Resources for Students
Overview Video: This video gives a good overview and introduction to postwar America.
Digital History: This website provides primary source documents, textbook pages, film, events, people, and more on the postwar America.
Digital History: This website provides primary source documents, textbook pages, film, events, people, and more on the postwar America.
Women Postwar: A great website with video, text, and other materials for gender perspective in postwar America.
Harry S. Truman: A wealth of resources on president Truman including primary source documents, film, and overviews of topics during his presidency.
Harry S. Truman: A wealth of resources on president Truman including primary source documents, film, and overviews of topics during his presidency.
Compare/Contrast: An interesting take on how the nuclear family has changed since the 1950s.
Television in the 1950s: An essay on the emergence and prominence of television in the 1950s.
Bracero Program: Learn about how Latinos, particularly Mexicans, labored in the fields of the Southwestern U.S. during the 1950s and 60s and the kind of treatment they endured.
Television in the 1950s: An essay on the emergence and prominence of television in the 1950s.
Bracero Program: Learn about how Latinos, particularly Mexicans, labored in the fields of the Southwestern U.S. during the 1950s and 60s and the kind of treatment they endured.
A great lecture on postwar America by Palomar Community College professor Melinda Klein
A funny but interesting video on the rise of consumerism created by high school students!
A 5 part series on the history of Rock 'n' Roll and the role African American music played in its creation.