Who's Who of the 1960's
Barbra Hartings
Centerville Workshop
John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, 1961-1963.
Using a wide variety of resources, your group will collect a veritable wealth of information on that radical time, the 60's. You will organize all this info. into a dictionary, with the following requirements. There are many choices and options, but remember,

Your 1960's Dictionary must:
1. contain all the hypertext terms in the song.
2. be in alphabetical order.
3. be in complete sentences.
4. take at least 2 pieces of information from every category of resources.
5. contain enough information that the reader will understand the importance of this person or
event both in the context of the 60's, but also through the past 40 years.
6. have a Works Cited page at the end.


First, access the lyrics from Billy Joel's "We didn't start the Fire."

Category 1: Reference Collection: Select from these resources or others available in the LMC:

Daniel, Clifton, editor. Chronicle of the 20th Century. NY: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc., 1995.

Hamilton, Neil A. 1960s Counterculture in America. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.,
1997.

Larkin, Colin, editor. Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Eight volumes. NY: Grove Dictionaries, Inc., 1998.


Parker, Thomas and Douglas Nelson. Day by Day: The Sixties. Two volumes. NY: Facts on File Publications, 1983.

Salzman, Jack, ed. African-American Experience: Selections from the five-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. NY: Macmillan Library Reference, 1998.

U.S.A. Sixties. Six volumes. Danbury CT: Grolier Educational, 2001.



Category 2: Yearbooks, Almanacs, etc.:

World Book Yearbook. Annual publication: from 1960-1969. Chicago: Field Enterprises, 1960-1969.

Category 3: Non-fiction Collection (these are only a few of the books on the shelves; feel free to explore!)

Dougan, Clark, Stephen Weiss, et al. Nineteen Sixty-Eight. The Vietnam Experience series. Boston: Boston Publishing Co., 1983.

Fincher, E. B. Vietnam War. NY: Franklin Watts, 1980.

Gow, Catherine Hester. The Cuban Missile Crisis. World History series. San Diego CA: Lucent Books, 1997.

Kallen, Stuart A., editor. Sixties Counterculture. History Firsthand series. San Diego CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2001.

Kearns, Doris. Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream. NY: Harper & Row Pub., 1976.

Maga, Timothy. The 1960s: An Eyewitness History. NY: Facts on File Publications, 2003.

Martin, Waldo E., jr. and Patricia Sullivan, editors. Civil Right in the United States. Two volumes. NY: Macmillan Reference Group, 2000.

McNamara, Robert S. with Brian VanDeMark. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. NY: Times Books (Random House), 1995.

Milestones of the 20th Century. Danbury CT: Grolier Educational, 1999.


Category 4: Periodicals, Indexes

Use the Readers Guides (the dark green books above the current magazines) to find 2 or more articles.


Category 5: InfOhio Resources. Go to the InfOhio homepage (www.infohio.org), and access all sorts of excellent information from these sites:

(Be sure that your Works Cited page utilizes the proper format, eg: Clayborne Carson. "Malcolm X"; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000.
Apr 30 2004. <http://www.anb.org/articles/08/08-01846.html.)
American National Biography

(Remember, a person (American) must be dead to be found here.)
Annals of American History

Excellent Primary Source Documents
Newsbank

Newspaper articles covering many years!
EBSCO

Collections of hundreds of thousands of magazine, journal, transcripts, etc. dating back many years!
FirstGov

Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about government!
Ohio Historical Society

Collections of articles, photographs, and memorabilia from all periods of Ohio's history.

Category 6: Find at least 2 pictures from the 1960's period using either the file of Images in EBSCO, or these collections (Be certain to give proper credit in your Works Cited page).
American Memory Collection

Millions of photographs of historic times throughout American History.
Ohio Memory Collection

Historic photographs from Ohio's History

Category 7: LHS Databases
Find at least 2 articles from S.I.R.S. Researcher.
Find at least 2 articles from S.I.R.S. Government Reporter.
and find at least 2 articles from Gale's Discovering Series.

Category 8: Select at least 2 accurate, non-biased websites from these listed, or others:

(Be sure that you correctly cite these resources in your Works Cited page)
History USA 1960-1969
Your Place in Time
U.S. History, Dept of Labor
White House Website
Internet Public Library Presidents of the U.S. Website
American Cultural History
University of Colorado, Department of American History
Vietnam: The American Experience
Freedom: A History of Us
Education World
U.S. History, 1960's
University of Minnesota: American History Website
Martin Luther King, Jr. Website
We Shall Overcome
Official Web Site of Malcolm X

Category 9: Interview at least 2 persons who were at least teenagers (babyboomers) during the 1960's.
(These can be family members, neighbors, etc.bpretty much anyone over 48. Many of our faculty are in this set (Mrs. Hartings, Mrs. McCarty, Dr. Ison, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Charlton, Mr. Merchant, Mr. Kowaleski, Mrs. Nell, Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Gingerich, Mrs. Short, Mrs. Wertz, Col. Keeling, Ms. Conrad, Mr. Hoverman, Mrs. Clemens, Mr. Earnhart, Mrs. Flannery, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Lynch, and others), so you don't even have to leave the school to do this part. Be sure to cite these as interviews.)

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Great Job!!
Congratulations! By completing your Dictionary of the 1960's, you have now become familiar with the people and events that made the 1960's a crucial decade in American History. Be sure to turn your Dictionary, and your Works Cited in on the specified date.