1950's Unit

⬇ 1950's Materials ⬇

1950's Overview - history

1. Infobase 1950s page - links to lots of articles

a. from page above: Post-War Prelude (1945-1949)

b. from the page above: Fifties Overview Article

c. from the page above: The Cold War overview article

2. Websites:

a. CONELRAD website

b. Korean War - Khan Academy video

3. The Century: Americas Time

a. The Fifties: "Best Years"

b. The Fifties: "Happy Daze"

Women

1. a. "Cracks in the Mold" article by Sara Evans (see pdf)

b. video of Sara Evans in 1918 speaking on the Me, Too movement

(she starts at 7:01)

2. Emily Dickinson archive - images of poem in her hand

3. Welter's Cult of True Womanhood (see pdf)

4. chart for notes for "Cult" (see pdf)

5. Flappers of the Twenties Primary Sources (see pdf)

6. Not For Ourselves Alone - Ken Burns film on Suffrage (clips)

7. Emma Watson's "He for She" speech

8. The Feminine Mystique at 50, Gail Collins (see pdf)

9. The Taming of the Shrew (1981) youtube video 27 min

10. First Ladies (the wives of US Presidents) - a good C-SPAN website

Zora Neal Hurston

1. link to Library of Congress recordings of Hurston and Lomax

2. Audio of Their Eyes Were Watching God - chapter by chapter recording

3. Article on the story and song Stagger Lee

Suburbanism & Consumerism

1. Joshua Ruff - "For Sale: The American Dream" (see pdf)

2. Barbara Kelly #1 - "Little Boxes, Big Ideas" (see pdf)

3. Barbara Kelly #2 - "The Houses of Levittown in the Context of Postwar American Culture" (see pdf)

4. Catherine Reef - "Childhood in the United States" (see pdf)

5. Diggins - "The Pursuit of Happiness" (see pdf)

6. a. "Our Home Town" video

6. b. "Crisis in Levittown" video

1. Dr. Dan Dobson - obituary NYT 1995

2. article on Dobson from The Abilene Reporter-News

7. Middle class white values - Encyclopedia Brittanica - how to eat supper - video

8. Interesting, quick read on Levitown from CNN

Civil Rights

- Brown v. Board of Education Case:

2017 Artifacts:

1. On the Waterfront

- script here

2. Rebel Without A Cause