All Generations

• American generations : who they are and how they live (Library E-book) - Chapter 1 has detailed information on the five living generations of Americans: the Millennial generation, Generation X, the Baby Boom, the Swing generation, and the World War II generation.
  
  
• Key to Generations- Generations broken down by age according to Howe & Strauss, authors of Millenials Rising and Generations.

Baby Boomers (1943-1960)

• Baby boom: Americans born 1946 to 1964 / by Cheryl Russell (Library E-book)
• Fifties Website
• National Association of Baby Boomers

MTV (late 70's - early 80's)

Generation X (1961-1981)

• Generation X : Americans born 1965 to 1976 / by the New Strategist editors (Library E-book)
• Generation X Defies Definition

Generation Y (1984-1994)

Millenials (1982-2000)

• Millennials rising : the next great generation /by Neil Howe and Bill Strauss; cartoons by R.J. Matson. LOCATION - Osceola and Winter Park Library -Call Number: HQ796.H74 2000 - Available for 3 week checkout.

Net or Next (1993-2000)

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Biographies & More

• The Academy of Achievement - For more than 40 years, this unique non-profit entity has sparked the imagination of students across America and around the globe by bringing them into direct personal contact with the greatest thinkers and achievers of the age.
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography-Center
• Biography from A&E's Television Series
• Biography Resource Center (Library Database) - Comprehensive, full-text, online biographical reference database covering literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
• Gale Women's History Month
• Jewish Women's Archive
• Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Nobel Foundation - The official web site of the Nobel Foundation offers a biography of Alfred Nobel, information about the organization , and details of awardees.
• PEOPLE WITH A HISTORY: LESBIAN AND GAY ICONS
• Popular Cultures - Historical Analysis New!
• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• PBS History-Biographies
• Reuters New!
• Time 100
• Women Mathematicians
• Women's International Center Biography Index

Places

• Best Photos of the Year 2005 New!
• Starbucks
• Coachella: Kind of Like Woodstock by Sam Tanzer of the Stanford Daily
• NASA
• National Geographic
• Newseum : The Berlin Wall
• Psychodelic 60s: Woodstock
• Three Mile Island - Middletown, Pennsylvania
• World Trade Center

Things

Hint: to find more information on these and other topics, try accessing some of our Library Databases. Academic Search Premier, Lexis Nexis, Encyclopaedia Britannica or WorldBook Online will provide you with a wide variety of credible sources .

• All Movie Guide - A searchable directory of movies, with browsing by genre, country, and time period.
• AboutMyGeneration
• Burning Man New!
• History of Aids (1981-1986)
• Ipod
• YouTube
• MTV - Click on the "Think" tab to learn more about important issues that speak to your generation.
• Facebook
• Myspace - For more information on Myspace and how it speaks to your generation, try this sample search: Myspace AND Generation using Google or any other Search Engines.
• Pinky Lee Boomers First TV Hero
• Photoshop Hoax? New!
• Tweeners
• U.S.A. for Africa

Blogs

• Aging Hipsters
• Anderson Cooper 360
• Baby Boom Memories
• The Boomer Blog
• Generation Viewpoints