20th Century U.S. History in the Yahoo! Directory

Internet Moving Images Archive [read review]
Extensive collection of digitized films that focus on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in 20th century America.
www.archive.org/details/movies
Academy of Achievement
Virtual museum brings you face to face with the extraordinary individuals who have shaped the twentieth century.
www.achievement.org
20th Century American Cultural History
Decade by decade web guide comprised of mini-essays and links to help users gain a better understanding of United States culture in a century teeming with change.
kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html
About.com: 20th Century History
Includes maps, people, photographs, and timelines. Covers such topics as civil rights, communism, major events, wars, and entertainment.
history1900s.about.com
The Basics of Business History: Top 100 Events at a Glance
List of U.S. business events that have shaped the 20th century, compiled by TheStreet.com.
www.thestreet.com/basics/countdown/747965.html
Time 100: 1900 vs. Now
Statistical comparisons of 1900 and the end of the century, both globally and for the United States.
www.time.com/time/time100/timewarp/timewarp.html
American Photography: A Century of Images
Companion site to the PBS series capturing the images of a century of change and the role the camera has played both in creating and documenting it.
www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography
Pluralism and Unity
Multimedia exploration of the concepts of pluralism and unity in early 20th-century American history.
www.expo98.msu.edu
Whatever Happened to Polio? [read review]
Examines the effects of polio epidemics in the U.S., the discovery of the polio vaccine, and polio today. From the National Museum of American History.
americanhistory.si.edu/polio
Picturing Modern America: 1880-1920 [read review]
Historical thinking exercises designed to encourage students to actively read, question, and discuss photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century.
www.edc.org/CCT/PMA
MKULTRA@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Central_Intelligence_Agency__CIA_/MKULTRA
1901 Pan-American Exposition@
dir.yahoo.com/.../World_s_Fairs_and_Expositions/1901_Pan_American_Exposition__Buffalo
Iroquois Theater Fire@
Find sites about the Iroquois Theater fire, the most deadly fire which occurred in Chicago on December 30, 1903. Sites offer background information, event details, list of victims, pictures, and news excerpts about one of the worst disasters in the history of Chicago, Illinois.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Iroquois_Theater_Fire
Tuskegee Syphilis Study@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Syphilis/Tuskegee_Study
Adoption History Project, The
Explores the history of child adoption in the United States by profiling people, organizations, topics, and studies that shaped adoption during the 20th century.
darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adoption
American Leaders Speak
Recordings from WWI and the 1920 Election, from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml
Looking Back on the American Century
Information about the exhibit held at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.
www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/20th.htm
Wayback: US History for Kids
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/kids/index.html
Children in Urban America Project
Features documents and images related to the history of children in Milwaukee from 1850 to the present. Also includes suggested student projects and reading lists.
academic.mu.edu/cuap
Social Welfare and Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic
Features essays on the impact and significance of the progressive journal of social interpretation, as well as articles from Survey Graphic.
newdeal.feri.org/sg/ack.htm