[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this lesson plan to explore the roles of women in the 1950s. After working men's jobs during World War II, women went back into the home when the men returned. Examine how well this worked out.

This quiz will test your knowledge of the Cold War and the 1950s.

It's the 21st century, but sometimes it feels like our futuristic dreams are stuck in the 1950s and 60s. And there's actually a good reason for that. The period between 1958 and 1963 might be described as a Golden Age of American...

Explore women's fashions in the 1950s. Note: Some external links may not work.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this passage provides information about economic wealth of Americans living during the 1950's. Paired texts are...

This tutorial looks at eight famous cases that were heard in the Supreme Court in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. It examines each case, the results, and the ramifications of each decision. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.

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.

A fact sheet giving information about the American black duck and efforts to restore the population to its 1950s levels.

This encyclopedia entry surveys the Beat movement in American literature and culture during the 1950s and early 1960s, which was personified by such writers as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.

In the 1950s, as part of a campaign to expose suspected Communists, thousands of individuals were aggressively investigated and questioned before government panels. Named after its most notorious practitioner, the phenomenon known as...

This resource presents James Farmer (1920-1999), a major figure in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and the distinction he draws between integration and desegregation, two terms often used interchangeably and often confused.

This is a hands-on, technology-based U.S. Government instructional activity in which students will view a series of political television advertisements from the 1950s-2000. Students vote on which presidential candidate has the best...

This set focuses on the Space Race during the mid-1950s and 1960s and examines the impact of the Space Race today. Includes a teacher's guide.

As part of a larger site about Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism, this page relates his ultimate downfall brought about by his bullying style and false accusations.

This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Assistant by Bernard Malamud including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

From its introduction to society, the offshoot of roller skating has had kids across the map sidewalk surfing since the mid 1950s. Learn about the history of skateboarding.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features the Orioles, an American vocal group of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Discusses the first successful kidney transplant performed in 1954.

A brief biography of Nicola Sacco's life before his fateful arrest, perhaps wrongly, for murder in 1920.

A brief description of the hunt for spies within the United States prior to McCarthyism.