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 1960s – R 973.923 H6738
The Johnson Years – R 973.923 P1162 j
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
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 17,400 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 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 Ten Thousand Day War : Vietnam, 1945-1975 – floor 2 – 959.7043 M1632 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
The Vietnam War – floor 2 – 959.7043 P3977 v
War without Fronts : The American Experience in Vietnam – floor 2 – 959.7043 T3735 w

To find other relevant books, do a subject search using specific SUBJECT headings such as:
     Nineteen Sixties
     Vietnamese Conflict 1961-1975     

You can also put in names of specific people or events in a keyword search. Pay attention as well to other headings given to books you find on your topic. Also browse the shelf area where you find books on your subject.

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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.