Sydney Schatz's List: JaBrown Decades Project

The 1930s timeline provides a multimedia list of the decade's events-some well-known and others more obscure. Each year in the timeline is divided by months and also by four color-coded categories: Politics and Society; Science and Technology; Arts and Culture; and World Events.

Find out more about the golden age of radio.

"Top names of the 1930s
The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during 1930 - 1939. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name. The 200 most popular names were taken from a universe that includes 10,847,407 male births and 11,043,734 female births."

Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists’ memorabilia.
Users can explore this virtual space and find information by clicking on people and objects. Visitors can gather artworks and place them in their bin for later documentary production.
The theater’s feature presentation is a series of interviews produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Artists Describe the 1930s. Additionally, user-created documentaries can be viewed from the theater’s balcony. Go to the theater’s projection booth to find PrimaryAccess and a movie-making tutorial.

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration, Interactive Learning
Brief Description:  Fairly comprehensive set of links to popular culture and US history decades sites.  

An Internet Hotlist of LINKS on American Decades

History
We set out to create a site where a trip through time over the last 85 years from the 20's to today was both interesting and informative, and as the site has continued to evolve over the last two years we have tried to include cost of living, Prices, Events, Popular Social Culture, Inventions and changes to Technology. Harnessing the power of multi media in the form of videos found on YouTube to bring the last 85 years to life.


"If a picture is worth a thousand words then a modern history site providing 900 links to videos related to events and popular culture from the 20's, 30's, 40's through to the 90's must be worth millions of words".
The site is split into decades and with each year with a dedicated page, there are also sections for Motoring, Homes, Computers, Clothes and Fashion and Music .

This section seeks to provide a general overview of the history of colonial and United States engagement with the world since 1750 through short essays on important moments, or milestones, in U.S. diplomatic history.
Brief introductions to each of these 18 time periods provide some historical context for the information contained in the essays on specific historical events between 1750 and the present.

also has Decade by Decade

Was prepared by college and graduate students and last updated 2007.
Good place to begin research.

Search the Web to learn the stories behind the stamps issued by the United States Postal Service commemorating the people, places, events, and trends of the 1930s. Explore Web sites related to the Empire State Building, Superman, the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Monopoly board game, and more!

"Search the Web to learn more about the stories behind the stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service commemorating the people, places, events, and trends of the 1960s. Explore Web sites related to Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech as well as the introduction of
the Ford Mustang and Roger Maris's 61st home run! Included:
An Internet scavenger hunt for students!"

"Search the Web to learn more about the stories behind the stamps issued by
the U.S. Postal Service commemorating the people, places, events, and trends of the 1950s. Explore Web sites related to the polio vaccine, rock and roll, Brown v. the Board of Education, and I Love Lucy! Included: An Internet scavenger hunt for students!"

Several short videos centered around Franklin D. Roosevelt