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History 256: The 1960s, An Explosive Decade
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Spring 2007 — Prof. Levering
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Questions? Contact Susanna Boylston (704-894-2494).
- Reference Works
Style Guides | Biographical Sources | General Works on the 1960s | African Americans | | Civil Rights | The Cold War | Vietnam | Women
- Style Guides
- Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003.
Reference R 808.02 C53 2003
- A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Mary Lynn Rampolla. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007.
Reference Desk R 907.2 R177p
- Biographical Works
- African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Dorothy C. Salem. New York: Garland, 1993.
Reference R 920.7 A77a
- American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002.
Reference R 920.073 A512
- American Women Civil Rights Activists: Biobibliographies of 68 Leaders, 1825-1992. Gayle J. Hardy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.
Reference R 923.6 H269a
- Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
- Black Women in America. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
Reference R 920.7 B6271 2005
- Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. Ed. David DeLeon. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.
Reference R 923.2 L434
- The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 1960s. Ed. William L. O'Neill. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003.
Reference R 920.073 S434
- General Works on the 1960s
- The 1960s: An Annotated Bibliography of Social and Political Movements in the United States. Rebecca Jackson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
Reference R 016.3 J13n
- The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Reference R 973.923 H219a
- The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s. David Farber and Beth Bailey. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2001.
Reference R 973.923 C726
- Day by Day: The Sixties. Thomas Parker, Jr. 2 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1983.
Reference R 909.82 F142d 1960
- Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003.
Reference R 973 D554 2003
- Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter Williams. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001.
Reference R 973.04 E564
- Encyclopedia of American Social History. Ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton et al. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1993.
Reference R 301.097 E56
- Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. Ed. Immanuel Ness. 3 vols. New York: Sharpe Reference, 2004.
Reference R 303.484 E56
- Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996.
Reference R 973.03 E562
- Gale Virtual Reference Library: History Resources
A collection of electronic reference books.
- Historical Dictionary of the 1960s. Ed. James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
Reference R 973.923 H673
- John F. Kennedy: A Bibliography. Comp. James N. Giglio. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
Reference R 016.973 K35g
- The Sixties in America. Ed. Carl Singleton. 3 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999.
Reference R 973.92 S6252
- African Americans
- The African American Encyclopedia. Ed. Michael W. Williams. 6 vols. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993.
Reference R 973.049 A258
Supplement (2 vols.; 1997): Reference R 973.049 A258 Supp.
- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
Reference R 909.04 A2581
- The Black Aesthetic Movement. Ed. Jeffrey Louis Decker. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1991. [vol. 8 of Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series]
Reference R 928.1 D554d v.8
- The Black New Yorkers: The Schomburg Illustrated Chronology. Howard Dodson et al. New York: Wiley, 2000.
Reference R 974.7 D647b
- Black/White Relations in American History: An Annotated Bibliography. Leslie V. Tischauser. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
Reference R 016.3 T611b
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Colin Palmer. 6 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
- Free at Last: A Bibliography of Martin Luther King, Jr. William H. Fisher. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1977.
Reference R 016.32 K53f
- The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Ed. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001.
Reference R 973.04 H3391
- Civil Rights
- The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. Paul T. Murray. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993.
Reference R 016.323 M983c
- Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Ed. Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek. New York: Greenwood, 1992.
Reference R 305.8 E561
- Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights & Liberties. Ed. Otis Stephens et al. 3 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006.
Reference R 342.73 E561
- The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Ed. David Bradley and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. 3 vols. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Reference R 323.1 E56
- The Cold War
- Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront. Ed. John P. Resch. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005.
Reference R 973 A5122
- The Cold War, 1945-1991. Ed. Benjamin Frankel. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992- .
Reference R 923.2 A211c
- Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts, 1945-1990. Richard A. Schwartz. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
Reference R 973.92 S399c
- The Cold War Encyclopedia. Thomas Parrish. New York: H. Holt, 1996.
Reference R 909.82 P261c
- The Cold War Reference Guide: A General History and Annotated Chronology with Selected Biographies. Richard Alan Schwartz. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.
Reference R 909.82 S399c
- The Columbia Guide to the Cold War. Michael Kort. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1998.
Reference R 909.82 K85c
- Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Thomas S. Arms. New York: Facts on File, 1994.
Reference R 909.82 A734e
- Vietnam
- Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront. Ed. John P. Resch. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005.
Reference R 973 A5122
- American Writers of the Vietnam War. Ed. Ronald Baughman. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1991. [vol. 9 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series]
Reference R 928.1 D554d v.9
- The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War. David L. Anderson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2002.
