WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1950-1959

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• REFERENCE
• General
  • A Biography of America: The Fifties
  • Postwar America, from An Outline of American History
  • Rewind the Fifties
  • Fifties (1950's) Web
  • The Age of Paranoia
  • American Cultural History - 1950-1959
  • How the Suburbs Changed America, from PBS
  • National Debt Outstanding, Annually, 1950-2000
  • National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
  • 1950s History Books, Amazon.com
• Timelines
  • 1950s Timeline from about.com
  • 1950s GENERAL HISTORY
  • Timeline 1951-1955
  • Tech History 1943-1953
  • Tech History 1954-1964

   

• CHRONOLOGICAL
  • 1950
    • The Presidency of Harry Truman [1945-1952]
      • Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
      • Harry S. Truman Museum
      • Truman Biography
      • The American President:  Harry S. Truman
      • Character Above All: Harry S. Truman Essay
    • Events of 1950, from Wikipedia
    • Best Film of the Year: All About Eve
    • Gwendolyn Brooks--First Black American Woman to Win Pulitzer Prize
    • McCarran Act or Internal Security Act of 1950
    • The Korean War
      • The Korean War
      • Opening Rounds of the Forgotten War, by Denis Warner
      • Time-Line of the Korean War for Free Download
        [From the U.S. Naval Institute]
      • Jet Age Warfare
      • WWW-VL: US Military History: Korean War
      • Dismissal of General MacArthur
        • Recall of General Douglas MacArthur
      • Retrospections
        • Conflict in Korea. Reluctant Dragons and Red Conspiracies
        • "The Korean War. A Fresh Perspective," By Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr.
        • Archives of korean-war-l@korean-war.com
        • Meteors versus MIGs
    • October Assassination Attempt on President Truman
      • Assassination Attempt on President Truman 13 October
      • Shoot-Out on Pennsylvania Avenue
    • Computers First Sold Commercially
  • 1951
    • Events of 1951, from Wikipedia
    • Best Film of the Year: An American in Paris
    • The 1951 Studebaker Champion
    • Transcontinental Television Network (first official broadcast September 1951)
    • Race for the Superbomb
    • The Atomic Duty of Bill Bires (Diary of Bill Bires while stationed in Nevada during Atomic Test Series) 
    • American Studies, et al., The House on Un-American Activities Committee's Hearings and the People It Affected
    • The Rosenberg Trial 1951
      • The Rosenberg Trial, from UMKC Famous Trials
      • Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
  • 1952
    • Events of 1952, from Wikipedia
    • Best Film of the Year: The Greatest Show on Earth
    • Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer [strengthened Congress vis-a-vis the Executive]
    • 1 November United States Detonates Hydrogen Bomb at Eniwetok
    • 4 November. Establishment of the National Security Agency
      [the charter of the Agency]
    • The Presidential Election of 1952
      • The Election of 1952
      • New York Times Looks Back: 1952 and 1956: Adlai Stevenson vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower
      • Biography of Adlai Stevenson, Democratic Candidate for President
      • The Republican's Get Their Man
      • The Election of 1952. David Leip's Atlas of American Presidential Elections
      • 30 Second Candidate: 1952
      • The Election of a Military Hero
      The Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower 1952-1961
      • Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) Center
      • Dwight D. Eisenhower Biography
      • International Relations. 1958-60, Volume X, Part 1, Eastern Europe Region; Soviet Union; Cyprus
      • Pres. Eisenhower on McCarthyism [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
      • Main Events of the Eisenhower Presidency, 1953-61
      • The American President: Dwight Eisenhower
      • Character Above All: Dwight D. Eisenhower Essay
