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National ArchivesAustralia - Canada - India - Japan - New Zealand - South AfricaUnited Kingdom - Scotland - United States World History, General HistoryHyperHistory presents color-coded timelines for people, periods,and events over the past 3,000 years, with some clickable items leading to further information, maps, and other links. There are additional special topic timelines also.The History Place is an online history museum of American and world history. Exhibits topics include the American Revolution and Civil War, World War II (including much on Nazi Germany), the Vietnam War, Apollo 11, and more. The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Archive includes "The Wayback Machine", which allows you to surf cached web pages the way they were in the past, back to 1996. Note: If you want to surf past pages of quickfound.net (and some other sites), you may have to turn javascript off in your browser to avoid a frameset script that forces the current page to load. The History Channel website has history TV listings, online video clips, discussion forums, a archive of speeches, a world history timeline, history maps, and an online store where you can purchase DVDs of History Channel progams, and other items. History News Network The World Wide Web Virtual Library: History is a links list. American HistoryLibrary of Congress CollectionsLibrary of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog The Making of America digital library at the University of Michigan has digital page images and text files of over 9,600 books, mostly from the 1800's, all free online. Making of America includes "primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology." Example: The Minnesota Handbook for 1856-7 The History Calendar is a searchable, up to date list of current American history-related events, such as museum exhibits, air shows, historical society events, and tourist attractions. You can submit your own events to the list. The Columbus Navigation Homepage Intro to Colubus' 1st Voyage Journal 1st Voyage Log of Columbus Thacher 1903 translation Archiving Early America important documents from 18th century America. European Mythology and HistoryEncyclopedia Mythica is an excellent guide to mythology of all kinds.The Perseus Project is "...a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world". Eurodocs presents Western European primary historical documents, archived at Brigham Young U. The Avalon Project at Yale Law School is a compilation of important documents in law, history and diplomacy. The Victorian Web covers "literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria" who was born in 1819, inherited the throne of Great Britain upon the death of her uncle William IV in 1837, and reigned until 1901. This extensive site also has info about Victorian architecture, politics, society, science, technology, religion, visual arts, and more. Topical HistoryAlex Chirnside's Military History is an extensive site that highlights 20 major events in military history, with more being added.Carbons to Computers is a brief, general, illustrated history of offices in America, from the Smithsonian Institute. At Eliason Snowmobile you can see many photos and drawings of the first snowmobiles, and trace their evolution over 31 years. "Modern snowmobiles are directly traceable to the original hand built 1924 Carl Eliason machine". The American Brewery History Page has a beer history library, an extensive photo gallery, a message board, and beer history links. Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate "open" content free online encyclopedia, which includes many history articles. The text link goes to their History Portal; you can search for articles with this form: |
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TIME Magazine, March 31, 1947, p. 25: MANNERS & MORALS: Reeny Season Neither war, rationing, nor the advent of the atomic age had altered U.S. teen-agers' preoccupation with malted milk, two-hour telephone calls and jukebox music. All had kept right on jiggling. But with draft boards apparently locked up for good, and the bubble-gum market bullish, teen-agers were now devoting more time to the complicated business of acting their age. Certain postwar changes in tribal custom, language, taboos, wooing, peculiarities of dress and methods of transport were evident. A considerable portion of the prewar fleet of ancient jalopies was still on its wheels and able to backfire. But the flivver and all its appurtenances was growing unfashionable-- the fox tail, which once flew from every steaming radiator, was now as old-hat as the coonskin cap. The really de luxe vehicles of 1947 were jeeps and two-wheeled, gasoline-powered scooters. Hundred-mile-an-hour hot rods were still in style in California and some other states, although the law and construction costs were closing in on them. In Atlanta, two teen-agers who possessed juiced-up cars had developed a process known as "scratching." The started the car in reverse, whipped backwards in a tight semicircle, then slammed the gears into low and roared off with a squeal of tires and a shower of dust. "Wi Ya Hus?" New jargon was springing up everywhere. In San Francisco the word "boodles" was used both as a noun and a verb-- and could mean anything under the sun. In Charleston, S.C., where dyeing the forelock was all the rage, kids greeted each other by crying "Wi ya hus?" New Orleans youth was in the grip of something called Voutian, a way of life given to the world by a jazz musician named Slim Gaillard. Its practicioners called themselves Vouts (pronounced Vowts), prefixed names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying "slam books"-- notebooks in which they exchanged brutally frank comment on all their friends. There was all sorts of other activity. The yo-yo was back in Dallas. Denver high-school girls were wearing one wing-back earring, so large that it covered the entire ear. Los Angeles youth had invented a fascinating custom-- taking off its shoes at dances. San Francisco girls rolled their bobby-sox down inside their shoes so nobody could see them. They didn't know why. Kansas City high-school girls were wearing bracelets on their ankles, four-in-hand ties with their blouses. At one high school, girls had to be going steady with a boy to be in the local swim, but also had to give them "the pitch" and get a new one every few weeks because it was agreed that boys were terrible. While all this was going on, teen-agers in many another city had suddenly become dignified. In Detroit, high-school girls were abandoning sloppy sweaters and saddle shoes for blouses, nylons and trim footwear. Indianapolis teen-agers frowned on anybody who "acted crazy like kids used to." Seattle girls were sedately mad about knitting. But this was just a fad too. Few well-indoctrinated parents would be surprised if their offspring carried it a little farther, began wearing peg-top pants and bustles and crying "Twenty-three skidoo!" |