- 1920s Experience
Arts, entertainment, personailties, music, events, inventions, and fads.
www.angelfire.com/co/pscst
- American Icons
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Wide-ranging series from PRI's Studio 360. Host Kurt Andersen explores the art, books, movies, music, and design that have come to represent the culture and character of the United States.
studio360.org/americanicons
- Authentic History Center
Comprises images, artifacts, sounds, written letters, and diaries that illustrate American popular culture from the American Revolution through to the modern age.
www.authentichistory.com
- Bad Fads Museum
The fads you wished would stay forever (or never come back).
www.badfads.com
- BBC Online: I Love
A look at TV, music, film, toys, and fashions throughout the decades.
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove
- Crazyfads.com
Lists fads that have come and gone by decade starting with the 1920s.
www.crazyfads.com
- Detritus
Dedicated to recycled culture.
www.detritus.net
- Do You Remember?
Online resource of nostalgia and memorabilia from the '70s, '80s and '90s.
www.doyouremember.co.uk
- Hipster Handbook
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Guide for those who possess taste, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. Includes a hipster quiz, daily picks, glossary, clues to if you are a hipster, and more.
www.hipsterhandbook.com
- Identity and Media Culture Icons
Derived from a Communications Theory seminar exploring popular media influences on identity.
www.theory.org.uk/ct-id.htm
- Institute of Official Cheer, The
Where old pop culture is converted into chipper, spiffy, feather-light postmodern commentary on commercial culture.
www.lileks.com/institute
- MyjestikBlog
A blog that features every aspect of popular culture including art, fashion, film, photography, and music.
myjestikblog.com
- Once Were Heroes!
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Celebrates British youth culture in the 20th century.
www.yesterdayskids.co.uk
- ookworld: Observing Obscure Kulture
Eclectic sundries for the kulturally shell shocked.
www.ookworld.com
- Overthinking It
Popular culture blog covers topics from entertainment and politics to the minutiae of grammar. Features essays, video, podcast, and a hint of snark.
www.overthinkingit.com
- Painstick's Playhouse
Featuring retro culture, old ads, Pez art, cereal boxes, and more.
www.painstick.com
- PicksPop
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Pop culture pick 'em game. Predict pop culture events, accumulate points, and prove how in-the-know you are.
pop.pickspal.com
- Pop Culture Madness!
One-stop information location for pop culture, pop music, trivia, jokes, and a bunch of other stuff.
www.popculturemadness.com
- Pop History Now
Features a random year in pop history every weekday. Covers music, televison, movies, news, and politics.
www.pophistorynow.com
- PopCult Magazine
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Online magazine featuring articles and photo galleries devoted to pop culture of the past and present.
www.popcultmag.com
- popular culture
Tutorial identifies various areas of popular culture from ancient times to the present, with a North American and European focus.
www.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/popculture
- Popular Culture Library
Research collection documenting late 19th and 20th century American popular culture.
www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pcl.html
- Port Halcyon
An "online town" themed to the golden days of music, fashion, and culture, with original articles about classic entertainment, a forum, and reviews. Offers vintage merchandise as well, including clothing, music, movies, books, and calendars.
www.porthalcyon.com
- Retro Junk
A nostalgia-filled look into our past, offering a selection of '80s commercials, theme songs, and movie trailers.
www.retrojunk.com
- Retrofuture
What happened to all that futuristic stuff which was supposed to change our lives by the year 2000? Find out here.
www.retrofuture.com
- Retroland
Social networking site and pop culture encyclopedia. Relive the fads and phenomena from your youth and connect with other members of your generation.
www.retroland.com
- Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center: Calls for Papers/Conferences
Comprehensive guide to cultural studies and popular culture on the Internet.
www.popcultures.com
- Secret Fun Spot
Images of toys, cartoons, and other memorabilia.
www.secretfunspot.com
- Shoot the Messenger
A Christian view of popular culture.
www.shootthemessenger.com.au
- Symbolism.Org
Explores the relationship of popular culture to symbols and symbolism.
www.symbolism.org
- This Is Pop
Features sites specializing in cult TV, film and music, comic books, old time radio, action figures and more.
thisispop.50megs.com
- Web Generation
Online community where people can experience nostalgia while sharing their memories of fads, personalities, history, and music from the past decades through the present.
www.wgeneration.com
- Whole Pop Magazine
Popular culture, including trivia, Sixties games, retro side-trips, and collectibles.
www.wholepop.com
- World of Kitsch
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Bringing you examples of the most desireable, yet hideous kitsch including music, celebrities, film, and more traditional items of kitsch.
www.worldofkitsch.com
- X-Entertainment
Bringing to light many of the more obscure, geeky parts of pop-culture that often get buried as years go by.
www.x-entertainment.com
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