EVERYDAY LIFE, CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS
Fifties Boulevard - the material culture of the 1950's: cars, interiors, food, tv, comics, fashion, growing up. Good graphics for your assignment!
Fifties Web - music, tv, Burma-Shave slogans
Fads and Fashions
The Beats - Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs and more
Blue Neon Alley - a wealth of links to Kerouac/Beats information
Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams
Billy Graham biography
Rachel Carson
Greatest Films of the 1950s
Jazz Vocalists: the 1950s
The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
The Beat Begins: American Culture in the 1950s - student research papers on Billy Graham, I Love Lucy, TV quiz shows, the Beats, more
Alan Freed - the dj who coined the term "rock n roll"
History of Banned Music - the Fifties
Rebel Painters and Poets of the 1950s National Portrait Gallery exhibition
Drive-In Theater History - 1950s
The McDonald's Story
History of Broadcasting
Boomers International - 78 million baby boomers grew up in the 50s!
Major League Baseball - team histories for each major league team.
History of the World Series
Pro Football Hall of Fame - Decade by Decade
Pro Basketball history - statistics, links
History of the Stanley Cup
A brief history of golf
Mini golf / Goofy Golf
Boxing: Rocky Marciano / Legends and Lore from the Boxing Hall of Fame
Pro Wrestling Title Histories
US Olympic Committee Sports A to Z - brief histories, all years

PEOPLE, EVENTS, POLITICS - DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL
CNN Cold War Series
The Berlin Wall
The Suez Crisis
Recall of General Douglas Macarthur (1951)
Douglas MacArthur biography
The Korean War 1950-53 from American Military History
The Korean War - 1950 - present
The U-2 Spy Plane Incident
The U-2 Incident
Dwight D. Eisenhower - White House Presidential biography
Eisenhower Center - Main Events of the Eisenhower Presidency
Richard Nixon - White House Presidential biography
Nixon Foundation Biography of Richard Nixon
Joseph McCarthy
Senator Joe McCarthy: a multimedia celebration
Age of Paranoia
Alger Hiss
A Brief History of Alaska Statehood and On This Day NYT: Hawaii Statehood
The Rosenbergs
Taft Hartley Labor Act - Information Please Almanac
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Interactive Tour of the Civil Rights Museum No index or searching — page forward to the 1950s.
Civil Rights Struggles (1945-1955) / (1955-1965) / School integration in Little Rock
Southern Christian Leadership Conference - history

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
UNIVAC/ Computer
Transistors
How Transistors Work
Transistor Radios
The Hydrogen Bomb, 1950-1956
Atomic Archive Timeline of the 1950s
Fallout Shelters
Bikini Atoll
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954
History of Nuclear Power - script for a video
NASA
Automotive History
Timeline of Recording Technology History
Watson and Crick describe structure of DNA 1953
A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Jonas Salk / On the Edge: Paralyzing Polio
Jonas Salk, M.D. Developer of Polio Vaccine - BIOGRAPHY