History 333 (1945 - 1960)
Post-War America
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Reference (print)
American Decades (1950-1959) – R 973.92 A512
Annals of America – vols.16-17 (primary sources) – R 973 A613, 2003
Cold War America, 1946-1990 – R 973.92 G8234 c
The Cold War Presidency: A Documentary History – R 973.92 L2855 c
Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social and Military History – R 909.825 E563
Encyclopedia of the Korean War – vols. 1-3 – R 951.9042 E564
Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era – R 973.918 K654 e
The Fifties in America – R 973.92 F4692
Historical Dictionary of the 1940s – R 909.824 R9886 h
Postwar America: ...Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History – R 973.92 P8588
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Reference (online)
American National Biography (also in print) – Portraits of more than 17,400 American men and women.
Facts on File: World News Digest – Key news information (1940 - present) from more than 100 major newspapers, news magazines, and other periodicals from the U.S. and around the world.
History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, chronologies, primary sources, maps and charts, and images.
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Books/Monographs
The following books are non-reference sources that deal broadly with the subject of United States History 1945 - 1960 (sometimes referred to as overviews):
The Age of Doubt : American Thought and Culture in the 1940s – floor 2 – 973.917 G7342 a
Another Part of the Fifties – floor 2 – 973.92 C3245 a
Beginnings of the Cold War Arms Race – floor 2M – 355.033573 O395 b
By the Bomb's Early Light – floor 2 – 973.92 B7917 b
The Cold War : A New History – floor 2 – 909.825 G1234 c
Deliberate Speed : The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s – floor 2 – 973.921 L6881 d
Drawing the Line : the Korean War, 1950-1953 – floor 2 – 951.9042 W5668 d
The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union... – floor 2M – 327.73047 C9384 f
The Korean War – floor 2 – 951.9042 G8863 k
Lost Revolutions : The South in the 1950s – floor 2 – 975.043 D1847 l
The 1940s – floor 2M – 306.0973 S5665 n
Postwar America: 1945-1971 – floor 2M – 309.1073 Z785 p
A Short History of the Korean War – floor 2 – 951.9042 S8743 s
To find other relevant books, do a subject search using specific SUBJECT headings such as:
Cold War
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Korean War - 1950-1953
Nuclear Warfare
Civil Rights – United States
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Magazines and Newspapers
Below are magazine and newspaper sources that are available in databases online. An asterisk (*) indicates a database containing primary source material.
JSTOR – Full text of more than 750 scholarly journals.
* The Nation Archive – The Nation magazine, 1865 on.
* ProQuest Historical Newspapers – Search the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Daily World, Pittsburgh Courier, and Chicago Defender.
* Readers’ Guide Retrospective – Indexing only (no full-text) for 370 magazines, 1890-1982.
Click here to find if the library has a specific magazine, journal, or newspaper.
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Web Sites
The websites selected here are reliable, relevant sources for researching the subject of United States History 1945 - 1960 and related subjects. An asterisk (*) indicates a site containing primary source material.
* Brave New World: 1945-1961 – PBS – Site probes the changing world order after WWII and the emergence of the Cold War.
* Boomtime: 1945-1973 – PBS – Examines how postwar prosperity transformed lifestyles and cultural values in the United States and abroad.
* Cold War: From Yalta to Malta – CNN – This CNN Perspectives series explores the Cold War experience from many different angles. Included are interactive maps, rare video footage, declassified documents, biographies, picture galleries, timelines, interactive activities, a search function, book excerpts, an educator's guide, and more.
* Fallout: 1945-1999 – PBS – Examines the atomic age in the Cold War era.
* Young Blood: 1950-1975 – PBS – Focus is on the youth movement in America in 1960s.
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