U.S. Backed Coups for Economic Power (1953-2026)

Video: BBC “The 1953 Iran Coup Explained”
Primary Sources: “Declassified CIA & State Dept. documents” (National Security Archive)
Books: “All the Shah’s Men and Overthrow” by Stephen Kinzer
Interactive: “Cold War Coup Timeline” (Wilson Center)
Podcast: “Why Coups Happen” (VOX Podcast)

The American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)
Video: “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years” (1954–1965) by PBS
Primary Sources: “The National Archives: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965”
Books: “Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement” by Thomas E. Ricks
Interactive: “U.S. Civil Rights Trail Interactive Map” (Explore 100+ landmarks across 15 states)
Podcast: History Extra: “US Civil Rights: Legacy” (BBC) or “Imagine An America” (National Civil Rights Museum)

The Vietnam War (1954-1975)

Video: “The Vietnam War Explained” (TED-Ed)
Primary Sources: “Pentagon Papers excerpts” (1971) speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and John Kerry
Interactive Map: “Major Events of the Vietnam War” (National Archives)
Documentary: “The Vietnam War” (Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, PBS)
Book: “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien

The Birth of Solar Power (1954)

Website: “History of Photovoltaics” (U.S. Department of Energy)
Video:  “How Solar Cells Work” (Khan Academy)
Archive: “Bell Labs Press Photos” (AT&T Archives)
Activity: “Build a Mini Solar Car” (Teach Engineering) Oil Extraction in the Niger Delta (1956)
Video: “The Niger Delta’s Dirty Oil” (Al Jazeera Witness)
Photo Essay: “Oil & Pollution” (Amnesty International)
Book: “Unbowed” by Wangari Maathai ExxonMobil and CO2 Research (1957)
Archive: “What Exxon Knew” (Inside Climate News)
Podcast: “Drilled” (fossil fuel cover-ups)
Primary Sources: “Humble Oil CO2 papers” (scanned originals)

The Keeling Curve (1958)

Data: “Live Keeling Curve” (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Video: PBS Terra “The Graph That Changed the World”
Interactive: NOAA Climate Dashboard Scientists Warn and Clean Air Acts Begin (1963)
Video: “The Great Smog of London” (BBC Teach)
Website: Clean Air Acts 1956 & 1963 summaries (EPA historical overview)
Article: “When Automakers Knew” (The Guardian Climate Files, 2023)
Interactive: “EPA Air Data Map”

The Stonewall Riots and the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement (1969 to Present)
Video: “Stonewall Uprising” by PBS American Experience
Primary Sources: “The Stonewall Reader” The New York Public Library Archive
Books: “Transgender History” by Susan Stryker
Interactive: “Stonewall Forever: A Living Monument” (An interactive digital experience by the LGBT Community Center and Google)
Podcast: “Making Gay History” Earthrise and the First Earth Day (1970)
Website: NASA “Earthrise” story + photo
Video: 1970 “PBS American Experience: Earth Day”
Timeline: “EPA Origins Timeline”
Website: Earth Day Network

The World Begins to Talk About the Environment (1972)

Primary Source: “Stockholm Declaration” (1972, UNEP Archive)
Book/Report: “The Limits to Growth summary”(Club of Rome)
Video:“Stockholm +50” (UNEP)
Website: “UN Environment Historical Timeline”