NHD 2019: U.S. History 20th Century Post WWII

Last Updated on September 4, 2018

The Tragedy of McCarthyism

• Marshall [George C.] and McCarthyism from America’s Library
• Red Scare – Pointing Their Pens: Herblock and Fellow Cartoonists Confront the Issues
• More cartoons about Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism from Herblock’s History exhibition
• More cartoons about Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism from Herblock! exhibition
• Creating Cartoons: Art and Controversy Library of Congress Blog June 2, 2015
• A Climate of Fear – Hope for America: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture
• The Devil in Massachusetts from Politics and the Dancing Body Turmoil at Home and Cold War Protest exhibition
• Senator Joseph McCarthy historical newspaper coverage through 1957
• McCarthyism historical newspaper coverage through 1957
• Joseph McCarthy images (most only thumbnails)
• Lionel Stander, with cigarette hanging from his lips, testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee
• U.S. Reports related to McCarthyism
• Folk Singers, Social Reform, and the Red Scare

Little Rock Nine: Triumph and Tragedy of Integration

• Little Rock Nine historical newspaper coverage through 1963
• Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins on the treatment of the Little Rock Nine December 17, 1957
• Portrait of Roy Wilkins
• Little Rock Nine group portrait
• U.S. Troops escort African American students from Central High School
• Little Rock Nine images
• Little Rock Nine mentions in oral history videos from the Civil Rights History Project
• A Member of the Little Rock Nine Discusses Her Struggle to Attend Central High Smithsonian.com April 22, 2016
• 60 Years On, A Look Back at the Little Rock Nine Associated Press video
• Little Rock Nine commemorative U.S. legislation

Banning of DDT: Rachel Carson’s Triumph

• Primary Source Spotlight: Rachel Carson
• DDT reports and other texts
• DDT historical newspaper coverage through 1963
• Modern U.S. legislation related to DDT 1973 on

Loving v. Virginia: Tragedy of Time, Triumph of Love

• U.S. Reports: Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
• U.S. Reports: Turner et al. v. Safley et al., 482 U.S. 78 (1987) references Loving v. Virginia
• H.Res.431 – 110th Congress (2007-2008): Recognizing the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia legalizing interracial marriage within the United States
• Loving v. Virginia: “Banished” for Love In Custodia Legis blog June 12, 2017
• “Loving vs Virginia” – LOC Conversation with Creators of Teen Book webcast
• Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview
• Interracial marriage historical newspaper coverage through 1963

The Tet Offensive

• Tet Offensive reports & other texts
• Uncle Sam carrying an M-16 rifle published in The Washington Post, January 28, 1968
• Everything’s Okay—They Never Reached the Mimeograph Machine published in The Washington Post, February 1, 1968
• I Don’t Know if Either Side is Winning, but I Know Who’s Losing published in The Washington Post, February 13, 1968
• Proclamation 3949 RESERVE RECOGNITION DAY By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation FEDERAL REGISTER, VOL. 34, NO. 242-THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1969 p. 5
• Commemorative U.S. legislation related to the Tet Offensive
• Spies, Allies & Murder? The Ominous Origins of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Hanoi’s Postcolonial War webcast
• Vietnam : a country study
• Primary Source Spotlight: Vietnam War
• World Spotlight: Vietnam