A Streetcar Named Desire

• American politics after the war  (President Truman and the Marshall Plan)
• Cold War Links  (information from the fifties and sixties)

• Big Band Swing Music of 1940s (list of songs)
• Names of bands and singers

• Mardi Gras

• Women's Fashion in the 1940s
• The look of the 1940s
• Boys clothing during the 1940s

• Top 10 movies of the 1940s
• Film reviews of the 1940s (alphabetical)
• American Theatre

• History of inventions (timeline format with links)
• Innovation Timeline

7.  Literature

• 1940s Bestsellers (list of titles and authors)

8.  Economics 

9.  City of New Orleans 

• History of New Orleans
• A history 
• Brief History (includes picture links)

• Tennessee Williams (biography)
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams  (characters and plot)

General Resources

• Picturing the Century:  Post-War America  (photography from the National Archives)
• The Fifties Website  (music, trends, pop culture)
• The Nineteen Fifties and Sixties:  (information on women's work in post-war)
• Links for the 1920s, 30s and 40s (includes pictures)
• American History 1940-1949 (includes fashion, film, culture, etc)
• The Forties

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