Subject Guides: America in the Stormy Sixties: Welcome

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Use this guide to find resources on the 1960s. This page covers general resources while the tabs focus on specific aspects of that turbulent decade. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us via phone, email, text, chat, or in person.

Books

The 1960s by Brian Ward (Editor)
Call Number: E838.3 .A155 2010
ISBN: 9781405163293
Publication Date: 2009-11-02
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America in White, Black, and Gray by Klaus P. Fischer
Call Number: E841 .F49 2006
ISBN: 9780826418166
Publication Date: 2006-04-18
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American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley
Call Number: TL789.8.U5 B73 2019b
ISBN: 9780062655066
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
American Patriotism, American Protest by Simon Hall
Call Number: HN59 .H235 2011
ISBN: 9780812242959
Publication Date: 2010-12-07
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The Birth of Loud by Ian S. Port
Call Number: ML1015.G9 P66 2019
ISBN: 9781501141652
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Black Power by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Call Number: E185.615 .O34 2019
ISBN: 9781421429762
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
Buying Gay by David K. Johnson
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 J583 2019
ISBN: 9780231189101
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
Containment and Credibility by Pat Proctor
Call Number: DS558.2 .P76 2016
ISBN: 9781631440564
Publication Date: 2016-11-22
Generation on Fire by Jeff Kisseloff
Call Number: E840.6 .K57 2007
ISBN: 9780813124162
Publication Date: 2006-12-29
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Great Society by Amity Shlaes
Call Number: E841 .S468 2019
ISBN: 0061706426
Publication Date: 2019-11-19
A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music by Dick Weissman
Call Number: ML3550 .W45 2020
ISBN: 9781501344145
Publication Date: 2019-09-05
Protest! by Liz McQuiston
Call Number: N72.P6 M37 2019
ISBN: 9780691198330
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
Call Number: TL862.J48 H65 2016
ISBN: 9780316338929
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Takin' It to the Streets by Alexander Bloom; Wini Breines
Call Number: E841 .T28 2011
ISBN: 9780195368352
Publication Date: 2010-11-03
What Really Happened to the 1960S by Edward P. Morgan
Call Number: HN59 .M65 2010
ISBN: 9780700617562
Publication Date: 2010-11-18
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The Sixties

Databases

Locate articles using these online databases.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for 4000 academic social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.

Baltimore Sun, Historical
The Historical Baltimore Sun (1837-1985) offers full page and article images with searchable full text dating back to its first issue.
Credo Reference
Offers full-text content from encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesuari, and covers such subjects as art, history, literature, medicine, technology and more.
Ethnic News Watch
Provides a rich collection of articles, editorials and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and minority press.
GenderWatch
A full text database focusing on the impact of gender in many subject areas. Emphasis is placed on the women's movement and changes in gender roles. Archived to 1970, included are scholarly journals as well as public periodicals and government reports.

Historical New York Times (1851 - 2006) This link opens in a new window
The Historical New York Times (1851-2006) offers full page and article images with searchable full text dating back to its first issue.
History Reference Source This link opens in a new window
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the archives of over 390 academic journals in the arts and sciences.