At our homeschool co-op this next school year, I’ll be teaching a high school class on 20th century world history and literature. These are some of the resources I plan to use as I travel through the 20th century with my students. I want to start this week posting useful resources and links for my (future) students and anyone else who’s interested.

General Print Resources:
DK Millennium Children’s History of the 20th Century. DK Publishing, 1999. Out of print, but available used.
Chronicle of the 20th Century. Chronicle Publications, 1987. Disadvantages: This book is no longer in print, and my edition only goes through 1986; on the other hand, I paid $10 for it at a used book sale. This book is similar to the one that Sonlight curriculum originally recommended for the study of 20th Century history, 20th Century Day by Day, also out of print.
The Visual History of the Modern World. Edited by Terry Burrows. Carleton Books, 2009. This book is the one that Sonlight now recommends as a spine text for 20th Century history. The one reviewer at Amazon blasts the book for bias. I have yet to read the entire book, so I couldn’t say yea or nay.
Our Century in Pictures for Young People. Edited by Richard B. Stolley. Little, Brown, and Company, 2000. Also out of print.
The Decades of Twentieth Century America series. Twenty-First Century Books, a division of Lerner Publishing, 2010. These books, one for each decade of the twentieth century, obviously focus on the United States, but I found the pictures and the text useful and interesting. The titles are America in the 1900’s, America in the 1910’s.
The Common Room: Books and Resources on the Twentieth Century

Food and Recipes
Food Timeline has links to recipes and recipe books from all the years of the century.
Depression Cooking With Clara 90+ year old Clara teaches how to cook like they did during the Great Depression while telling stories about her life.

Books and Journalism
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Biography/Autobiography starting in 1917.
Drama starting in 1917.
Fiction starting in 1948.
Novel from 1917 to 1947, when the prize was renamed “Fiction.”
History starting in 1917.
Music starting in 1943. (Did you know there was a Pulitzer Prize for music? Me neither.)
Poetry starting in 1918.
Editorial Writing starting in 1917.
Reporting and National Reporting from 1917.
Editorial Cartooning starting in 1922.
There are many, many other categories of journalism Pulitzers, but these are the ones I thought would be most helpful in studying the century year by year. Unfortunately, there are NOT copies of the Pulitzer Prize winning news articles, editorials, or cartoons at the Pulitzer website until the year 1995.

Bestseller Lists, 1900-1923.
Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels and nonfiction (starting in 1918) in the United States in the 1900s
Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century–Composite List.
Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present.
Carnegie Medal WInners, 1937-present.

Music
NPR 100: The 100 most important musical works of the twentieth century, according to NPR and its listeners.
Music of the 20th Century, Part 1 at About.com
Music of the 20th Century, Part 2 at About.com

Art and Artists
WebMuseum: 20th Century Art

Fashion and Clothing
Vintagevixen: 20th Century Female Fashion Facts by Decade.
Costume History Silhouettes: 1900-1940.

News and Events
Timeline of the Twentieth Century
Fact Index (searchable by year with information about mathematics, natural science, applied arts and sciences, social science, philosophy, culture and fine arts)
Year by Year at Infoplease with quizzes for each decade.
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
The Top 100 This-and-Thats of the 20th Century

Movies and Television
Academy Awards: Best Picture, 1927-present