I. Franklin, the Penn Library Catalog

Use Franklin to look for books at the Penn Libraries.

Subject Searches - To search subject headings in Franklin, omit dashes between subheadings but retain hyphens. Here are some relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings:

united states--history--1961-1969
united states--politics and government--
united states--social conditions--1960-
united states--social conditions--1960-1980
nineteen sixties

african americans--
afro-americans--civil rights
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--History civil rights--united states
civil rights movements--
civil rights workers
communal living--united states
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
feminism--
hippies--
Kent State University Riot, May 4, 1970
Presidents--United States--Election--1968
riots--
segregation in education--law and legislation--united states subculture--united states--
vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975--
vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975--protest movements
woodstock (n.y.)
womens rights

"democratic national covention"
brown AND "board of education"
("womens rights" OR feminis?) AND "civil rights"

Primary Sources - Often the following words will be found in the subject headings assigned to works which contain primary source material. Watch for these words when doing subject searches and add them to keyword searches. diaries, personal narratives, correspondence, sources, interviews.

Add the above terms to keyword searches:

"vietnamese conflict" AND "personal narratives"
"civil rights" AND sources

Try author searches for works by famous figures of the time:

Cleaver, Elridge
Guevara, Ernesto
Rubin, Jerry
King, Martin Luther, Jr

For publications from a particular organization, group, or political party, try author searches under the names of the group.

Black Panther Party
National Organization for Women

II. Magazine Articles published during the 1950s-1970s

Holdings - The Library has the printed copies of many popular periodicals from the 1960s. Many of theses are located in the AP2 call number range on the third floor of the Van Pelt Library. Others are only available in Microform.

Holdings and locations of selected popular periodicals:

Ebony

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 167], v1. 1945-present.

Life

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: 051 L627]

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 530], 1936-1972.

Nation

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: ], v.1 (1865)-v.139 (1934).

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 180], v.1 (1865)-present.

National Review

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: AP2 .N3545], v.1 (1955/1956)-v.18 (1966),v.23 (1971), v.42 (1990)-v.52 (2000)

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 216],v.19 (1967)-present.

New Republic

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 37]

Newsweek

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: AP2 .N6772], v.29 (1947)-present.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 388], v.1 (1933)-present.

Rolling Stone

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 422], no.1, 1967-present.

Time

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: AP2 .T37], v.14 (1929)-present.

[Van Pelt Library: Microfilm cont 389], v.1 (1923)-present.

U.S. News and World Report

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 615], v.1 (1933)-v.63 (1967).

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: JK1 .U65], v.64 (1968)-present.

Village Voice

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 158], 1955 - present, some years incomplete.

Indexes - The majority of the online indexes to do not index works published in the 1960s. For popular magazine coverage of events, look at the Reader's Guide. The Social Sciences Index can be used to located scholarly journals written in the 1960s.

Readers' Guide Retrospective.

Provides indexing to popular periodicals. Currently the retrospective file covers 1963-1982. For the fifties and early sixties, consult the printed version of Readers' Guide below.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. 1900-present.

[Van Pelt Reference: AI3 R48]

Library has: 1900-

Covers popular reading magazines such as Time, and Newsweek. Subject headings change over time. Here are some relevant subject headings used in the Reader's Guide during the 1960s.

Social Sciences Index. 1907-present.

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: AI3 .R49].

Library has: 1907-1993

Other titles: Social sciences and humanities index, International index to periodicals.

III. Newspapers from the 1950-70s

Currently there are few sources which index newspapers from the 1960s. There is a complete index for the New York Times. The Library also has some other relevant newspapers on microfilm. See below. Individual Newspapers

The New York Times.

A searchable, full-text version of the New York Times from 1851 to 1999. The Library also has the microfilm version of the NYT at [Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm news 52] and a printed index [Van Pelt Reference: AI21 .N44]. References from the index provide date, section, page, and column.

The Birmingham News [microform].

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Film news 636], 1954-1955, 1963-1964.

Philadelphia Inquirer Public Ledger.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: microfilm news 61], Apr.16 1934-Dec.1951, Feb.1952-Dec.11 1969 - present.

Called Philadlephia Inquirer from 1969 to the present.

Philadelphia Tribune.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: microfilm news 407], 1912 - present.

St. Louis Post Dispatch. (St. Lous, Missouri)

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: microfilm news 63], 1953-1979.

Washington Post.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: microfilm news 256], 1967 - present.

Black Panther. (Oakland, CA.)

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: microfilm news 425], 1967 - 1980.

Earlier years are part of the Underground Newspaper Collection.

Underground Press Collection.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: microfilm news 270], 473 reels.

See the Listing of Contents for titles in the microform collection [Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: AI3 .U54].

