The links below should come in handy with your research projects and should aid you in a broader understanding of the era.

General: Society & Culture  |  Civil Rights & Liberation Movements  |  Politics  |  Vietnam  |  The Counterculture  |  Artistic Movements/Scenes of the Decade  |  Sixties Popular Music by Genre

General: Society & Culture

The 1960s: A Bibliography.  By Rebecca Jackson, Iowa State University Library.
A good place to start, this is an extensive, up-to-date list of scholarly and non-scholarly works on the sixties.

1960s links from Michigan.gov  

H-1960s Email Discussion List
"H-1960s is a forum for the discussion of the history, politics, culture, and legacy of the 1960s." 
 

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University.
"The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s."

Martin Luther King, Jr., & the Civil Rights Movement, the Seattle Times.
"Learn about this civil-rights leader and his sweeping influence."  Contains photos, interviews with contemporaries, and other commentary on the life and career of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights in Mississippi, Digital Archive, McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi.
"The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi."

César E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco State University.
Contains speeches, photos, and news articles on the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez. 

People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History, Section V, North America, Fordham Univ.
Links to documents on LBGT's in US history, Stonewall, and the anti-gay backlash.   
 

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Libray and Museum, Austin, TX.
Links to speeches and other documents, photos, audio and video, and numerous special exhibits.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston, MA. 
"Our purpose is to advance the study and understanding of President Kennedy's life and career and the times in which he lived; and to promote a greater appreciation of America's political and cultural heritage, the process of governing and the importance of public service. See our Mission Statement."

Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, CA.
Online exhibits, multimedia, and documents from the years of the Nixon presidency.  

Washington Post, Revisiting Watergate
"Revisiting Watergate provides a look back at Nixon's legacy with: a video with Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor with the Post and Woodward, currently an assistant managing editor at the paper; an archive of Post stories from the period; a photo gallery of Post and other photos from the Watergate era as well as a collection of cartoons from the era; 
a multimedia page including audio from the famous tapes and video clips from some of the famous moments during the scandal." 

The Free Speech Movement Digital Archive, University of California, Berkeley. 
"The Free Speech Movement (FSM) Digital Archives document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement . . . as well as its origins in political protest and civil rights movements and its legacy of political activism and educational reform that can be traced throughout the country and the world down to the present."
 

The War in Vietnam - A Story in Photographs, National Archives.
"The war in Vietnam has been described as the war America watched from their living rooms. Images of combat and American GIs were projected through our TV screens and across our newspapers daily." Photographs and descriptions on this page "serve publishers, historians, and students who want to learn more about Vietnam. They include images of almost every aspect of the war." 

The Wars for Viet Nam, 1945-1975, Vassar College.
"This site, developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College, offers students an opportunity to examine some of those sources, including numerous official documents."

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy Vietnam, International Relations Program, Mount Holyoke College.
Contains hundreds of online primary source documents relating to America's involvement in Vietnam.
 

The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change, Special Collections, University of Virginia.  
This page contains wonderful background information on various sixites movements from civil rights to the counterculture, Black Mountain poetry to antiwar activism. 

The Sixties Project, Univeristy of Virginia
The Sixties Project provides a number of resources specifically for scholars: On-line back issues of the Viet Nam Generation Journal, information about past and future Sixties Generations Conferences, and information about the SIXTIES-L discussion list."  

The Trial of the Chicago Seven, University of Missouri, Kansas City
See this thorough site for information of the Chicago Seven trial, including: a chronology, a general account, YIPPIE Posters, maps, biographies, audio clips, and trial transcripts. 

The Digger Archives
"The Digger Archives is an ongoing Web project to preserve and present the history of this anarchist guerilla street theater group. . ." 
 

Artcylcopedia's Artists by Movement: Pop Art, 1950's to 1960's: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein. 

Artcylcopedia's Artists by Movement: Op Art, 1950's to 1960's: Vasarely and Bridget Riley, Richard Anuszkiewicz, François Morellet, Kenneth Noland and Jesús-Rafael Soto. 

Artcylcopedia's Artists by Movement: Abstract Expressionism, Centered in New York City, 1946 to 1960's: Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, and Helen Frankenthaler.

Artcylcopedia: Conceptual Art (Fluxus, Neodada, installation art): Yves Klein, Yoko Ono, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, On Kawara, Piero Manzoni, Daniel Buren, and Dennis Oppenheim. 
 

Baroque Pop: The Left Banke, the Beach Boys, producer Phil Spector, the Millennium, The Walker Brothers, Free Design, Love, and composer/arranger Burt Bacharach.

Brill Building Pop: the Coasters, Gene Pitney, the Drifters, the Shangri-Las, the Ronettes, Neil Sedaka, and Connie Francis. 

Folk Rock: The Beau Brummels, Tim Buckley, The Byrds, Leonard Cohen Crosby, Stills & Nash, Donovan, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Fairport Convention, The Lovin' Spoonful, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Simon & Garfunkel, Buffalo Springfield, and Arlo Guthri.

Funk: James Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire, Funkadelic, The Isley Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, The Meters, The Ohio Players, Parliament, Sly & the Family Stone, War, Bootsy Collins, and Tower of Power. 

Garage Rock: The Chocolate Watchband, The Count Five, The Kingsmen, The Music Machine, The Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators, The Trashmen, Barry & the Remains, Blues Magoos, Mouse & the Traps, and ? & the Mysterians.

Merseybeat: The Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer, The Merseybeats, Peter & Gordon, The Searchers, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, The Fourmost, Freddie & the Dreamers, Herman's Hermits, and The Hollies. 

Mod Rock: the Small Faces, the Creation, Billy Nichols, David Bowie, the Action, the Smoke, John's Children, and the Who.

Motown: The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Martha & the Vandellas, The Marvelettes, Diana Ross, The Supremes, The Temptations, and Stevie Wonder. 

Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan: Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins, Glen Campbell, Patsy Cline Little, Johnny Horton, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Charlie Rich, Marty Robbins, Conway Twitty, Kitty Wells, and Tammy Wynette.

Psychedelic Rock:  Yardbirds, Byrds, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Traffic, Grateful Dead, the Doors, Love, Tomorrow, 13th Floor Elevators, Blue Cheer, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Jefferson Airplane.

Soul: James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, The Impressions, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, and Smokey Robinson.

Space Age Pop: Esquivel, Perrey-Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, Lucia Pamela, Kenyon Hopkins, Lord Sitar, and Mystic Moods Orchestra.

Surf Rock: The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Jan & Dean, The Lively Ones, The Surfaris, The Ventures, The Astronauts, The Fantastic Baggys, and Gary Usher.