War of the Worlds
Fear of Invasion

Resources:

Web Page Evaluation

• Checklist for an Informational Web Page, http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/inform.htm

A. The Orson Wells Broadcast

• The Mercury Theatre - MP3 Radio Broadcast, http://www.forwiss.uni-erlangen.de/~uhschreg/sounds/mp3/The%20War%20of%20the%20Worlds/The%20War%20of%20the%20Worlds.html
• Radio's War of the Worlds Broadcast (1938), http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/wotw.html
• Study Guide for War of the Worlds, http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/warofworlds.html
• Science Fiction on Radio: War of the Worlds, http://www.mtn.org/~jstearns/wow.html
• 1938 "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Script, http://web2.airmail.net/lgroebe/waroftheworlds.htm
• 1938 "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Wavs, http://earthstation1.simplenet.com/wotw.html
• History of the War of the Worlds, http://incolor.inetnebr.com/wotw/Radio
• Classic Sci-Fi, http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue38/classic.html
• War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast, http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/SETI/HISTORY/wells.html
• SCI-FI Road Trips, http://www.towson.edu/~flynn/martian.html
• Map of Mercer County, New Jersey, http://members.aol.com/ERIK1075/IAFF/wherewe.htm

B. Fear of Hitler - Nazi Invasion of the U.S.

• History Place Timeline of Europe in War War II, http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htmI
• Hitler Declares War on U.S.,
• http://members.aol.com/POESGIRL/Hitlerdow.htm
• History Place Holocaust Timeline, http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
• History Place Rise of Hitler, http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler
• Cult Techniques of Coercive Persuasion http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~acollins/techniques.html#Dress
• The History Place Hitler Youth: Prelude to War 1933-1938, http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-prelude.htm

C. Science Fiction - H.G. Wells

• War of the Worlds etext, http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html
• SF and the race between education and catastrophe, http://www.globalideasbank.org/1993/1993-155.HTML
• H.G.Wells: "The Time Machine": A Comparison of the Book and the Film, in terms of the Social and Cultural Background of the Time, http://www.clarndon.demon.co.uk/wells.htm
• H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells (1866-1946),
• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hgwells.htm
• Science fiction: H.G. Wells and other modern writers, http://www.hku.hk/physics/public_html/seti/05scifi.html
• Works of H.G. Wells, http://www.literature.org/Works/H-G-Wells
• Brief Biography of H.G. Wells, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8169/index.htm
• The Mercury Theatre - MP3 Radio Broadcast, http://www.forwiss.uni-erlangen.de/~uhschreg/sounds/mp3/The%20War%20of%20the%20Worlds/The%20War%20of%20the%20Worlds.html

D. Radio As a Trusted Friend:

• History of Radio, http://www.old-time.com/halper00.html
• Old Time Radio, http://www.microserve.com/~dave/otr_top.html
• The Original Old Time Radio WWW Pages, http://www.old-time.com/
• The History of Broadcasting, 1920-1960, http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mbensman/history1.html
• Jeff Miller's Broadcasting History Pages, Jeff Miller's Broadcasting History Pages
• Radio and Television History Sites, http://www.rtvf.unt.edu/links/histsites.htm

E. The Power of Suggestion, Hysteria, and Conspiracies

• The Media History Project, http://www.mediahistory.com/radio.html
• The Intergalactic UFO Network, http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9653/index.html
• Mars Chronology., http://humbabe.arc.nasa.gov/mgcm/fun/mars_chro.html
• The Conspiracy Hell Update, http://home.pacbell.net/slamnan/hellupdate.html
• CUFOs: Roswell, The Whole Story, http://www.cufos.org/ros2.html
• Received…and Deceived, http://www.infosecuritymag.com/sept/cover.htm
• NASA Home Page, http://www.nasa.gov/
• NASA Space Science News, http://www.science-news.com/
• Y2K News Magazine, http://y2knews.com/
• The Lion King WWW Archive: Protest Against Microsoft, http://www.lionking.org/protest.html
• A Microsoft monopoly or a standard contract?http://www2.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/info/041298/info14_10789_noframes.html

F. Science and Technology Behind "War of the Worlds"

• The Technology, http://incolor.inetnebr.com/wotw/Technology/
• The Invasions, http://incolor.inetnebr.com/wotw/Invasions/
• The Expanding Universe of Lasers, http://caleng.berkeley.edu/issues/1997/december/lasers.html
• FLORIDA TODAY Space Online , http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/stories/1996b/111196a.htm
• The Red Planet: A Quick Summary..., http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/~brian/astro/chp26.htm
• Mars Chronology., http://humbabe.arc.nasa.gov/mgcm/fun/mars_chro.html,
• NASA Home Page, http://www.nasa.gov/

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