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HIST 480A: U.S. in the 1960s
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Find It! and Secondary Source Materials
- Find It!Libraries' one-stop search tool for books, journals, articles, videos, sound recordings, digital images and more.
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- America: History & Life with Full TextLiterature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexes 1700 journals, provides full text of 200 titles.
- JSTORPrimarily a journal archive with some current content. If you are looking for current information, you may want to try other databases as well.
- Project MuseHumanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals from several university presses.
Primary Source Materials
- Proquest Historical NewspapersThe complete content of selected newspaper titles: Boston Globe,1872 start date;Chicago Defender,1909-1975; Chicago Tribune, 1849 start date; New York Amsterdam News, 1922-2010; New York Times, 1851 start date; Los Angeles Times, 1881-start date; South China Morning Post, 1903 start date; Times of India, 1838-2010; Wall Street Journal, 1889 start date; Washington Post, 1877-start date.
Set the "Publication Date" field to "Specific date range..." to only get results published in that date range. - Archives UnboundMany resources on the Civil Rights Movement, FBI files and surveillance, Vietnam War and anti-Vietnam movements, U.S. presidencies, and more. These collections will be most useful to you:
*America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War
*Civil Rights & Social Activism in AL: Papers of John LeFlore, 1926-76 and the Records of the Non-Partisan Voters League, 1956-87
*County and Regional Histories & Atlases: New York, 1804-1966
*Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activist, Political Activist, and Woman
*FBI Files: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
*FBI Files: American POWs/MIAs in Southeast Asia
*FBI Files: Hollywood and J. Edgar Hoover: Communists in the Motion Picture Industry
*FBI Files: War on Poverty: Office of Civil Rights, 1965-1968
*FBI Files: Watergate
*FBI Files: We We Prepared for the Possibility of Death, Freedom Riders in the South, 1961-1962
*FBI Surveillance of James Forman and SNCC
*Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
*Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984
*Federal Surveillance of the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (P.R. Independence Party)
*Fight For Racial Justice And The Civil Rights Congress
*Hollywood, Censorship, and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968
*Integration of Alabama Schools and the U.S. Military, 1963
*International Women’s Movement: The Pan Pacific Southeast Asia Women’s Association of the USA, 1950-1985 *James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi
*JFK’s Foreign Affairs and International Crises, 1961-1963
*Johnson Administration and Foreign Affairs
*Legal Battle for Civil Rights in AL: Vernon Z. Crawford Records, 1958-78 Civil Rights Cases
*Minutemen, 1963-1969: Evolution of the Militia Movement in America, Part I
*National Farm Worker Ministry: Mobilizing Support for Migrant Workers, 1939-1985
*Nixon Administration and Foreign Affairs
*Observer: News for the American Soldier in Vietnam, 1962-1973
*Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
*Papers of the Nixon Administration: The President’s Confidential and Subject Special Files, 1969-1974
*Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters
*Quest For Labor Equality In Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
*Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
*Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial
*U.S. Military Activities & Civil Rights: Integration of University of MS Use of Military Force, 1961-63
*U.S. Military Activities & Civil Rights: The Little Rock Integration Crisis, 1957-1958
*U.S. Military Activities & Civil Rights: Military Response to March on Washington, 1963
*Women Organizing Transnationally: The Committee of Correspondence, 1952-1969 - Proquest History VaultDocuments that cover the Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle, Women's Studies and Rights, American Politics (1960-1975), and the Vietnam War. These collections will be especially useful to you:
*NAACP Papers
*Struggle for Women' Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990
*Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights
*American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate (1960-1975)
*Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975 - HeinOnline John F. Kennedy Assassination CollectionContains the National Archives and Records Administration's complete collection of records on President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Also included are books, hearings, other related works, and scholarly articles on this topic.
- Nexis UniPrimarily for business and legal sources related to the period, including articles and data on businesses, corporations, industries and markets in the U.S. and abroad; magazines and trade journals; biographical information and special directories; legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present. News sources only date back to the 1970s.