      • The Eisenhower Yeats: 1953-1961
  • 1953
    • Events of 1953, from Wikipedia
    • Best Film of the Year :From Here to Eternity
    • Watson and Crick Describe Structure of DNA (from PBS People and Discoveries Series) and Crick and Watson's DNA Model
    • Signpost to Freedom: The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
  • 1954
    • Events of 1954, from Wikipedia
    • Best Film of the Year: On the Waterfront
    • The Trial of Sam Sheppard
    • 13 May. Authorization for Construction of the Saint Lawrence Seaway [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
    • Brown v. Topeka Board of Education et al. 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (Decision by U.S. Supreme Court which ended "Separate but Equal" rule)  
      • Alternate link with all footnotes Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, et al.
    • Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
    • Eisenhower and the Red Menace
    • The CIA and Assassinations. Documents Relating to Guatemala 1954
    • U.S. Tests Hydrogen Bomb at Bikini Atoll
    • U.S.S. Nautilus [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
    • U.S. Senate Mid-Term Elections--1954
    • U.S. House of Representatives Mid-Term Election--1954
  • 1955
    • Events of 1955, from Wikipedia
    • 12 April. Announcement of the Salk Vaccine for Poliomyelitus (Infantile Paralysis) [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
    • Signpost to Freedom: The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
    • The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Montgomery Bus Boycott
    • Scale Model of the 1955 Buick Century Convertible
    • Best Film of the Year: Marty
    • 1955 Ford Thunderbirds
      [were produced from 1955 to 1964]
    • "Gunsmoke" TV Western, 50th Anniversary 1955-2005
  • 1956
    • Events of 1956, from Wikipedia
    • Best Film of the Year: Around the World in Eighty Days
    • The Bank Holding Company Act of 1956
    • Creating the Interstate Highway System, by Richard F. Weingroff
    • Interstate Highway System [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
    • The Presidential Election of 1956
      • New York Times Looks Back: 1952 and 1956: Adlai Stevenson vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower
      • The Election of 1956
      • The Election of 1956 (Nominations and Election Results)
      • Election of 1956 (Wikapedia)
      • The Election of 1956. David Leip's Atlas of American Presidential Elections
      • Biography of Adalai Stevenson
      • The Adalai Stevenson Page
      • The 30 Second Candidate: 1956 #1 and #2
  • 1957
    • Events of 1957, from Wikipedia
    • July 1957-July 1958. International Geophysical Year - Scroll down to this section [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
    • Best Film of the Year: The Bridge on the River Kwai
    • U.S. Conducts Two H-Bomb Tests at Christmas Island
    • Sputnik--October 4, 1957
      • Sputnik's Change on America
      • Sputnik--Articles reprinted from the N.Y. Times
      • Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age (from NASA)
      • Sputnik and the Space Race (documents from the Eisenhower Library)
  • 1958
    • Events of 1958, from Wikipedia
    • Cooper v. Aaron [Supreme Court declares that it alone is the interpreter of the law]
    • Introduction of the Credit Card 1958
    • Sputnik and the Space Race - Scroll down to this section [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
    • New York Times on AOL: Sputnik 1958
    • Best Film of the Year: Gigi
    • U.S. Senate Mid-Term Elections--1958
    • U.S. House of Representatives Mid-Term Elections--1958
  • 1959
    • Events of 1959, from Wikipedia
    • Eisenhower "Predelegates" Control of Nuclear Arms in the Event of an Emergency
    • Eisenhower's "Predelegation." New Documents
    • Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
    • Scale Model of the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
    • Best Film of the Year: Ben Hur

