Research Guides: POL 300: Socialism: Home

College Unrest in the 1960s Sources

WFU Resources

Other Schools

ProQuest Historical Newspapers Contains seven newspapers back to their first issues: New York Times (1851-3 years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), Wall Street Journal (1889-1989), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2002), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Pittsburgh Courier (1950-2002) and Washington Post (1877-1997). Includes advertisements, illustrations, etc. as they were laid out on the original page.
Readers Guide Retrospective Indexes US newspapers and magazines 1890-1982.
Chronicling America (through 1963) Historic US newspapers digitized by the Library of Congress. Coverage through 1963.

Other Primary Sources

UC Berkeley Archives
Columbia University Archives
Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s Contains the FBI files on Abby Hoffman, Students for a Democratic Society, Brown Berets, and the Kent State firebombing as well as others.
Gale Primary Sources This contains many smaller primary source collections in US history that could be of interest. Papers of the Negro Youth Congress,
ProQuest Congressional Provides congressional hearings, Congressional Record, and CRS reports.

Video Resources

Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum--race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Coverage: Details not available
Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
Kanopy Video This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Swank Digital Campus provides a customizable academic streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more.

Search Across Multiple NGOs and IGOs

Use these links to search across multiple NGO, IGO, Think Tank and Research Organizations.

Getting Started with Background Sources

General Background Resources

Credo Reference subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are over 1,100 short reference videos, nearly 450,000 high-resolution art images, photographs and maps across all subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library, or GVRL, is an online collection of subject-specific encyclopedias and other reference works. It provides a one-stop shop for background and context materials covering a wide variety of historical, political and policy topics.

Socialism Background Sources

Reference Articles on Socialism
Encyclopedia of American Activism
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
Ideas and Movements That Shaped America
Global Issues in Context Global Issues In Context integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Books

Use our search interface Primo to find content across all sorts of formats and disciplines. You can limit to books in the left column after you have done a search. For more information on how to use Primo - check out our playlist on YouTube.

Books and eBooks on Socialism from 2000-2020

Major Politics and IA Databases

Political Science & Military Databases

ProQuest Political Science/Worldwide Political Science Abstracts A database that provides hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Hein Online Law Journal Library
Contains the full text of over 300 academic legal periodicals. Coverage begins at the earliest issue for each journal.
PAIS (Public Affairs International)
Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Includes PAIS Archive.
ProQuest Military Collection
Covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics & space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. Coverage: 1987-.
Military and Government Collection
Provides full text from military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. Includes full text country reports from CountryWatch

Databases from Related Fields

EconLit
America: History and LIfe
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering the history of the world from 1450-- except the U.S. and Canada.
ProQuest Sociology
ProQuest Sociology covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and more.
ProQuest Criminal Justice (Crime, Policing, Prisons)
A database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
ERIC (Education including policy)
Our primary education database, ERIC has an enormous collections of journals, book chapters and other research on children and adolescents.
Environment Complete
Provides coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, urban planning, and more.
Art & Architecture Complete
Provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books, plus indexing and abstracts for more than 780 periodicals and over 230 books, and an image collection of over 63,000 images. Covers a wide variety of subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and more.

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