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The Hollywood Ten
Short biographies of the individuals who refused to testify in HUAC's hearings, thereby earning a place on the blacklist.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html
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The Great Crash and the Great Slump
A study of the economics of the Great Depression by J. Bradford De Long of University of California at Berkeley.
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/Great_Depression

Living New Deal Project
Information about Depression era public works projects in California, including photographs and reproductions of documents. User input is solicited.
http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu/
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Conversations with History
Unedited transcripts of interviews with eminent people of the century.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/People

Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living
Written by Emma Goldman after Durruti's death.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Essays/durruti.html
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The Economic History of the Twentieth Century: World War I
An assessment by University of California professor J. Bradford DeLong of the economic impact of the First World War.
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_WWI10.html
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History of Evolutionary Thought
A timeline with information on major contributors to biology, geology, and paleontology from Aristotle up to the 20th century. From the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evothought.html
Top/Society/History/By_Topic/Science

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873)
Biography and description of the work of one of the founders of geology as a science in England.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/sedgwick.html
Top/Society/History/By_Topic/Science/Geology/Sedgwick,_Adam

Alfred Wegener
Brief biography and description of work from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html
Top/Society/History/By_Topic/Science/Geology/Wegener,_Alfred

Plate Tectonics: The Rock History of an Idea
Explains the early observation of the similar coastlines and undersea continental shelves and how this led to the development of theory of an ancient single land mass. Discusses early contributors to the field like Alfred Wegener.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/techist.html
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