Curriculum - American History 1951-present

  1. Baraka’s Dutchman Dramatizes Racial Hatred
  2. Barbara Jordan
  3. Barbara W. Tuchman
  4. Barbara Walters
  5. Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer Explain Superconductivity
  6. Barghoorn and Coworkers Find Amino Acids in 3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks
  7. Barghoorn and Tyler Discover 2-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils
  8. Baryshnikov Becomes Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre
  9. Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project Debuts
  10. Battle of Hue
  11. Battle of Ia Drang Valley
  12. Battle of Imjin River
  13. Battle of Pork Chop Hill
  14. Bay of Pigs Invasion
  15. Bea Medicine
  16. The Beat Movement Rejects Mainstream Values
  17. Beatrix Jones Farrand
  18. Beijing Hosts U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women
  19. Bell Atlantic and TCI Announce Merger Plans
  20. The Bell Curve Raises Charges of Renewed Racism
  21. Bell Labs Develops Photovoltaic Cell
  22. Bell Labs Introduces Electronically Amplified Hearing Aids
  23. Bell Telephone Scientists Develop the Photovoltaic Cell
  24. Ben Nighthorse Campbell
  25. Ben Reifel
  26. Benjamin Spock
  27. Benny Goodman
  28. Berg, Gilbert, and Sanger Develop Techniques for Genetic Engineering
  29. Berkeley Free Speech Movement
  30. Berlin Airlift
  31. Bernstein Joins Symphonic and Jazz Elements in West Side Story
  32. Berry Publishes The Unsettling of America
  33. Berry’s “Maybellene” Popularizes Rock and Roll
  34. Betty Friedan
  35. Bilingual Education Act
  36. Bill Clinton
  37. Bill Russell
  38. Billie Holiday
  39. Billie Jean King
  40. Billy Graham
  41. Billy Mills
  42. Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
  43. Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X Is Assassinated
  44. The Black Panther Party Is Organized
  45. Blacklisting Seriously Depletes Hollywood’s Talent Pool
  46. The Blue Lake Region in New Mexico is Returned to the Taos Pueblo
  47. Bob Dole
  48. Bobby Jones
  49. The Boeing 707 Begins Commercial Service
  50. Bombing