The Age of Irony: Twentieth Century America

Description and Faculty
Books
Class constitution

Writing assignments
Annotated Bibliography
Class Moodle (students only)

Evergreen Library Catalog
Research Links
Evergreen Home

 

General U.S History sites

William Cronon's "Learning Historical Research" site
http://www.williamcronon.net/researching/index.htm

Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov

UW General Historical research guides
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/guide.html

University of Kansas United States History Reference
http://www.vlib.us/history/reference.html

Social History

International Institute for Social History
http://www.iisg.nl/

Pacific Northwest History

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/

HistoryLink
http://www.historylink.org/

Washington State History Day -- Excellent Resource Center -- Secretary of State
http://washingtonhistoryday.wetpaint.com/

Writing Sites

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/

Evergreen's Writing Center
http://www.evergreen.edu/writingcenter/home.htm




World War Sites

World War II History Site by UW library
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/war.html
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/europe.html#wwi

Mount Holyoke World War I site
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww1.htm

Great War BBC-PBS site
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

British National Archives WWI site
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: WWII
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

 

Images and propaganda

University of Minnesota War posters
http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html

Micah Wright's Propaganda Remix Project
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html

The American Historical Association's GI Roundtable Pamphlets
http://www.historians.org/projects/GIRoundtable/index.html

Racism, Race and Civil Rights

Race -- Are We So Different? A Project of the American Anthropological Association
http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html


" Military-Industrial Complex"


Eisenhower's speech (text)
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

Eisenhower's speech (sound)
http://www.history.com/audio/eisenhowers-farewell-address#eisenhowers-farewell-address


Milton Eisenhower alleged to have coined the term, "MI complex"
http://www.jhuapl.edu/rc/

Vietnam

"Another Vietnam" -- photos from the book and exhibition
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0128_020129vietnambook.html

 

TESC Evening & Weekend Studies Fall/Winter/Spring 2010-2011