These links to information about the 1950s, bridges and the Upper Peninsula provide further resources for your study. We hope you find them useful and informative. We check them periodically, but we cannot be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that site's webmaster.

1950s

• The Detroit Auto Show (The Detroit News)
• Fifties Web by Candace Rich
• History of the FBI (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s by Al Filreis (University of Pennsylvania)
• On the Air! Michigan Radio and Television Broadcasting 1920 - 2000 (Clink on the 1950s link.)
• The stars who turned Detroiters into couch potatoes (Detroit News)
• The United States Enters the Korean Conflict (Lesson Plan from the National Archives and Records Administration)
• U.S. History Standards, Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
• When bomb shelters were all the rage (The Detroit News)

Bridges

• Build a Bridge (NOVA Online)
• The Covered Bridges of Madison County (Iowa) (Madison Co. Chamber of Commerce)
• Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
• Historic Covered Bridges of Georgia (Georgia DOT Office of Bridge Design)
• International Bridge Building Contest (Illinois Institute of Technology)
• Michigan's Bridges
  • Ambassador Bridge
  • Bridges, Borders and Ferries (Michigan Department of Transportation)
  • The Official Web Site of the Mackinac Bridge (Mackinac Bridge Authority)
• Minnesota's Historic Bridges (Minnesota Historical Society State Historic Preservation Office)
• Roebling's Bridge Division (John Roebling's Sons Co. Online History Archive)
• Suspension Bridge Construction Activity (Society of Women Engineers)

The Upper Peninsula (Tourism Information)

• Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Upper Peninsula Travel & Recreation Association)
• Western U. P. (Western UP Convention and Visitors Bureau)

Contact the Michigan Historical Center.

Updated 08/11/2010