History 333 (1960 - 1975)

The Sixties and the Vietnam Era


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Reference (print)


The ABC - CLIO companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America – R  973.923 H2193 a
American Decades (1960-1969 and 1970-1979) – R 973.92 A512
Annals of America –  vols. 18-20 (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 JFK Assassination – R 973.922 B4746 e
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War –  vols. 1-3 – R 959.703 E564
Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 – R 305.420973 F3295
Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War – R 959.70434 S9553 h
Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era – R 973.92 B9676 h
Historical Dictionary of the 1960s – R 973.923 H6738
The Johnson Years – R 973.923 P1162 j
The Kennedy Years – R 973.922 S6195 k, 2004
The Nixon-Ford Years – R 973.924 G8116 n
Postwar America: ...Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History – R 973.92 P8588
The Seventies in America – R 973.924 S4974
The Sixties in America – vols. 1-3 – R 973.92 S625
Social History of the United States – vols. 7-8 – R 306.0973 S6784
Vietnam War – Biographies – vols. 1-2 – R 959.7043 H6555 vw
Watergate: Chronology of a Crisis – R  973.924 C7495 wa


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Reference (online)


American National Biography (also in print) – Portraits of more than 17,000 American men and women.

History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, chronologies, primary sources, maps and charts, and images.

Salem History – Includes the complete content of Milestone Documents, The Decades (an American history series), Great Lives from History (worldwide coverage), and Great Events from History (worldwide coverage).


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Books/Monographs


The following books are non-reference sources that deal broadly with the subject of United States History 1960 - 1975 (sometimes referred to as overviews):

Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s – floor 2M – 306.0973 I312
The 1960s – folio/floor 2 – 973.923 M1883 n
The 1960s Cultural Revolution – floor 2 – 973.92 M1774 n
A People's History of the Vietnam War – floor 2 – 959.7043 N3465 p
The Sixties : Art, Politics, and Media of Our Most Explosive Decade – floor 2M – 306.0973 S6255, 1991
The Sixties Unplugged – floor 2 – 909.826 D3216 s
The Ten Thousand Day War : Vietnam, 1945-1975 – floor 2 – 959.7043 M1632 t
Triumph Forsaken : The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 – floor 2 – 959.7043 M9383 t 
Vietnam, a History – floor 2 – 959.7043373 K185 v
Vietnam and the United States : Origins and Legacy of War – floor 2 – 959.7043 H5862 v
Vietnam War – floor 2 – 959.7043 A5462 v
The Vietnam War – floor 2 – 959.7043 P3977 v
War without Fronts : The American Experience in Vietnam – floor 2 – 959.7043 T3735 w


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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 950 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.

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Web Sites

  
The websites selected here are reliable, relevant sources for researching the subject of United States History 1960 - 1975 and related subjects.  An asterisk (*) indicates a site containing primary source material. 
 
* Civil Rights Collection – The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is produced by WGBH Boston, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. Materials are free but you have to sign up. Features an impressive array of audio, video, and text sources from Frontline and American Experience shows, Eyes on the Prize, and other sources.

* The Wars for Vietnam – 1945-1975 – Overview of war and related events maintained by Vassar College.

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