Library
Web Reference Sites
Pop Culture
American
Folk: People, folklore, and popular culture.
Pop History Now!: Brings you a different week in pop history from the 1940s
to the 1990s each weekday.
PopCult Magazine: “The Obsessive Journal of Quality Pop Culture”
Popular Culture:
Resources for Critical Analysis: Web site provides resources for the
critical analysis of popular culture in the United States, including the
impact of that culture beyond national borders.
1900s
American
Cultural History 1900-1909
The Authentic History Center: Early 1900s: Features primary resources including
audio, images, and more.
Brief Timeline of American Literature, Music and Movies 1900-1909
1910s
American
Cultural History 1910-1919
The
Authentic History Center: World War I: Features primary
resources including audio, images, and more.
Brief Timeline of American Literature, Music and Movies 1910-1919
1920s
American
Cultural History 1920-1929
The Authentic History Center: The 1920s: Features primary resources including
audio, images, and more.
Brief
Timeline of American Literature, Music and Movies 1920-1929
Greatest Films of the 1920s
1920s.net: Comprehensive resource on the world as it was in the 1920s.
The Roaring 20s: Art and culture of the era.
Texas Guinan's Culture Club: The 1920s fashion, literature, scandals, and
more.
1930s
America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Images
from the Library of Congress.
America in the 1930s: From the American Studies Department of the University
of Virginia.
The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl: From PBS.
American Cultural History 1930-1939
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project,
1936-1940.
The Authentic History Center: The Great Depression: Features primary resources
including audio, images, and more.
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA; a Library of Congress
American Memory site.
The Depression News: The 1930s: Online exhibit from the Michigan Historical
Museum.
The Great Depression: From About.com
Greatest Films of the 1930s
W.P.A. New Deal Art During the Great Depression
1940s
America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Images
from the Library of Congress.
American Cultural History 1940-1949
The Authentic History
Center: World War II: Features primary resources including audio, images,
and more.
Greatest Films of the 1940s
Kilroy
Was Here: The 1940s Revisited: Online Exhibit from the Ohio Historical
Center.
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz: Photos by William P. Gottlieb taken
from 1938-1948, from the Library of Congress.
World War II Songs: From the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, Syracuse
University
1950s
American
Cultural History 1950-1959
The Authentic History Center: The 1950s: Features primary resources including
audio, images, and more.
Fifties Boulevard: A Graphic
Portrait of the Fifties in America
Fifties Web: Web site devoted to
the 1950s.
Greatest Films of the 1950s
The Literature
and Culture of the American 1950s
Rewind the 50s: Cars, idols, pictures and more.
1960s
American
Cultural History 1960-1969
The
Authentic History Center: The 1960s: Features primary
resources including audio, images, and more.
Greatest Films of the 1960s
Sixties British Pop Culture
1960s Flashback: Movies, music, TV, sports and more of the 60s.
The Psychedelic 60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change: From the Special
Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library.
Sixties Net
The Sixties Project: The Sixties Project is designed not only to be useful
to scholars and students, but to provide a place where those who lived through
the Sixties can tell their own stories about the era.
1970s
American
Cultural History 1970-1979
The Authentic History Center: The 1970s: Features primary resources including
audio, images, and more.
Greatest Films of the 1970s
1970s Flashback: Includes music, movies, TV, memorabilia, and news from
the 1970s.
Pop Void: On pop culture phenomena
of the seventies: Polyester Shirts, Kraft Dinners, The Brady Bunch and Blaxpoitation.
Stuck in the '70s: All things 1970s.
1980s
American
Cultural History 1980-1989
The Authentic History Center: The 1980s: Features primary resources including
audio, images, and more.
Brian's World: Fun and information for the 80s.
The Eighties Club: Politics and pop culture in the 1980s.
The 80s Server: Serving up games, information and conversation to take you
back to the most rad decade ever - the '80s - like, fer shur!
Greatest Films of the 1980s
Like omigod, it's the 80s!: Offers a news page, gossip column, polls, quizzes, message board, and featured
artists.
1980s Flashback: Includes music, movies, TV, memorabilia, and news from
the 1980s.
1980s Tribute Gallery: Large collection of images of the 1980s.
1990s
American
Cultural History 1990-1999
The
Authentic History Center: The 1990s: Features primary
resources including audio, images, and more.
Greatest Films of the 1990s
1990s Flashback: Includes music, movies, TV, memorabilia, and news from
the
1990s.
CineMedia: The Internet's Largest Film and Media Directory
The Greatest Films: Excellent comprehensive site concentrating on classic
Hollywood films.
How Are Hollywood Films Made?: This site explores the step-by-step process
of film making.
Internet Movie Database: Comprehensive
information about more than 170,000 movies, including character names, ratings,
plot summaries, running times, and crew information. Also available are famous
film quotes and gaffes, an index of more than 11,000 online movie reviews,
and a guide to U.S. and international film festivals.
Internet Moving Images Archive:
Movies: This collection contains movies that the Prelinger
Archives has digitized (about 956 now online) and donated to the Internet
Archive. The films focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and
institutions in North America in the 20th century.
Metacritic: Film: Hundreds of film reviews.
Movie Review Query Engine: Over 25,000 movies reviews are available at this
comprehensive site.
The Movie Times: Box-office-receipt information, charts of top-grossing
actresses and actors, top-grossing films of all time, weekly box-office info,
etc.
Movies.com: Reviews, trailers, showtimes,
and more.
Moving Image Archive: Large electronic repository of online movies and moving images.
The Palace: Classic
Films: Articles and links to sites devoted to films from the 1920s through
the 1950s.
Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers: Databases of film archives
around the world, compiled by the Library of Congress.
ScreenSite: ScreenSite stresses the teaching and research of film and television
and is designed for educators and students.
Screen Source: Huge compilation
of film and TV related stats.
SPLICEDwire: Film reviews, news and interviews.
All Music Guide: Guide to styles of popular music including rock, country,
rap, and more.
Billboard Online: Search for artists, get this weeks' Hot 100, find out
what songs charted in past years, and more.
Hip Hop
Dictionary
The History of Rock and Roll
Lyrics World: Lyrics to all the Top 40 songs from 1930-1999.
The Rap Dictionary
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40
Rock and Roll
at 50: A History in Pictures: This site by Life Books presents 'Rock
and Roll at 50: A History in Pictures.' Features include an introduction
by Dick Clark, a photo gallery and a listing of the 'Top 100 rock and rockers
of all time.'
Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum
CineMedia: The Internet's Largest Film and Media Directory
The Classic TV Database: Shows, characters and more from the 1950s through
the 1990s.“I
Saw It On TV”: Guide to Broadcast and Cable Programming Sources
Museum of Television and Radio
ScreenSite: ScreenSite stresses the teaching and research of film and television
and is designed for educators and students.
Screen Source: Huge compilation of film and TV related stats.
TVparty: Extensive information, stories
and multimedia from TV days past.
Internet Broadway
Database: The official database for Broadway theater
information from the beginning until the present.
The WWW Virtual Library of Theatre and Drama: Worldwide links to theater
resources.
Bad Fads Museum: Dedicated to the truly awful fads of the last century.
Life Magazine Cover Collection: Search all the Life Magazine covers from
1936 to 1972, the years Life was a weekly magazine.
Origins of American Animation: The development of early American animation
is represented by this collection from the Library of Congress of 21 animated
films and two fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921.
