1940's HISTORY RESOURCES

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SEE ALSO ONLINE RESOURCES.

 Search GALENET's History Resource Center -U.S. for AMERICAN DECADES article. Search 1940s and specific topic. (e.g., 1940s CIVIL RIGHTS, 1940s fashion, 1940s music, 1940s fads,...)

 You can also search GALENET's Student Resource Center Gold, Biography Resource Center, & Literature Resource Center.   Search FACTS ON FILE Landmark Documents in American History, American Historical Images. Search ABC-CLIO's American Government and ABC-CLIO's World History: Modern Era.

NOTE: WE HAVE AN EBOOK AVAILABLE. GO TO ONLINE RESOURCES. ENTER YOUR CHCLC USER NAME AND PASSWORD. SELECT GALE. SCROLL TO GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY. SELECT HISTORY--.Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America. Sara Pendergast and Tom  Pendergast, Eds.  Detroit: U*X*L, 2002.  1330 pp. 5 vols. 

AVIATION RESOURCES

                AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AVIATION: THE 1940s-- A DECADE OF CHANGE: PRACTICING HISTORY WITH PRIMARY SOURCES  (SMITHSONIAN)
                HISTORY OF FLIGHT 1940s

CIVIL RIGHTS RESOURCES (includes links to race relations in the 1940s, Civil Rights History, Jim Crow Laws, Ku Klux Klan, & Lynching)

DISCRIMINATION IN THE 1940s RESOURCES (SEE ALSO CIVIL RIGHTS RESOURCES for Race Relations in the 1940s.  SEE ALSO JAPANESE INTERNMENT RESOURCES for discrimination against the Japanese after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. SEE ALSO WHITE PRIVILEGE & RACISM RESOURCES for Discrimination Resources for Today. SEARCH DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN, RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION, ECONOMIC DISCRIMINATION.)

                AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: WORLD WAR II (ENCARTA)
                AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1940s
                CIVIL RIGHTS IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY (SCROLL DOWN TO CIVIL RIGHTS FROM THE 1920s TO WORLD WAR II)
                CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES TO THE WAR EFFORT
                DISCRIMINATION (ENCARTA: ECONOMIC, RACIAL AND ETHNIC, AGAINST WOMEN, AGAINST OTHER GROUPS, CONSTITUTIONAL RULES, OUTSIDE OF U.S.)
                LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: POSITION ON EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE 1940s AND 1950s (LWV OF IOWA)
                LOST VISIONS OF EQUALITY: THE LABOR ORIGINS OF THE NEXT WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
                PHOTOGRAPHS OF SIGNS ENFORCING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)
                RACISM IN THE 1940s
                REVERSE DISCRIMINATION

ENTERTAINMENT RESOURCES (SEE ALSO MUSIC RESOURCES, TELEVISION RESOURCES, & HISTORY 1940s RESOURCES.)

                WEB GENERATION (SCROLL DOWN FOR TV AND MOVIES.)

FASHION RESOURCES

                COSTUME SOCIETY OF AMERICA: 20TH CENTURY 1940S-1960s
                HISTORY OF FASHION 1940-1949

FILM RESOURCES

                ACADEMY AWARDS WINNERS AND HISTORY
                DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA  WINNERS 1940s
                TIMELINE OF INFLUENTIAL MILESTONES AND IMPORTANT TURNING POINTS IN FILM HISTORY 1940s

HISTORY 1940s RESOURCES

                AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY: 1940-1949 (KINGSWOOD COLLEGE LIBRARY)
                AMERICAN MEMORY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS FOR THE NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY
                AMERICAN PASSAGES: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (HARCOURT)
                AMERICAN TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
                EVENTS AND ISSUES: 1900-1940
                HISTORY OF THE WORLD TIMELINE: 1940s
                INFOPLEASE: 1940 (ADVANCE TO 1941, 42, ETC. BY CLICKING ON NEXT YEAR.)
                THE 1940s: A DECADE OF CHANGE
                1940-1949 DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURY (CHICO HIGH SCHOOL)
                THE 1940s: THE DECADE OF WAR
                20TH CENTURY AMERICA: A PICTORIAL (SCAN THROUGH PHOTOS WITH CAPTIONS THAT SUMMARIZE KEY EVENTS OF THE 1940S.)
                20TH CENTURY TIMELINE 
                WOMEN OF THE CENTURY: 1940s
                WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1940-1949 LINKS

LABOR RESOURCES

                THE NAACP AND LABOR, 1940-1945
                ORGANIZING UNIONS IN THE 1930s AND 1940s

MUSIC RESOURCES  (SEE ALSO ENTERTAINMENT RESOURCES & HISTORY 1940s RESOURCES.)

                 WEB GENERATION (SCROLL DOWN FOR MUSIC.)

PRIMARY SOURCES OF THE EIGHTIES RESOURCES

                THE AUTHENTIC HISTORY CENTER: PRIMARY SOURCES FROM AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE

RURAL LIFE IN THE 1940s

SPORTS BIOGRAPHIES (SEE ALSO ONLINE RESOURCES, GALENET'S BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER FOR MORE DEPTH.)

                JACKIE ROBINSON (BASEBALL)
                JOE DIMAGGIO (BASEBALL)
                JOE LOUIS (BOXING)
                LEROY ROBERT "SATCHEL" PAIGE (BASEBALL)
                SAMMY BAUGH (FOOTBALL)
                STEVE VAN BUREN (FOOTBALL)
                SUGAR RAY ROBINSON (BOXING)
                TED WILLIAMS (BASEBALL)

SPORTS RESOURCES (SEE ALSO HISTORY 1940s RESOURCES.)

                SPORTS IN THE 1940s

TELEVISION RESOURCES (SEE ALSO ENTERTAINMENT RESOURCES & HISTORY 1940s RESOURCES.)

                RURAL LIFE IN AMERICA: TV TURNS ON  
                WEB GENERATION (SCROLL DOWN FOR TV AND MOVIES.)

WORLD WAR II RESOURCES

 

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