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Pdn and Kodak Professional: Richard Avedon: The Sixties

For Students 9th - 10th
View excerpts from Avedon's book "The Sixties," a book of portraits of influential persons and celebrities who typify sixties culture.
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PBS

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion Web site to the PBS series. Provides an overview of the pivotal events, culture, and politics of the Sixties. Links to lesson plans and related material for a more in-depth study.
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The Sixties: Students for a Democratic Society (Sds)

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion site to PBS series on the Sixties. Highlights content on politics and the newsmakers of the era. Students will learn about protest group, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and its offshoot, Weathermen and link to related...
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Pbs: The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

For Students 9th - 10th
Online companion to a PBS documentary that tells the story of America during the 1960s includes a timeline of newsworthy events from the decade and a series of thematic vignettes that addresses the war in Vietnam, sixties pop culture,...
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Radford University: Environmental History Timeline: Sixties 1960 69

For Students 9th - 10th
Features an environmental history timeline for the 1960s highlighting legislation and key events. Created by Professor William (Bill) Kovarik, Ph.D. from Radford University.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Last Sixty Minutes" by Susan Glaspell

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Last Sixty Minutes" by American author Susan Glaspell. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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The Sixties: Pop Culture: The Way We Were

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource on pop culture of the 1960s. Part of a companion piece from PBS offers students an overview of the music, books, people, and events that helped shape the popular culture of the era. long with links to other multi-media sources.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Sixties 1954 1974

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive feature lets you decide if the feminist movement of the 1960s improved American women's lives. Covers the areas of politics, business, professions, family, and independence. See how your vote compares with others that have...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 3: Fifties/sixties Musical Playwriting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit appeals to multiple intelligences, encourages interdisciplinary learning, reinforces self-confidence, and stimulates creativity, co-operation and critical thinking. Using songs with a strong narrative, students are asked to...
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BBC

Bbc: Art Sixties Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
See images of famous and unknown faces from the 1960s. All black and white images by various photographers.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: American History and Film: Time Magazine the Generation Gap

For Students 9th - 10th
These excerpts appeared in "Time Magazine" between 1967 and 1968 and reveal the country's frustration with the growing influence of the sixties counterculture.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Wilson Pickett

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting biographical details on Sixties soul musician, Wilson Pickett, a 1991 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Includes a timeline of key events and essential songs list.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Dusty Springfield

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides informative biographical details on Sixties pop recording diva, Dusty Springfield, a 1999 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Includes a timeline of key events, recommended reading, and essential songs list.
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The Sixties: House Un American Activities Committee

For Students 9th - 10th
The House Un-American Activities Committee gained noteriety in the 1950s with Joseph McCarthy and his witch hunts. The committee was still in existence in the early 1960s. Read this brief article to see what it was investigating then.
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania: Betty Friedan's Secret Communist Past

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a review of Daniel Horowitz's biography of the sixties women's rights activist, Betty Friedan. Published in Salon January 18, 1999.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Oliphant's Anthem

For Students 9th - 10th
A Library of Congress online exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, Pat Oliphant. View over sixty cartoons and see why he is known as one of the most influential editorial cartoonists in America.
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Free Speech Movement Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a nearly exhaustive list of web resources on the subject of the Free Speech Movement of the sixties and seventies.
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Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.: Stan T. Rex

For Students 9th - 10th
Stan T. Rex is the name given to a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that was excavated and reconstructed by the Black Hills Institute. Stan is sixty-five percent bone and among the most complete T. Rex skeletons in the world that scientists...
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Cape Breton Miners' Museum: Mine Explosion in New Waterford, 1917 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixty-five men and boys died in the 1917 mining disaster at New Waterford in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. This collection of first-hand accounts has several interviews, news articles and documentation from the subsequent inquest. Reading...
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PBS

Pbs: India and Pakistan: 60 Years of Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixty years after becoming independent of British colonial rule, India and Pakistan are forging their own destinies, while they continue to have sporadic clashes over Kashmir. There are several news reports from August 2007 here, as well...
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United Nations

United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Schools Demining Schools

For Students 9th - 10th
Landmines kills thousands every year in countries around the world. Some of the topics on this site include the history of landmines, the threat they present in over sixty countries worldwide, the damage they do,risk reduction education,...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
The Smithsonian presents a collection of sixty pieces of art from the Gilded Age period in America. Works are included by such artists as Sargent, Thayer, Bannister, Beaux, and others.
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City of Miami Beach: History of Miami Beach and South Florida

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of Miami Beach on the city's official website. A link at the end of the text, Historical Photographs, takes you to a collection of one hundred sixty-nine photos, going back to the late 1880s, that can be viewed as a...
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Gabriel Dumont Institute

Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: Metis Family Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Article looks at Metis family life from fur trade days on. Includes discussion questions and a bibliography. The document is sixty-six pages.

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