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WORLD EVENTS What key things happened politically in the United States and the rest of the world? Were there any major natural or manmade disasters?
American Decades 1990-1999	973.92 McC
The American Years; a chronology of U.S. history—events through 1997	REF 973
Day by Day The Nineties 2 volumes	REF 909.82 AVA
Defining Moments Disasters	904 FOR
The Dictionary of 20^th Century World Politics; If you know the name of an event; for example Persian Gulf War, you can look up information about it.	REF 909.82 SHA
Factfile of 20^th Century Events; world events year by year through 1997	909.82 CON
History of the 1990’s –covers all topics	973.92 CRA
LIFE Album 1996 Pictures of the Year	909.82 LIF
The 1990’s from the Persian Gulf War to Y2K	973.928 FEI
100 Catastrophic Disasters	904 CAW
Pictorial History of the 20^th Century; by year through 1997	909.82 H223
Time Annual 1996 The Year in Review	909.82 TIM
Time Annual 2001	909.82 TIM
Time 75 Years 1923-1998; important events by year.	909.82 TIM
Timelines of History Volume 10 through 2005	REF 909 TIM
Today in history; a day by day review of world events	909 T633
The Twentieth Century Day by Day Events by year for all areas from world events to sports	REF 909.82 DAN
UXL American Decades 1990-1999	973.91 NAG
Visual History of the Twentieth Century by year through 1999	909.82 B
The World Almanac and Book of Facts Every year the almanac has a section called “Year in Review” with a chronology of events by month for that year.	317.3 WOR
WORLD EVENTS
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html World events by year
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/1990s/ US History 1990’s
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html Click on Events and search by time period
http://www.historycentral.com/20th/index.html Major Events of the 20^th century
http://www.mrpopculture.com/ This site has both world events and pop culture from the twentieth century through 2010. Scroll to bottom of screen. http://www.mapreport.com/subtopics/p/countries/usa.html#Top U.S. timeline of politics, 2000 to present http://www.infoplease.com/world.html World Events--Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/yearsanddecades.html Popular Culture, Events, Technology and Inventions from 1990’s to 2009. http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/archive.asp Front pages from newspapers around the world for some major events by year 2003-2010
DISASTERS
http://www.mapreport.com/century/disasters.html World Disasters, 21^st Century Event Map
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001437.html Disasters by year 21^st century
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/historical.php Earthquakes by year
http://geology.about.com/od/eq_regional/Earthquakes_in_Your_Region.htm Earthquakes by region, country, date
http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetGOjg/Disasters.htm Major airline disasters from 1920 to 2002
http://www.phschool.com/science/planetdiary/calendar/ Earth’s Calendar. Search by month and then look by year for the events.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0905244.html Worst weather of the twentieth century http://www.mapreport.com/subtopics/d/countries/usa.html#Top U.S. disasters, 2000 to present

				TECHNOLOGY What Inventions emerged on the scene? What was the hottest computer game? What home entertainment advances were there? What was the progress benchmark for cellular technology for your year(s)?
			American Decades 1990-1999			973.92 McC
			The History of Science and Technology Search by year			509 BUN
			1000 Inventions & Discoveries			608 BRI
			Popular Science Year by Year; discoveries and inventions from last century through 2000			609 COO
			Space Exploration Almanac Volumes 1 & 2			629.45 SAA
			Timelines of Science and Technology Volume 10 (1980-2005)			REF 609 TIM
			UXL American Decades 1990-1999			973,91 NAG
		http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/yearsanddecades.html Popular Culture, Events, Technology and Inventions from 1990’s to present http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html Search by year, then scroll down to Science http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0921277.html Recent science discoveries 1997 to present http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121599a.htm?once=true& A century of inventions through 2009 http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/ Timelines of invention and technology by century http://www.pcworld.com/article/123950-7/the_50_greatest_gadgets_of_the_past_50_years.html Fifty greatest gadgets of the past 50 years picked by PC World magazine http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/ModernInvention.htm Timeline of modern inventions from 2001 to present http://www.thocp.net/timeline/timeline.htm Chronology of history of personal computers http://www.telephonetribute.com/cell.html Cellular and mobile phones-history and technology History of video games through 2001 http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vidgame/ Chronology of Video Game Systems-click on year at bottom of screen through 2010 – check out chronology of specific games at bottom of the screen at this site. http://www.ivanhoe.com/science/by_subject/engineering.html Discoveries and breakthroughs inside science—by topic http://www.howstuffworks.com/hdtv.htm High definition television 1998-search site for other topics:TiVo; MP3 players, etc. http://cellphones.lovetoknow.com/Cellular_Phone_Timeline Cellular phone timeline with links to innovation and technology for phones http://www.w-cellphones.com/timeline-of-cell-phones/ Timeline of cell phones http://www.intel.com/museum/archives/pctimeline.htm Personal computer timeline for last 25 years (through 2006). http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern_5.htm Twentieth century through 2009 timeline of important inventions
	POP CULTURE Music, Sports, Fashion, etc. Who/what was “hot” or “in” for your year in music, sports and fashion? Were any records broken? For what?
