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If you can't find what you are looking for here, you had better ask me!  Included engines: alltheweb, altavista, and profusion!

http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html

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Don't know how to pronounce that new word? Get the definition and hear how it is pronounced!

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What a great site! 

http://bartleby.com/

 

PowerPoint presentation   Summer Reading WebQuest  -  worksheet #3

TIPS website!

1960's websites http://cougartown.com/slang.html Want to what slang was used in the 60's?  Check out this site!

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005251.html This site has information about world history and government in the 60's.

http://www.woodstock69.com/ This site is about the music festival of the 60's: Woodstock!

http://americanhistory.si.edu/lisalaw/index.htm  A photo journey from 65 to 71.  This will give you some visual information about the styles of dress and life in the 60's.

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html  Cultural history of the 60's.  A good site!

http://www.soul-patrol.com/funk/essay.htm  A site on black music in the 60's.

http://www.crazyfads.com/60s.htm  Information on the fads of the 60's.

http://www.robinsweb.com/60s/index.html  A personal history of the 60's. 

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/century/1960s.htm This site is the result of a student project.  A very good site!

https://members.tripod.com/lisawebworld2/60s.html  A good site for all kinds of 60's data!

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Narrative.html  A few personal narratives on the 60's.

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1960.htm  A 60's timeline.  

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1960s.html You can find just about everything here!

http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/timelinepages/1960s1.htm  Fashion of the 60s!

http://www.timelineindex.com/content/select/377/44,1574,1577,368,377?so=a&filter=477 Another great site!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37886/The_200_Greatest_Songs_of_the_1960s Music of the 60s!

http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/US_History/USH0217.pdf Many links to the 60s counterculture!

 

Utopian/Dystopian Societies http://utopia.nypl.org/0_sources.html 

 

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