Civil Rights Movement. Cold War. Colonial. Cuban Missile Cr

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LIBRARY 150 SPRING 2000

• Janet Johnson
• Week 10

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American Decades

• REF 973.9 AME
• (vol. 1980-1989)
• Victor Bondi, Editor

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PUBLISHED

• Detroit, MI
• The Gale Research, Inc.
• C1996

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PHYSICAL FORMAT

• Hardcover
• 8 volume set
• ISBN 0-8103-8881-2
• Approximately 774 pages per volume

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ARRANGEMENT

• Arranged by volumes

• Arranged chronologically

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• World Events
• The Arts
• Business and the Economy
• Education
• Fashion
• Government and Politics
• Law and Justice
• Lifestyles and Social Trends

• Media
• Medicine and Health
• Religion
• Science and Technology
• Sports
• General References
• Contributors
• Index to Photographs
• General Index

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SCOPE

• Each volume contains happenings from a different
  decade
• 1910-1919 1920-1929
• 1930-1939 1940-1949
• 1950-1959 1960-1969
• 1970-1979 1980-1989
• 1990-1999 (I havent seen the publish date yet)

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• Shows changes and challenges unique to each
  10-year period, which are covered with
  extraordinary depth and thoroughness.
• Each volume begins with a chronology of world
  events to provide a context for the American
  experience.
• Explore American life during the decade from 12
  separate perspectives.

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PURPOSE

• To give overview of important happenings in
  America during each of the decades

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AUTHORITY

• Victor Bondi, Editor
• Library Research Walter W. Ross and Robert S.
  McConnell
• Assisted by the following at Thomas Cooper
  Library of the University of South Carolina
  Linda Holderfield, Virginia Weathers, Marilee
  Birchfield, Stefanie Buck, Cathy Eckman, Rebecca
  Feind, Jill Holman, Karen Joseph, Jean Rhyne,
  Kwamine Washington, Connie Taylor, and David
  Haggard.

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PERSONAL

• Very informative
• Easy to use
• Used by many groups for a large variety of
  projects

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EXAMPLES OF USE

• We have a history teacher that does a project
  each semester on the song, We Didnt Start the
  Fire. The students have to find out what
  happened, or what the phrase stands for, for the
  different time periods. This set helps
  tremendously.
• Can be used to find topics in the news headline
  makers people in the news deaths of famous
  people publications-not only for each of the
  decades but also for ach of the topics in each
  volume.

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WORLD WIDE WEB

• Searched American History and came up with one
  called United States http//search.netscape.com/So
  ciety/History/United States?cpsrpmatcat
• Goes into categories of
• African American
• Civil Rights Movement
• Cold War
• Colonial
• Cuban Missile Crisis

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CONTINUED

• Presidents
• Space Exploration
• States
• Terrorism
• Through the Years
• Vice Presidents
• Wars
• West
• Women
• See Also
• American History Timeline

• Disasters
• First Ladies
• Flags
• Government Documents
• Great Depression
• Historic Places
• Historical Documents
• Labor Movements
• Native American
• Organizations
• Personas
• POW-MIA

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