American Decades 1990-1999					973.92 McC
UXL American Decades 1990-1999					973.91 NAG
From Elvis to E-Mail; events of 20^th century year by year through 1999					973.9 DIC
Complete History of Costume & Fashion 1990’s					391 COS
Fashion, Costume and Culture; Volume 5: 1943-2003					REF 391.009 PEN
Guinness Book of World Records various years					031.02 GUI
20^th Century Fashion					391.009 WAT
20^th Century Fashion the 80’s & 90’s					391 LOM
Twentieth Century Fashion 100 Years of Style					391 WAT
A Century of Pop; 100 years of music that changed the world					781.63 GRE
The Baseball Chronicle					REF 796.357 NEM
Sports in America 1990-2003					796 WOO
Cinema Year by Year 1894-2006					REF 791.433 CIN
The Encyclopedia of American Television; Broadcast programming post-World War II to 2000					REF 791.4509 LAC
Stay Tuned; unforgettable moments in television news					791.45 GAR
Top Ten of Everything various years					031.02 ASH
Yearbook 1998 People Weekly					909.82 PEO
http://fashion.about.com/ - Type in year on Search line
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/1990links.htm Costumes
http://www.fashion-era.com/the_1990s.htm Fashion of the 1990’s
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html Search by year, then scroll down to Sports, Entertainment, Movies, Music, Books
http://www.xtrememusician.com/info/artists/genres/26.html Alternative music groups of the 90’s
http://www.chiff.com/pop-culture/1990s.htm Links to culture, history, etc. of the 1990’s
http://www.inthe90s.com/generated/time1990.shtml Pop culture of the 90’s-lists by year, also history
http://www.factmonster.com/search?fr=fmtnh&query=pop+trends Pop culture trends 1999, 2000, & 2001
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/99trends1.html Pop culture trends 1999
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/00poptrends1.html Pop Culture trends 2000
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/01poptrends1.html Pop culture trends 2001
http://www.hollywoodteenmovies.com/TEEN%20MOVIES%20OF%20THE%2090'S.html Teen movies of the 90’s
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/1990s Events of the 1990’s
http://www.classic-tv.com/shows/1990s.asp Television shows of the 90’s and 2000’s
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%201990's%20movies Movies of the 90’s
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/2006.html News, Events, Technology, Prices and Popular Culture 2006 http://teenfashion.about.com/od/celebritystyle/a/bestdressedteen.htm Best dressed teen celebrities 2011 http://www.ew.com/ew Entertainment Weekly, movie and tv stars 2011 http://www.people.com/people People magazine 2011 online http://www.parade.com/celebrity/slideshows/news/pop-culture-poll-results-2010.html Parade Magazine top pop culture stories Summer, 2010 http://parks.swank.com/topMovies.html Top 25 anticipated movies in 2011 http://fifa.com/worldcup/archive/southafrica2010/matches/index World Cup South Africa 2010 http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2010/ 2010 MTV Music Video Awards http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2010/ Ten best songs of 2010 to date
http://www.crazyfads.com/ Crazy fads- 1990’s through 2000’s http://www.filmsite.org/oscars.html Oscar winners through 2010 http://us.imdb.com/ Movie database with brief synopsis of films http://www.mapreport.com/subtopics/s/countries/usa.html U.S. Sports timeline 2000 to present, a summary of events; also Politics, Disasters( World Events) http://www.infoplease.com/sports.html Type in a year, and discover what happened for that year—all topics