general info

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Life – Our Century in Photographs

American Chronicle: year by year through the 20^th century

Current Biography, one volume for each year

Dictionary of American Biography: 1951-1955, 1956-1960, 1961-1965 & 1966-1970

Dictionary of World Biography: 20^th Century, 3 vols.

America in the 20^th Century: 1950-1959, and 1960-1969

American Decades: 1950-1959, and 1960-1969

This Fabulous Century, volumes for 1950s and 1960s

History in Dispute: American Social & Political Movements

For ARTICLES use databases available from:
ProQuest
eLibrary
KCLS databases (you'll need your King Co. library card # for access)

Bibliography of books in the Mount Si Library on the 50s & 60s

Questia.com on the 1960s http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=1960s_america&OFFID=se1&KEY=1960s

status quo
 v.
social movements

REF 303.48 Eng    Activist, Rebels & Reformers,  4 vols.

REF 303.6l Pro     Protest, Power & Change: an encyclopedia of non-violent action from ACT-UP to womens suffrage

REF 306.097 Enc     Encyclopedia of Social Issues, 6 vols.

REF 920 Mcg    American Social Leaders

REF 323.1 Enc  Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America

Civil Rights Movement Veterans http://crmvet.org/index.htm
 

REF 305.4 You  Pushing the Limits: American Women 1940-1961

REF 305.4 You  Road to Equality: American Women, 1962 to the present

PBS American Experience site on women’s   movement http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/   missamerica/filmmore/fr.html

REF 970.004 Nat  Native America in the Twentieth Century: an encyclopedia

          AIM http://www.aimovement.org/

REF 920 Mey  Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans

REF 973.0468 Kan  The Hispanic Almanac: from Columbus to corporate America

“Be Down with the Brown” http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/mrtinez1.htm

COINTELPRO: U.S. domestic covert operations against La Raza
http://aztlan.net/covert.html

National Council of La Raza http://www.nclr.org/section/history
 

REF 920 Kra  Biographical Dictionary of Black Americans

Black Panther Party -- history
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/

Establishment v.
Anti-establishment

REF 320 Enc Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics

REF 320.973 Clu  Encyclopedia of American Political Reform

REF 324.273 Kur  Encyclopedia of the Democratic/Republican Party, 4 vols.

REF 324.4 Nes  Encyclopedia of Interest Groups & Lobbyists in the United States

REF 347.73 Mac  The Supreme Court

REF 347.73 Sup  Supreme Court Justices: illustrated biographies, 1789-1995

REF 973 Gro  Political Corruption in America: an ency. of scandals, power & greed

SEE ALSO Mount Si Library pathfinder on freedom fighters http://www.mountsihighschool.com/library/freedom_fighters.htm

Culture v.
Counter-culture

REF 305.8 Gal  Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2 vols.

REF 306 Eve Everyday Life in American Social History

REF 920 Ame  American Cultural Leaders

REF 920 Bea A History of African-American Artists: from 1792 to the present

Wikipedia on “beat generation” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_generation

Wikipedia on “counter culture” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_culture

Music

REF 784.5 New  New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
REF 920 Ree Encyclopedia of Rock Stars

Theater & Film

REF 791.43 Ame 100 Years of American Film
REF 791.43 Tho  New Biographical Dictionary of Film
REF 791.45 Lac Encyclopedia of American Television

The Digger Archives  http://www.diggers.org/top_entry.htm

Literature

REF 741.5 Cou  Encyclopedia of American Comics from 1987 to the Present
REF 741.5 Wor  World Encyclopedia of Comics, 7 vols.
REF 810.8 Oxf  Oxford Companion to African-American Writers
REF 810.8 Smo  Smoke Rising: the Native North American literary companion      REF 810.9 Ame  American Writers
REF 810.9 Bla  Black Writers, 2 vols.
REF 811.008 Har  Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry

Beat Generation Biographies http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/beats.html

Lee Harris Archive:  Allen Ginsberg http://www.leeharris.co.uk/Archive/AllenGinsberg/AllenGinsberg.html

doves v. hawks

REF 327 Enc  Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament, 4 vols.

REF 904.7 Fac  Facts about the American Wars      

REF 909.82 Enc  Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II, 4 vols.

SEE ALSO Mount Si Library pathfinder on the Cold War http://www.mountsihighschool.com/library/cold_war.htm

technological & economic development

REF 330.9 Enc  Encyclopedia of American Economic History, 3 vols.

REF 338.5 Val  Value of a Dollar, 1860-1999

REF 338.7 Lan  Landmarks in Modern American Business, 1944-1974       

REF 629.4  Bad  Spaceflight & Rocketry: a chronology

REF 973 Enc  Encyclopedia of Rural America, 2 vols.

National Air & Space Museum on the “space race”
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/gal114.htm

NASA — 30th anniversary of Apollo moon landing
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/introduction.htm

Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits.html

Agribusiness Council http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/

"Plowing for Profits" http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0315-26.htm