IV. Indexes for Articles ABOUT the Sixties

Multidisciplinary

Academic Index.

Covers 1980 (very incomplete) - present.

Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 1550 scholarly and general interest journals. Full text or full image is provided for more than 750 titles (most of which are from mid-1990's to present). Although not comprehensive for history, numerous history journals are indexed here; some are full-text. Academic Index is also good for book reviews of recent titles.

Periodicals Contents Index.

1770-1990/1991

Includes citations to many journals in the humanities and social sciences.

A good tool for finding contemporary narrative accounts and older book reviews.

U.S. History

America: History & Life.

Covers U.S. and Canadian history. You can limit your search by decade; to do so add 1960D to the time period field on the search screen.

Art, Literature, Music

Art Index.

Art. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Covers 1984 to the present. For earlier years see: Art Index, [Fine Arts Library Reference: Z 5937 .A78], 1929-1992.

MLA International Bibliography.

The major index for literary criticism, language, folklore. Cites journal articles, selected books and dissertations. Coverage begins with 1963. Strong source for material relating to travel literature or to the treatment of travel in literature. See also for cultural theory, treatment of culture in literatures, cultural encounters, etc.

Music Index.

Music Index Online draws its current contents from more than 640 international music periodicals. Covers 1979 to the present. For earlier years, see Music Index, [Van Pelt Library Marian Anderson Music Study Center: ML118 .M84]

Public Policy / Politics

PAIS.

Covers public affairs and policy issues relating to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, education, health, environment, public administration, law and legislation, and international relations. Covers 1972 to the present. For earlier years see: PAIS Bulletin (name varies), [Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: JA 1 .P357], 1915 -

Sociology and Culture/Ethnic/Gender Issues

Sociological Abstracts.

Index to journals, books, and conference papers in sociology. Includes significant coverage of historical topics and events from a sociological perspective.

Hispanic American Periodical Index.

Chicano Database

The Chicano Database identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. Updated quarterly, the Chicano Database provides extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s.

Index to Black periodicals. 1984- . Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co.

[Van Pelt Reference: AI3 O4]

Continues: Index to periodical articles by and about Blacks. (Van Pelt: AI3 .O4 1966-1969). An even earlier title, Index to selected periodicals, indexes articles between 1961-1965 (Van Pelt: AI3 .O4)

Studies on Women Abstracts. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Carfax Pub. Co. Vol. 1- , 1983- .

[Van Pelt Reference: HQ1180 .S78]

Women Studies Abstracts. NY: Rush Pub., Vol. 1- ,1972- .

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: HQ1101 .W653]

V. Reference Works - Chronologies, Biography, and Topical Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Bibliographies

A look at the Decade - Chronologies and Facts

American Decades. edited by Vincent Tompkins. Detroit : Gale Research, c1994-c1996.

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: E169.12 .A419] See the volumes for 1960-1969 and 1970-1979.

American Chronicle: year by year Through the Twentieth century. Lois Gordon and Alan Gordon. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c1999.

[Van Pelt Library Reference: E169.1 .G664 1999]

Facts on File.

[Van Pelt Reference Stacks: D410 .F3] v.6 (1946)-v.44 (1984),v.46 (1986)-v.59 (1999)

Chronology of events. See the volumes for the 1960s.

McCleary, John Bassett. The Hippie Dictionary: a Cultural Encyclopedia (and Phraseicon) of the 1960s and 1970s. Berkeley, CA : Ten Speed Press, c2002.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: HQ799.7 .M28 2002]

Historical Dictionary of the 1960s. Edited by James S. Olson. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1999. [Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E841 H58 1999]

Atlas of the Baby Boom Generation. Neil A. Hamilton ... [et al.]. Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E741 .A88 2000]

Biography

Leaders from the 1960s: a Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: HN59 .L32 1994]

Civil Rights

Civil Rights in the United States. edited by Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2000.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E184.A1 C47 2000], v. 1-2.

Murray, Paul T. The Civil Rights Movement: References and Resources. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E185.61 .M975 1993]

Court Cases

Historic U.S. Court Cases: an Encyclopedia. John W. Johnson, editor. 2nd edition. New York : Routledge, 2001.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: KF385.A4 J64 2001], v. 1-2.

Great American Court cases. Mark Mikula and L. Mpho Mabunda, editors. Detroit : Gale Group, c1999.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: KF385.A4 G68 1999], v. 1-4.

Culture and Society

McWilliams, John C. The 1960s Cultural Revolution. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E841 .M37 2000]

The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America. Neil A. Hamilton. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1997.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: E169.02 .H3515 1997]

The 1960s: an Annotated Bibliography of Social and Political movements in the United States. Rebecca Jackson. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: HN59 .J34 1992]

Vietnam War

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a Political, Social, and Military History. Spencer C. Tucker, Editor. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: DS557.7 .E53 1998]

Burns, Richard Dean.The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: a bibliographic guide. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, c1984

[Van Pelt Library Reference: DS557.7 .B88 1984]

Peake, Louis A. The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975: a selected annotated bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1986.

