US History 1960's and 1970's Research Guide
Humanities Campus Databases
Use these resources to help you with your research topic.
Click HERE to access the Humanities Campus Library databases.
Grolier Online is great for background information.
NYPL Databases
You must have your NYPL public library card to access the databases below.
US History In Context
World History In Context
Credo Reference
Additional Useful Websites
Useful Websites by Topic
Vietnam War
- PBS - Battlefield Vietnam http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/
- Britannica - Vietnam War http://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War
- PBS Vietnam Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
- History.com Vietnam War History http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history
- BBC Vietnam War History http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/05/vietnam_war/html/introduction.stm
- SHMOOP Vietnam War http://www.shmoop.com/vietnam-war/
Cold War
- History.com Cold War http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war
- Britannica Cold War http://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War
- BBC Cold War http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/
- The Cold War Museum http://www.coldwar.org
- Shmoop Causes of the Cold War http://www.shmoop.com/causes-of-cold-war/
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - The Cold War http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Cold-War.aspx
Woodstock/ Anti - War Movement
- History.com Vietnam War Protests http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests
- Spark Notes Vietnam War http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/vietnamwar/section8.rhtml
- PBS - Two Days In October - Student Anti-Protests http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/peopleevents/e_antiwar.html
- Gilder Lehrman Protest Music 1960's http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/sixties/essays/protest-music-1960s
- Gilderlehrman Woodstock http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/sixties/timeline-terms/woodstock (You may need to create an account to read this article)
Civil Rights Movement
- Britannica - American Civil Rights Movement http://www.britannica.com/event/American-civil-rights-movement
- The Civil Rights Movement: Major Evenhttp://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/essays/civil-rights-movement-major-events-and-legacies_
- The New York Public Library The Civil Rights Movement http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-civil-rights.html
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - Civil Rights Movement http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Civil-Rights-Movement.aspx
- Shmoop Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation http://www.shmoop.com/civil-rights-desegregation/
- Scholastic Civil Rights Movement: An Overview http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/civil-rights-movement-overview
- PBS Explore Civil Rights Movement http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement/#.VzNFI_3zfRo
Black Panther Party
- Britannica The Black Panther Party http://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party
- Gilder Lehrman Black Panthers https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/timeline-terms/black-panthers (You may need to create a free account to access this article).
- MSU Libraries Digital Collections: Black Panthers http://www.lib.msu.edu/branches/dmc/collectionbrowse/?coll=20&par=1
- The New York Public Library http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-black-power.html
McCarthyism/Red Scare
- History.com Joseph Mccarthy http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/joseph-mccarthy
- PBS - McCarthyism http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/arthur-miller-mccarthyism/484/
- Shmoop McCarthyism and Red Scare http://www.shmoop.com/mccarthyism-red-scare/
- Gilder Lehrman Institute http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/postwar-politics-and-origins-cold-war/resources/harry-s-truman-responds-mccarthy-1950 (You may need to create a free account to read this article).
- Anti-Communism in the 1950s http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/fifties/essays/anti-communism-1950s (you may need to create a free account to read this article).
JFK
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum JFK http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK.aspx
- The White House - John F. Kennedy https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnfkennedy
- Biography.com John F. Kennedy http://www.biography.com/people/john-f-kennedy-9362930
- PBS - Biography: JFK http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/kennedys-bio-john-fitzgerald/
- Shmoop John F. Kennedy http://www.shmoop.com/john-f-kennedy/
Cuban Revolution
- Britannica - Cuba http://www.britannica.com/place/Cuba/The-Republic-of-Cuba#ref515704
- Cold War Muesum - The Cuban Revolution http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/TheCubanRevolutionof1959.asp
- BBC - Fidel Castro http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zttpfg8
- PBS Fidel Castro http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/index.html_
- Office of the Historian The Cubam Missle Crisis https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/cuban-missile-crisis
- BBC US-Cuban Relations http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-12159943