, [1972]

920.009 Peo
People of the Century
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999

920.009 Peo
People Who Shaped the Century
Alexandria, VA : Time-Life, 1999

920.009 TIM
Time 100: Builders & Titans Great Minds of the Century
New York : Time Books, c1999

920.009 TIM
Time 100: Leaders & Revolutionaries: Artists & Entertainers
New York : Time Books, c1998

973 BRI
History of the United States
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1998

973.9 EVA
The American Century
New York : Knopf, 1998

973.9 Ree
Twentieth-Century America - A Brief History
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

973.91 HAK
War, Peace, and All That Jazz - A History of U.S.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

973.91 Kat
The New Freedom to the New Deal, 1913-1939 (Multicultural America)
Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1993

973.917 Leu
New Deal and War 1933-1945 (The Life History of the United States)
Time Life Books Inc. c1964

973.92 KAT
The Great Society to the Reagan Era 1964-1990 (Multicultural America)
Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1993

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