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The 1960s Ladies' Style Site __ Just what the page title says it is. - illustrated - From Unknown (Jennifer) - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4473/
American Cultural History - 1960-1969 __ You will find articles about fads,
culture demographics plus galleries and links to numerous resources about this
period in American history. - illustrated - From Kingwood College Library -
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective After 40 Years __ You
will find the chronology, declassified history and learn when the most dangerous
moment was. - From National Security Archive George Washington University -
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
The Digger Archives Home Page __ Learn about an influential Sixties group which
revolutionized life and culture in the S.F. Haight-Ashbury as well as other
parts of the US. - illustrated - From diggers.org -
http://www.diggers.org/
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive home __ "The Free Speech Movement (FSM)
Digital Archives document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the
Free Speech Movement (University of California, Berkeley, September-December
1964), as well as its origins in political protest and civil rights movements
and its legacy of political activism and educational reform that can be traced
throughout the country and the world down to the present." - From University of
California -
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/
Media History Timeline: 1960s __ This site lists the important events in the
various media such as publishing, newspapers, musical performance, etc. - From
University of Minnesota. -
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/1960s.html
Patio Culture __ "The place where you grew up if you grew up in the suburban
America of the 1960's... Everything that was fun revolved around life on the
patio. Fun and games. Friends and meat....red meat . Red meat and green salads.
The patio wasn't just the center of suburban family life, it was a state of
mind!" - From Greg Knight -
http://home.texoma.net/~kgreg/
Sixties __ You will find history, images, sounds, and feel of the '60s including the Summer of Love, music, political figures and events, issues, happenings, and more. - illustrated - From sixties.net - http://www.sixties.net/
The Sixties __ "Loud music and Silent Spring. Civil rights and civil defense,
fallout and sit-ins. ``Strangers in the Night'' and Dr. Strangelove. Free love
and costly lessons. Camelot and Cambodia. ``Blue Christmas'' and Agent Orange.
The Great Society and One Small Step. ``I Have a Dream'' but the dream becomes
nightmare: John Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, Martin Luther King and James Earl
Ray, Robert Kennedy and Sirhan Sirhan." Pretty much says it all. - From Oak
Ridge National Laboratories -
http://www.ornl.gov/info/swords/sixties.html
The Sixties Project __ Find primary documents, personal narratives, and book
reviews. - From University of Virginia -
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/
A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law __ A photographic exhibition which
examines themes from the 1960s counterculture. It was created to help "better
understand that era within its own cultural context." - illustrated - From
National Museum of American History -
http://americanhistory.si.edu/lisalaw/
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