Recommended Reading 
Books in the Short Loan Collection and electronic readings for this course are available by searching Readings & Exams.
Recommended Texts
- Anderson, Terry. The Sixties, 2nd edn, New York, 2004. Library copies
- Farber, David. The Age of Great Dreams, New York, 1994. Library copies
- Isserman, Maurice & Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, 2nd edn, New York, 2004. Library copies
Reference Books
Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.
- Kutler, Stanley I., ed. Dictionary of American History, 3rd edn, New York, 2003.
General Library Arts Reference 973.03 A21 2003
This is a comprehensive 10-volume dictionary and is an excellent introduction to many topics in American history.
- Boyer, Paul S., ed. The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford, 2001.
- Farber, David, and Beth Bailey. The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s, New York, 2001. Library copies
- Olson, James S., ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1960s, Westport, 1999.
Databases
Secondary sources
- America: History & Life
This is an indexing database. It will give you a list of articles about your topic from hundreds of history journals. You will get abstracts (summaries) of articles, but not the full text.
- JSTOR
This is a full-text database. The complete articles are available online. JSTOR is an archival database; it has every issue of a journal going back to the very first issue (in some cases as far back as the 19th century), but it doesn't always have the most recent few years.
Primary sources
- Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest
Primary source material covering popular culture, student protest, and civil rights in Britain and North America from 1950 to 1975.
Themes include changing lifestyles, youth culture, student protest across Europe and the United States, Mai '68, civil rights and women's liberation, consumerism, censorship, nuclear disarmament. Source material includes pamphlets, posters, underground magazines, letters, eye witness accounts, government reports, photographs, and video clips.
There are more databases on the History resource pages.
Internet sites with primary documents relating to the sixties
Be careful to assess Internet material with a critical eye. Much of it is unreliable. For instance there are a lot of sites dealing with Kennedy's assassination. Many of them simply express the conspiracy theories of their authors.
Free Speech Movement Archives
The Pentagon Papers
Psychadelic '60s
The Sixties Project
Watergate
Women's Liberation Movement Documents
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