[Van Pelt Library Reference: DS558 .P43 1986]

Those Who Were There: Eyewitness accounts of the war in Southeast Asia, 1956-1975 & aftermath: annotated bibliography of books, articles & topic-related magazines, covering writings both factual & imaginative. Paradise, CA: DustBooks, 1984.

[Van Pelt Library Reference: DS559.5 .T56 1984]

The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.

[Van Pelt Library Reference: DS558 .V58 1993]

Women's Movement, Feminism

Buhle, Mari Jo. Women and the American left: a guide to sources. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, c1983.

[Van Pelt Reference: HQ1420 .B95 1983]

See especially the section for 1965-1981, pp. 195-246.

Nordquist, Joan. The feminist movement: a bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1992.

[Van Pelt Reference: HQ1150 .N67 1992]

Ryan, Barbara. The women's movement: references and resources. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996.

[Van Pelt Reference: HQ1236.5.U6 R93 1996]

VI. Selected Primary Sources Collections at Penn

In addition to the newspaper and periodical articles indexes described above, the Library houses other types of primary source material:

A. Autobiography, Personal Writings

Be sure to check all relevant figures as authors in Franklin. The Library has many bibliographies of published diaries, among them are:

Brignano, Russell C. Black Americans in autobiography; an annotated bibliography of autobiographies and autobiographical books written since the Civil War.

[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks:

B. Speeches

Vital Speeches of the Day. New York, The City News Pub. Co.

[Van Pelt Library: PN6121 .V52], v.1 (1934/1935) - .

Speech Index.

[Van Pelt Library Reference: AI3.S85]

Voices of Multicultural America: notable speeches delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995. Deborah Gillan Straub, editor. New York : Gale Research, c1996.

[Annenberg Library Reference: PS663.M55 V64 1996]

A Call to Conscience: the Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shephard. New York : Intellectual Properties Management, Inc. in association with Warner Books, c2001.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: E185.97.K5 A5 2001]

Kennedy, Robert. RFK: Collected Speeches. Edited and introduced by Edwin Guthman and C. Richard Allen New York : Viking, 1993.

[Van Pelt Library Stacks: E840.8 .K4 1993]

C. Presidential Papers

Public papers of the presidents of the United States.. Washington : Federal Register Division, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration ; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.,

[Van Pelt Library: J80 .A283]

Contains the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President. Set includes Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. For additional works by the presidents, including published correspondence, remember to search under the names of the presidents as authors.

D. Microform Collections

Facts on film. May 1954-Dec. 1973.

Reproduces the unique collection of materials on race relations assembled in the Library of the Southern Education Reporting Service based in Nashville, Tennessee. Includes the Southern School News, transcripts of U.S. Supreme Court hearings, newspaper editorials from southern papers, newspaper clippings by subject and by state, pamphlets, and miscellaneous materials.

[Van Pelt Microforms: Microfilm cont 127]

Reel Index in Microforms at E185.61 F165]

FBI file on Malcolm X [microform]. Wilmington, DE : Scholarly Resources, [1995?]

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm 4354], reel 1-10 + guide.

Herstory. 90 reels.

Contains women's periodicals from the International Women's History Periodical Archive.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm cont 319]

"Table of contents" shelved at Microforms service desk.

Papers of the NAACP.

"Part 20: White resistence and reprisals, 1956-1965." 15 reels.

[Microfilm 4296 Part 20]

"Part 21: relations with the modern civil rights movement, 1956-1965." 22 reels.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm 4296 Part 21]

Civil Rights During the Nixon Administration, 1969-1974 [microform]. Frederick, MD : University Publications of America, c1989-.

[Van Pelt Library Microforms: Microfilm 4303]

Civil Rights during the Johnson Administration [microform]: a Collection from the Holdings of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, c1984-c1987.

[Van Pelt Library Microforms: Microfilm 3948]

Underground Press Collection.

[Van Pelt Library Microtext: microfilm news 270], 473 reels.

See the Listing of Contents for titles in the microform collection [Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: AI3 .U54].

VII. Internet Sites

Sixties Project

Includes a wide range of materials, including the Personal Narrative Project.

Black Panther Newspaper Collection

Selected articles from the Black Panther.

Free Speech Movement, Student Protest U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65

Includes oral histories, journals, legal proceedings, contemporaneous journalism, FSM newsletters, books, pamphlets, minutes of meetings, government documents, and more.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project - Stanford University

May 4th Collections - Department of Special Collections & Archives, Kent State University

Includes Oral History Project.

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