My American Experience
We invite you to tell us your own stories - whether you lived through a tumultuous time period or learned about it from a relative, a book or a movie.
Share Your Story-
Introduction:
Tupperware! -
Preview:
Tupperware! Preview -
Photo Gallery:
Tupper's Invention Notebooks -
Timeline:
Women, Work, and Plastics History -
General Article:
Generation T -
Bonus Video:
Jubilee Video: Top 25 -
Bonus Video:
Jubilee Video: Fort Fairlane Giveaway -
Bonus Video:
Jubilee Video: Paint by Numbers -
Bonus Video:
Jubilee Video: Fashion Show -
Bonus Video:
Jubilee Video: Around the World -
Bonus Video:
Gary McDonald, Tupperware Executive -
General Article:
The Rise of American Consumerism -
General Article:
"The Future" in the 1950s -
General Article:
Positive Thinking in America -
General Article:
The Business of Direct Selling -
General Article:
Direct Selling and the American Dream -
General Article:
Women and Work After World War II -
General Article:
Plastics and American Culture After World War II -
General Article:
Selling Tupperware -
General Article:
Tupperware Home Parties and the Jubilees -
Biography:
Earl Silas Tupper -
Biography:
Brownie Wise -
Interview:
Jeffrey Meikle -
Interview:
Elaine Tyler May -
Primary Resources:
The Power of Norman Vincent Peale -
Primary Resources:
Women, Wishes, and Wonder -
Primary Resources:
How to Sell Tupperware -
Primary Resources:
Top 9 Quotes: Brownie and Earl's Aphorisms -
Primary Resources:
Success and Money -
Primary Resources:
Inside the Mind of Hibiscus -
Cast & Crew:
Tupperware! -
Further Reading:
Related Books and Websites -
Transcript:
Program Transcript -
Teacher's Resources:
Teacher's Guide
Other Stories
Topic: Has Tupperware affected you?
What do you think of the Tupperware story? What's your opinion of the postwar consumer boom, the rise of plastics, and other events of the 1950s? Has Tupperware affected you? Share your Tupperware story.

