This library research guide was designed for the Society, Culture and Politics in the 1960s course, taught by Dr. Julia Mickenberg.
On This Guide
Find instructions on how and where to find background information, scholarly sources and primary sources.
View "Campus and Local Archives" to read more on visiting local archives in-person and viewing their digital collections online.
Under "More Help", you'll also find other important information about library services, citation help and writing support.
Research Help
Your course librarian, Adriana, is available for one-on-one research appointments to help you with your research. Contact her via email with questions or schedule an appointment using the links to the right.
Through letters, diaries, memoirs, oral histories; accounts from official, radical, and alternative organizations; posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare materials, the collection tells the story of the 60s.
To find videos: Visit this Browse page to view video content. You can also do an "Advanced Search" and check the box next to "Format" to only select video results.
Documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America. Through letters, diaries, memoirs, oral histories; accounts from official, radical, and alternative organizations; posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare materials, the collection tells the story of the 60s. Themes include: civil rights, counter-culture, mass and underground media, sexual revolution, student activism, the Vietnam War, and women's rights.
Contains citations with abstracts to social science and humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
Updated regularly. Contains citations with abstracts to social science and humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present. Covers books, book reviews, journals and dissertations. Also reviews films and video projects. The database corresponds to the print America: History and Life, which is produced by ABC-CLIO. The database covers history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities.
Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
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