20th Century

Additional Reading Assignments

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Decade 1 -
 
Read the following -
 
 
Plessy vs. Ferguson -
Articles from Academic Search Premier - Luther L. Gobbel Library
 
 
Einstein - Theory of Relativity -

Longstaff, Ben.  “Einstein for Tourists.”  New Scientist 191.2562 (July 29, 2006): 42-45.

 
Henry Ford -

Wicks, Frank.  “The Remarkable Henry Ford.”  Mechanical Engineering 125.5 (May 2003): 50+.

 

Decade 2 -


Twight, Charlotte.  “Evolution of Federal Income Tax Withholding: The Machinery of Institutional Change.”  CATO Journal 14.3 (Winter 1995): 359+.

Haley’s Comet - http://library.thinkquest.org/28743/comets/index.html#

 

African American Studies Librarians Section - http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/black-history-topical.html - View site as we work through the various decades

 

League of Women Voters – http://www.lwv.org - Look at photographs

 
nTitanic - http://www.britannica.com/titanic/01_01.html
 
History of Cracker Jacks -
 
 
Decade 3 -

Website - Not for Ourselves Alone - www.pbs.org/stantonanthony

Click on "Enter the Women's Movement" and scroll through the 20 clips.

Look at Consitution of the United States and amendments 13-19.  You can download these items at http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/charters_downloads.html

Stanford Prison Experiment - http://www.prisonexp.org/

 

Scopes Monkey Trial - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm


Decade 5

Einstein's letters to President Roosevelt-

 http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml


Einstein made easy -

http://www.er.doe.gov/News_Information/News_Room/2005/Year_of_Physics/EINSTEIN%20MADE%20EASYRev.pdf

 More on Einstein -

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/



Letter from Birmingham Jail

20th Century