Dear Ms. Sarles,
About.com has some good sites on the decades in U.S. history. The URL is :
http://history1900s.about.com/od/decadebydecade/Decade_By_Decade.htm
Another site, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/fire.html ,
features political cartoons relevant to the 1950s. and McCarthyism.
If you go to Infotopia (http://www.infotopia.info) and search for the term
`1950s', the top hit will be this one :
The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Michael Bell
Former Chair, Texas Association of School Librarians
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Retired school and university librarian
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> Our 10th grade class is reading Twelve Angry Men and will be doing
> research on the 1950s.
>
> I am familiar with Gale's print reference of the American Decades but we
> don't have it.
>
> Anybody know of websites that cover the decades or at least the 1950s?
>
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