Links to Internet
Sites about the 1960s
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White House Tapes
Fascinating collection of presidential tapes (audio and video),
transcripts and other exhibits organized by the University of
Virginia. The Nixon tapes (3700 hours) and LB. tapes (800 hours)
are by far the largest in the collection, but are there are tapes
from the administrations of FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and JFK as
well. You might also look at Nixontapes.org
to listen to tapes or read transcripts. The two sites are
organized a little differently so it is worth exploring both to
find the materials you are looking for.
The Vietnam Project
Maintained at Texas Tech University, this site contains more than
1.5 million pages of materials including photographs, video
recordings and oral histories.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This site contains National Security Archive Documents held at
George Washington University. You will find recently declassified
documents, audio clips of White House intelligence briefings,
images, chronologies, analysis and more. The Avalon
Project
at the Yale law School includes valuable
primary sources concerning the Missile Crisis. Another useful site
is maintained by the Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs at Harvard
University. The site includes videos, an ITunes
U-Course and an interesting examination of the
"lessons" political leaders learned from the crisis.
Time Magazine
You might be interested in looking at how Time Magazine covered topics
in the 1960s. The collections include Civil Rights, Vietnam,
Watergate and more.
Voices of Civil
Rights
AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the Library
of Congress have collected 1000s of oral histories concerning the
Civil Rights Movement. This searchable site includes photographs,
interviews, essays a timeline, a music video and more. Also at the
Library of Congress is the Civil
Rights History Project. This site includes several
thoughtful essays and more than 50 interviews people who
participated in the struggles for civil rights. You might also
look at The
Voting Rights Act of 1965. This site provides an
interesting history of the Voting Rights Act and the amendments
that followed. You9 will also get an idea of what life was like
before the Act and how difficult it was to get it passed.
H-1960s
Subscribe to a discussion board that concerns itself with all
matters of history, politics, and culture of the 1960s. Reviews of
books, relevant films and websites are also included.
Free Speech Movement Digital
Archive
Berkley's Digital Archive documents the actions of those who
participated in the Free Speech Movement in 1964. The site
includes oral histories, bibliographies, and a chronology.
The Cold War Museum
This site provides online resources dealing with the Cold War
from around the world. There is an interactive time line organized
by decade. There are also spy stories, photographs, links to other
websites and personal histories
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