American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 30: The Affluent Society

Web Links

An Interactive History of the Wienermobile

http://www.reedberry.com/wienermobile.html
Photographs trace the evolution of the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile from 1936 to the present.

Eisenhower Center

http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/abilene/ikectr.html

Biography and links to archives.

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
Documents from the 1950s, with particular emphasis on McCarthyism.

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

http://www.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html
Photographs of the quintessential postwar suburb.

Urban Renewal and the Changing Face of Lancaster

http://www.fandm.edu/Departments/AmericanStudies/faculty/schuyler/urbanrenewal/exhibittitle.html

Exhibit displaying the process of postwar housing development in Lancaster, PA.

NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/history.html
Hundreds of photographs, and bare-bones descriptions of each mission. More expressive descriptions of Apollo 11 and 13.

The Avalon Project: 20th Century Documents

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htm

"Diplomatic documents, with emphases on World War II, the Cold War, and Palestine."

CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/
Documents relating to the CIA's support of the 1954 coup against President Arbenz.

Hot for the Road

http://www.life.com/Life/cars/covers/covers96.html
Life magazine photos of classic cars, most from the postwar period.

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