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Bibliography
- "An Historical Bibliography of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism in the United States since World War II." Longstreth, Richard.
Architecture and Landscapes
- "Ranch Houses Are Not All the Same" (PDF). Bricker, David.
- Documentation and Conservation of Building Sites and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement (DOCOMOMO US)
- Modern Homes Philadelphia. Overview of Philadelphia Area Mid-Century Modern Residential Architecture.
- "Modernism + the Recent Past." National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- Ranch Revival. A Homeowner's Guide to a Suburban Classic.
- Split-Level Home Network. Celebrating the versatility and value of Bi-Level, Split-Level and Raised Ranch Homes.
- The Cultural Landscape Foundation. "Whats Out There"
- "After the War: A Look at Post-World War II Suburban Housing." Massey, James C. and Shirley Maxwell.
- Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II: Making Poswar Landscapes Visible (Review)
Archaeology
- Society for Commerical Archeology. Established in 1977, SCA is the oldest national organization devoted to the buildings, artifacts, structures, signs and symbols of the twenthieth century commerical landscape.
History
- American Social History Online. Aquifer American Social History Online is a research project of the Digital Library Federation and is focused on finding, gathering and collecting distributed and disparate scholary content in American Social History.
- A Biography of America: The Fifties Annenberg Media.
- G.C. Murphy Company, A Short History.
- Harland Bartholomew, His Contributions to American Urban Planning.
- All Suburbs are not Created Equal: A New Look at Racial Differences in Suburban Location (PDF). Harris, David R.
- Harry S. Truman Frontpage. American President - An Online Reference Resource
- H-Urban. A moderated, multi-disciplinary forum for scholarship on urban history and urban studies.
- "The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision" (PDF). Jackson, Kenneth T.
- "The Houses of Levittown in the Context of Postwar American Culture" (PDF). Kelly, Barbara M.
- "America and the Meaning of Suburbia, 1945-1960: A Documentary Source Problem." Marchand, Roland.
- Recent Past Recon (PDF). National Alliance of Preservation Commissions.
- The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. The nation's only congressionally chartered museum in its field and an intriguing place to learn the story of the Atomic Age.
- How the Suburbs Changed America. PBS.
- America on the Move. Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
- "Creating the Interstate System." Weingroff, Richard F.
- Call it Home: The House that Private Enterprise Built. The Voyager Company.
- The Suburban Ranch House in Post-World War II America: A Site of Contrast in an Era of Unease, Uncertainty, and Instability (PDF). Richfield, Clare J.
Images
- PhillyHistory.org. City of Philadelphia.
- Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections. The site provides access to over 13,000 visual images from 44 collections held by the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Chatham University Archives, the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation and Point Park University.
- The American Home. Images from the 1957 Better Homes & Gardens decorating book.
Lifestyle
- "Revisiting the Sitcome Suburbs." Hayden, Dolores.
- Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb. Hales, Peter Backon.
- Plan59.com. The museum (and gift shop) of Mid-Century Illustration
- Levittown PA: Building the Suburban Dream. The State Museum of Pennsylvania.
- The New Metropolis. A two-part documentary series about America's first suburbs.
Materials
- "Structural Glass: Its History, Manufacture, Repair and Replacement" (PDF). Dyson, Carol J. and Floyd Mansberger.
- "The Thrill of a New Home without the Cost: The Evolution of Residential Siding Materials in Arkansas." Hope, Holly.
- "The Metal and Glass Curtain Wall" (PDF). Kaskel, Bruce S.
- "Stonewalling America: Simulated Stone Products" (PDF). McKee, Ann Milkovich.
Preserving the Recent Past
- "The Shifting Signposts of Significance." Abele, Deborah Edge and Grady Gammage, Jr.
- "Preserving the Recent Past: An Introduction" (PDF). Jandl, W. Ward.
- "Saving the Suburban Sixties: Historic Preservation Planning in Fairfax County, Virginia" (PDF). Kriviskey, Bruce M.
- "The Recent Past." (PDF) Shiffer, Rebecca A.
Case Studies, Development Tools and Research Institutions
- Edward J. Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development
- First Suburbs Handbook (PDF). Mid-America Regional Council
- First Suburbs Consortium
- National Center for Suburban Studies. Hofstra University