Web Sites

• The Costumer's Manifesto covers clothing of decades in US history as well as history around the world.
• Kingwood College Library's American Cultural History 1980-1989 gives a wide assortment of information relating to the 1980's.
• D Marie's Creative Scrapbooking Headquarters gives headlines, birthdays, top songs, TV shows, toys, books, and prices from history. Many more facts and figures are available as well.
• E Online's 1980s quiz is a tough one!
• Fashion Flashbacks: Exploring Retro Style covers 1900-1990s style by decade.
• The History Channel's This Day in History
• The History of Today On This Day
• Scope Systems allows you to search for events on any day in history or any year in history month by month.
• Top 40 Hits of 1930-1998 provides lyrics to songs that were on the charts in previous decades.
• Top One Hit Wonders of the Eighties

Books Covering :

More than One Decade

• American Costume 1840-1920
• American Costume 1915-1970
• American Heritage History of the United States
• American Women in Sport: 1887-1987, A 100 Year Chronology
• The Bicentennial Almanac : 200 Years of America 1776-1976 gives a list of major happenings for each year.
• Chronicle of America
• Chronicle of the Twentieth Century
• Chronicle of 20th Century Conflict
• Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord
• Dressed for the Occasion: What Americans Wore 1620-1970
• I Remember, Do You? (covering the '20s to the '50s)
• National Geographic Society 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery
• Popular Music, 1920-1979 has introductory essays for each decade through the 1970s.
• Readers Digest Our Glorious Century
• Twentieth Century Music
• Variety Music Cavalcade 1620-1950: A Chronology of Vocal and Instrumental Music Popular in the United States
• Variety Music Cavalcade 1620-1961: A Chronology of Vocal and Instrumental Music Popular int he Untied States
• What American Women Did, 1789-1920 Year By Year Reference

The 1920's

• American Decades 1920-1929
• The Lawless Decade
• The Roaring Twenties
• Our Times Volume VI

The 1930's

• American Decades 1930-1939

The 1940's

• Decade of Triumph: The 40's

The 1950's

• The 1950s
• The 1950s
• American Dream: The Fifties
• The Fifties
• Fifties Stylish American Cars: Decade of Dazzle
• Flashback! The Fifties
• More Songs of the Fifties
• New Look: Design in the Fifties
• New York in the Fifties
• Populuxe

 

The 1960's

The 1970's

• The 1970s From Watergate to Disco
• Time of Transition: The 70s

The 1980's

• American Decades 1980-1989
• Eyewitness to the 80's: A Moment in Time
• Pride and Prosperity: The 80s
• The Reagan Years

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Updated 3/4/05 by Lisa Matte