Reference R 959.704 A546c
- Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
Reference R 959.7 D554
- Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. New York: Scribner's, 1996.
Reference R 959.704 E56
- Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Ed. Spencer C. Tucker. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: 1998.
Reference R 959.704 E561
- Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Edwin E. Moïse. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2001.
Reference R 959.704 M714h
- Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. Bruce Lockhart and William Duiker. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006.
Reference R 959.7 L816h
- Quotations on the Vietnam War. Ed. Gregroy R. Clark. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.
Reference R 959.704 Q9
- The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films. Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
Reference R 959.704 H655v
- The Vietnam War, an Almanac. Ed. John S. Bowman. New York: World Almanac, 1985.
Reference R 959.7 V666
- War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
Reference R 973 W253
- Words of the Vietnam War. Gregory R. Clark. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.
Reference R 427 C593w
- Women
- Encyclopedia of Women and Gender. Ed. Judith Worell. 2 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001.
Reference R 305.4 E56
- Encyclopedia of Women's History in America. Kathryn Cullen-DuPont. 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
Reference R 305.4 C967e
- Handbook of American Women's History. Ed. Angela Howard Zophy. New York: Garland, 1990.
Reference R 305.4 H236
- Historical Dictionary of Feminism. Janet Boles and Diane Long Hoeveler. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004.
Reference R 305.42 B688h
- Primary Sources
General Search Tools | Government Documents | Periodicals | Other Examples
- General Search Tools
- Library Catalog
To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:
- sources
- correspondence
- diaries
- personal narratives
- pictorial works
For more details, see below.
- WorldCat
To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:
- sources
- correspondence
- diaries
- personal narratives
- pictorial works
Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format.
For more details, see below.
- Government Documents
- Digital National Security Archive
Contains over 61,000 declassified U.S. government foreign policy documents dating from the mid to the late twentieth century. Includes:
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
- U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
- U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975
These documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are drawn from the collections of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
- Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room, from the FBI
Contains the full text of many historical FBI records released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Includes records about people, such as Abbie Hoffman, organizations, such as the The Black Panther Party in Winston Salem, NC, and notable events, such as the riots at Kent State University in 1970.
- Documents on Disarmament – AC 1.11/2: 1960-
- Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1861- .
Government Information Stacks S1.1 (Some volumes are online)
- American Foreign Policy S 1.71/2:
- The John F. Kennedy National Security Files, U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, 1961-1963 [microfilm]
Microfilm cabinet C-17
- The John F. Kennedy National Security Files, Vietnam, 1961-1963 [microfilm]
Microfilm cabinet C-17
Guide: Reference R 016.9597 G946
- LexisNexis Congressional
Indexes congressional documents published from 1789 to the present.
Note: Most of the full-text documents in LexisNexis Congressional date from the late 1980s to the present. Many of the older documents indexed by LexisNexis Congressional can be found in the United States Congressional Serial Set. The Davidson College Library has many volumes of the Serial Set, including the following:
- A selection of print volumes from the 79th Congress (1945-1946) through the 85th Congress (1956-1958) [incomplete]
The Serial Set volumes are shelved at the end of the Government Information Stacks, near the 24-Hour Room
- 86th Congress (1958-59) through the 91st Congress (1969-71) [microfiche]
Microfiche cabinet B-9
- 92nd Congress (1971-1972) through the 95th Congress (1977-1978)
The Serial Set volumes are shelved at the end of the Government Information Stacks, near the 24-Hour Room
If you need documents from volumes that are not in our collection, please let us know; we can borrow these volumes from another library for you.
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an exclamation point
- Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
- Wildcard: use an asterisk *
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
- John F. Kennedy
Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1961 through GS 4.113: 1963
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1963-64 through GS 4.113: 1968-69
- Richard M. Nixon
Government Information Stacks GS 4.113: 1969 through GS 4.113: 1974
- United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Mary Ellen Huls. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
Reference R 016.305 H917u
- Periodicals
Magazines | Newspapers
- Magazines & Contemporary Journals
Magazines in the Little Library | Indexes to Magazines
- Magazines in the Little Library
The Library has many periodicals from the 1960s, including:
- Crisis
Microfilm cabinet C-12: 1959-1975
- Dissent
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1954 to present
- Ebony
Microfilm cabinet C-13: 1954-1963
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1964 to present
- Life
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1936-1972
Microfilm cabinet C-15: 1936-1972
- The Nation
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1880 to present
- National Review
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1955 to present
- New Republic
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1916 to present
- New Yorker
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1939 to present
- Newsweek
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1936 to present
Microfilm cabinet C-27: 1933 to present
- Time
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1924 to present
Microfiche cabinet A-2: 1923 to present
- U.S. News & World Report
Little Library Bound Periodicals: 1950 to present
Microfilm cabinet C-40: 1933 to present
- ...and many others. See 20th Century Popular Magazines for more information.