     

• GEOGRAPHICAL

• TOPICAL
• American Culture and Society in the 1950's
  • American Cultural History 1950-1959
  • The Fifties Are Nifty
  • The Fifties Web
  • The 1950's: Beyond Happy Days by Beyondbooks.com
  • Pop Inventions of the Fifties
  • The Age of Paranoia
  • Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
  • LSD And The CIA
  • Art
    • Rebels Painters and Poets of the 1950s
  • Cinema and Films
    • Academy Awards® Winners and History (1950 - 1959)
    • Cinema of the Fifties
    • Top and Bottom Rated Films of the 1950s from IMDb (with film reviews)
    • Cinema History--The 1950s
    • Film History of the 1950s
  • Literature
    • The Literature and Culture of the American 1950's
    • The Beat Generation in the Heartland Beats In Kansas
    • Beat Literature Beat Generation authors and books; Open Directory Project
    • Beatnik T-Shirts Beats In Kansas
    • Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters, by Dr. Oliver Harris, Dept. of American Studies, Keele University, England
    • Crime Comics of the 1940's and 1950's
    • Rebels Painters and Poets of the 1950s
    • Gwendolyn Brooks--First Black American Woman to Win Pulitzer Prize, also Gwendolyn Brooks from Poetry.org
  • Media
    • Media History of the 1950s
    • Truth in Advertising--Cigarette Advertising in the 1950s
  • Music
    • A Tribute to Patsy Cline
    • The Official Community of Buddy Holly
    • Elvis Presley
    • Newport Jazz Festival 1954, 50th Anniversary from NPR
      • Duke Ellington, Newport Jazz Festival 1956, from BBC News
      • Bird and the Beats on Charlie Parker, by Ted Joans
      • Bill Evans Jazz piano, from WWOZ
      • John Coltrane Jazz saxophone
    • Jazz Vocalists of the 1950s
  • Television
    • TV Variety Shows of the 50's - Classic TV
    • Kukla, Fran and Ollie [early television puppet program]
    • Yesterdayland [Television and other Classics of the Past]
    • Playhouse 90 1956-1961
    • The American Experience: The Quiz Show Scandal
• Civil Rights 
  • Eyes on the Prize (PBS Documentary on the American Civil Rights Movemant)
  • Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Signpost to Freedom: The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Boycott: A Film of the Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956
• Industry, Business and Labor
  • Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
  • Scale Model of the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
• Politics
  • The Dixiecrats and Changing Southern Power
  • McCarthyism (1950-1954)
    • An Overview
      • The Age of McCarthyism. A Brief History with Documents, by Ellen Schrecker
      • Senator Joe McCarthy. The Fight for America
      • The Coils of the Cold War, lecture notes by Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
      • American Studies, et al., The House on Un-American Activities Committee's Hearings and the People It Affected
      • Le McCarthysme [French]
    • Joseph McCarthy
      • Joseph McCarthy. Information Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
      • The Real McCarthy Record. A Longtime Smear Campaign Has Clouded the Truth, by James J. Drummey [1987]
      • Senator Joe McCarthy. The Fight for America by Jesse Friedman
      • Pres. Eisenhower on McCarthyism [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
      • FBI Documents on Joseph McCarthy Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
    •  The Tools
      • The Alien Registration Act of 1940
      • The McCarran Act - The Internal Security Act of 1950
      • McCarran Act or Internal Security Act of 1950
      • The Federal Bureau of Investigation
      • The House UnAmerican Activities Committee
      • Informers, e.g.,
        • Burl Ives
        • Lee J. Cobb
      • Blacklists and Other Economic Sanctions
      • HUAC and Censorship Changes 1947
    • The Targets
      • Philip Morrison, Cornell Professor of Physics, before a Congressional Anticommunist Investigating Committee
      • The Ballad of John Henry Faulk, by Phil Ochs
      • The Hollywood Blacklist
        • Naming Names, by Victor Navasky (1980)
        • Hollywood and the Movies in the 1950's: A Short Bibliography of Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Libraries
        • Hollywood 10 Documents
        • Scenes from the HUAC Investigation of 1947
        • A Different Look at the Proceedings
        • "The Hollywood Ten" [brief biographies]
        • The Salt of the Earth - Blacklisted Film
        •  (FBI FOIA documents)
    • Consequences of the McCarthy Era
      • Senator Ralph E. Flanders and the Fall of McCarthy
      • The Politics of Scholarship: Liberals, Anti-Communism, and McCarthyism, by Athan Theoharis
      • Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
  • Adlai Stevenson
    • Adlai Stevenson: The Last of the Beautiful Losers
    • Adlai Stevenson Papers
• Science and Medicine
  • Atomic and Nuclear
    • History of Oak Ridge National Laboratory--The 1950s
    • Fusion Bomb
    •  
  • DNA
    • Watson and Crick Describe Structure of DNA (from PBS People and Discoveries Series) and Crick and Watson's DNA Model
    • Rosalind Franklin: Unsung Hero of the DNA Revolution
  • Medicine
    • Polio Vaccine
      • Jonas Salk, M.D.
      • People and Discoveries: Jonas Salk and Salk Produces Polio Vaccine (from PBS People and Discoveries Series)
        • Paralyzing Polio
      • Time 100: Jonas Salk
  • Technology
    • Transcontinental Television Network (first official broadcast September 1951)
    • Computers First Sold Commercially in 1950
• Sports
  • Minnie Monoso--first black baseball player for Chicago White Sox
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