History 148C: Web Links

The 1950s | The Civil Rights Movement | The Sixties: Politics & Government
The Sixties: Music and Film | The Sixties: Bohemianism & Activism

Literature and Culture of the 1950s

The Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation.
From the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Virginia, a word searchable archive of sixties documents.
Professor Edwin Moise's Sixties Bibliography
An extremely comprehensive and well organized bibliography of the decade with particular emphasis on Viet Nam.
University of Texas Viet Nam Project
Document Archives
University of Virginia--sixties document archives. Sixties sites listings at UVA links site.
Apollo
Nasa's site on the Apollo missions includes an enormous collection of photographs.
"Aggression from the North"
State Department White Paper on Viet Nam, February 27, 1965.
The Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin incident as reported to Congress by President Lyndon Johnson on August 5, 1965 and the subsequent Joint Resolution of Congress passed on August 7.
Images from Viet Nam
Maps of Viet Nam
Political Advertising
Although it was seen only once on national television, Lyndon Johnson's Girl with Daisy and Atomic Explosion has become canonical.
Black Panther Platform, October 1966
The Port Huron Statement
The founding manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1960.
Letters From U.S. Soldiers in Vietnam

Music Festivals
Big Sur, Monterey and Woodstock.
The Beatles
As you might expect, Beatlemania has flourished on the Web. Start here and never--really--sleep again.
The Grateful Dead
Perhaps second only to the beatles, Dead Heads have descended on the Web with the enthusiasm that only true zealots can muster.
Robert Altman's Gallery
What did they look like? Director Robert Altman's photographs of artists, musicians and politicos shows us. Many of the photograph's captions have links to interesting sites.
Timothy Leary
All things psychadelic, groovy and just plain far-out.
Ken Kesey
Merry Pranksters Archives
The Wild Bohemians
Hipsters, Flipsters and finger-popping daddies. Links to the music of the decade.
Andy Warhol

Nam June Paik
Phil Ochs
Ochs and his contemporaries demonstrated the essential links between vernacular American folk music, bohemianism and activism. This Ochs site has an important section that provides links that explore contemporary folk genres.
San Francisco rock, 1965-69
A chronology of the Dead, Airplane, Quicksilver, the Fillmore, Avalon, Family Dog and on and on.

Beat Culture through 1965
San Francisco's De Young Museum exhibit.
Haight-Ashbury
A comprehensive bibliography of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco.
The Digger's Archives
A rich resource for underground social alternatives in San Francisco.
Ed Keinholz
From the Whitney Museum, a retrospective of assemblage sculptor Ed Keinholz.
On the Road