- Indexes to Magazines & Contemporary Journals
- Index to Black Periodicals (1950 to present)
Reference Index Area R 050 I382 and R 050 I383
Previous titles of this index include Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks, Index to Periodical Articles by and about Negroes, and Index to Selected
Periodicals Received in the Hallie Q. Brown Library.
- The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986. 5 vols. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1992.
Reference R 016.973 K13
- PAIS International
(1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
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- Phrase searching: automatic
- Wildcard: use a question mark ?
- Periodicals Index Online
(c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: automatic
- Readers' Guide Abstracts
(1890 to present) Indexes articles in popular periodicals; also includes citations to book and film reviews.
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- Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
- Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
- Newspapers
Newspapers in the Little Library | Other Newspapers
- Newspapers in the Little Library
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Microfilm (1868 to present): microfilm cabinets C-2 through C-6
- Charlotte Observer
Microfilm (1892 to present): microfilm cabinets C-8, C-8a, C-8b, C-9
- The Christian Science Monitor
Microfilm (1954 to present): microfilm cabinet C-11
Index (1954-1992): Reference Index Area R 070 C555
- New York Times
Online (1851-2004): Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
Microfilm (1851 to present): Microfilm cabinets C-20 through C-26
Index (1851 to present): Reference Index Area R 071 N53
Personal Name Index: Reference Index Area 071 N53p
- News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Microfilm (1894-1977, 1994 to present): microfilm cabinets C-29 through C-30
- The Times [London]
Microfilm (1785 to present): microfilm cabinets C-35 through C-37
Index: Reference Index Area R 070 T58
- The Wall St. Journal
Microfilm (1961 to present): microfilm cabinet C-42
Index (1961-2003): Reference Index Area R 071 W187
- The Washington Post
Microfilm (1877 to present): microfilm cabinets C-43, C45, and C46
- ...and many others. See 20th Century Newspapers for more information.
- Other Newspapers
- Other Examples
- American Memory, from the Library of Congress
- The American Radicalism Collection [microfilm]
Microfilm cabinet D-51
Contains reproductions of pamphlets, broadsides, newsletters, program notices, clippings, and unpublished writings from the American Radicalism Collection in the Michigan State University Library's Special Collections Division. The microfilm collection is in four parts:
Part 1: Leftist Politics and Anti-War Movements
Part 2: The Religious and Radical Right
Part 3: Race, Gender, and the Struggle for Justice and Equal Rights
Part 4: Twentieth-Century Social, Economic, and Environmental Movements
Guides: Reference R 322.4 A512
- ARTstor
A collection of over 500,000 images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods as well as tools to manipulate and analyze those images. For technical requirements, see the Quick Start Guide.
- CAMIO: The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
A collection of over 80,000 images of fine and decorative artworks dating from prehistoric times to the present.
- The Gallup Brain
(1935 to present) Contains the Gallup Poll Public Opinion surveys, including more than 125,000 questions and responses from over 3.5 million people.
- Guide to African American and African Primary Sources at Harvard University. Barbara A. Burg et al. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 2000.
Reference R 016.96 B954g
- Malcolm X
- FBI File on Malcolm X [microfilm]
Microfilm cabinet C-14
Guide: Reference R 301.45 M243yg
- Transcripts of the Malcolm X Assassination Trial [microfilm]
Microfilm cabinet C-38
Guide: Reference R 301.45 M243yt
- Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI Assassination File [microfilm]
Microfilm cabinet C-19
- Online Collections
- Online Exhibits
- Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Sandra M. Wittman. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1989.
Reference R 016.959 W832w
- Secondary Sources
Books | Articles
- Books
- Library Catalog
Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. - To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first).
- To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.
- To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records.
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- WorldCat
Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalog first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.
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- Articles
- America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
(Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
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- Contemporary Women's Issues
(1992 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, books, newsletters, and reports on all aspects of women's studies, including gender, sociology, education, political science, and health.
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- Essay & General Literature Index
(1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
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- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
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- JSTOR
Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note:JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
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- PAIS International
(1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
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- Phrase searching: automatic
- Wildcard: use a question mark ?
- Periodicals Index Online
(c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
Search Syntax:
- Truncation: use an asterisk *
- Phrase searching: automatic
- Project Muse
Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
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- Social Sciences Abstracts
(1907 to present) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
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- Women Studies Abstracts
Reference Index Area R 050 W872
(1972 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, and books on all aspects of women's studies, including history, education, gender, literature, religion, and art.
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