History 203 First Year Research Seminar: Cold War Culture J. Wiener Winter 2004 Library Research Guide

• UCI Libraries Website  [Note: This guide is also linked from UCI Libraries Website/Services/Workshops & Classes/Webpages]
• History Subject Guide
• Doing Cold War History: A Practical Guide  You  may also wish to consult (wade through?) the guide entitled prepared by Marc Trachtenberg, UCLA Political Science Department, (updated February 2002)
• Connecting from Off Campus (remote access to resources below)

1. Sources for Historical Research
2. Good Research Skills
3. Sources for Topic Analysis
• Guides to the Literature, Encyclopedias and Other Reference Works
• Library of Congress Subject Headings
4. Monographs and Other Research Materials: Library Catalogs
• ANTPAC (Anteaters Public Access Catalog)
• Melvyl UC Systemwide Catalog and California Digital Library (CDL)
• WorldCat
• Essays/Chapters in Collections and Anthologies
• Dissertations
5. Articles: Periodical Indexing/Abstracting Services
• Web-based Indexes
• Print Indexes
7. Full-Text Journals on the Web
8. Specialized Internet Resources
9. Government Publications and Information
10. Selected Primary Sources and Special Collections and Archives
11. Creating, Organizing and Managing Bibliographies and Manuscript Citations: EndNote

Tertiary sources include bibliographies, indexes, abstracts, encyclopedias, and other reference resources.

Secondary sources are those that analyze, assess, or interpret a topic under investigation, typically utilizing primary sources to do so.

Primary sources (adapted from a definition on the Yale University Library Web site) are firsthand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation.  The nature and value of a source cannot be determined without reference to the topic and questions it is meant to answer.  The same document, or other piece of evidence, may be a primary source in one investigation and secondary in another.  The search for primary sources does not, therefore, automatically include or exclude any format of research materials or type of records, documents, or publications.

Primary sources typically can include archives and manuscript material, photographs, letters and diaries, scrapbooks, newspapers and clippings, government publications, oral histories, magazines, published books, printed ephemera, and video and audio recordings.

Start with topical analysis

• What is your topic?
• Diagram/interrogate your topic (ask who? when? where? what? why? how?).
• Keywords, synonyms, contemporaneous ways of referring to/describing your topic that are no longer current.

• Research is an iterative process and the best researchers learn as they go.
• What resources and research tools have you used?
• What terms have/have not worked?
• What new names/terms have you encountered in your searches?

• Start with a basic familiarity with the research tool you are using (online catalog, print index, internet)
• What is its topical and chronological coverage?
• How trustworthy is the information to which it provides access?
• Known item searches: titles and authors.  Use these to identify and link from promising subject headings.
• Subject searches: terms generally from a standardized list like LCSH (see below).
• Following subjects from a known item that you know is on target for your research is a good way of finding more of the same!
• Keyword searches: words that appear anywhere in descriptions of resources or resources themselves.
• Truncation:  Use trucation symbols (usually * and/or #) building on the root of a word to expand your retrieval

    Examples:
        histor*    =    history, historian, historical, historicism, etc.
        gender*    =    gender, genders, gendered, etc.
        rac*         =    race, racism, racist BUT also raccoon, racketeer, etc.

• Date searches: limiting result sets by dates can be a good approach when you are focusing on primary sources for a narrow time period like the 1950s.

Guides (or guides to the literature as they're sometimes called) provide the researcher with a basic introduction to the literature of a topic. Guides often list important bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, periodical indexes, manuscript and statistical finding aids, etc. They may be  a useful first step in beginning research, helpful both in acquainting the researcher with critical sources in the field and assisting in organization and evaluation of research strategies. In other words, some guides offer a structured overview of an academic discipline, while others serve primarily as beginning bibliographies of the key works in a field.

Guides to the Literature of History:

• The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature. New York: Oxford, 1995. 2 vols. Ref. Z6201 .A55 1995
• Handbook for Research in American History: A Guide to Bibliographies and other Reference Works. Francis Paul Prucha.  2d ed. Lincoln: Un. of Nebraska, 1994. Ref. Z1236 .P78 1994
• Social History of the United States: A Guide to Information Sources. Gale, 1979. Ref. Z7165 .U5 T5

Annotated bibliography and guide to the literature. Includes citations to books and articles on women and family, popular culture, the "subculture," and the arts.  Now 22 years old, it qualifies as an historical document itself!
• United States History: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Guide to Information Sources.  Anna H. Perrault and Ron Blazek.  Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003.  Ref. E178 P47 2003

• Cold War America: 1946-1990.  Facts on File, 2003. Ref. E741 .G76 2003
• Cold War, 1945-1991. 3 vols. Gale, 1992. Ref. D839.5 .C65
• Encyclopedia of the Cold War.  Thomas S. Arms. New York, NY : Facts on File, c1994.  Ref. D843 .A668 1994
• Historical Dictionary of the 1950s.  James Stuart Olson. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.  Ref.  E169.12 .O44 2000.
• The Cold War Encyclopedia.  Thomas Parrish. New York : H. Holt, 1996.  Ref. D840 .P28 1996
• Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts 1945-1990.  Richard A. Schwartz. New York, NY : Facts on File, c1998.  Ref. E169.12 .S39 1998
• The Cold War Reference Guide : A General History and Annotated Chronology with Selected Biographies. Richard A. Schwartz. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1997  Ref. D843 .S3365 1997
• Day by Day: The Fifties. Facts on File, 1979. Ref. E813 .M44 Oversize
• Encyclopedia of American Social History. 3 vols. Macmillan, 1993. Ref. HN57 .E58 1993
• Encyclopedia of Modern American Social Issues. ABC CLIO, 1997. Ref. HN57 .K73 1997
• Encyclopedia of the American Left. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 1998. Ref. HX86 .E58 1998
• Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era. Facts on File, 1996. Ref. E743.5 .K57 1996
• Facts on File. Ref. D410 .F28

Yearbooks for the 1950s and 1960s provide good overviews of the major events of the period in capsule fashion (but in greater detail than a chronology or timeline). Good way to identify an event before searching the New York Times or other contemporary periodical literature for more detailed information.
• Handbook of American Popular Culture. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Greenwood, 1989 Ref. E169.1 .H2643 1989
• Historical Dictionary of the Cold War. Joseph Smith and Simon Davis.  Scarecrow Press, 2000. Ref. D843 .S547 2000
• Keesing's Contemporary Archive. Ref. D410 .K4

A British version of Facts on File, allowing us to see ourselves as others see us.
• The Longman Companion to America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1941-1998.   John Young. 2nd ed.  London ; New York : Longman, 1999. Ref. D840 .Y68 1999

• Historical Dictionary of American Education.   Richard Altenbaugh, ed. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.  Ref.  LB15 .H57 1999
• Women and Work: A Handbook.  Paula J. Dubeck and Kathryn Borman.   New York : Garland Pub., 1996.  Ref. HD6095 .W678 1996
• A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory.  Michael Payne. Oxford, OX, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell Reference, 1996.  Ref. HM101 .D527 1996
• The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory.  Byran S. Turner. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass, USA : Blackwell, 1996.  Ref. H61 .B4774 1996.

A subject heading is a word or term that describes, often quite broadly, the contents of an information resource. "Authorized"
headings for U.S. libraries are generally determined by the Library of Congress (LCSH). LCSH is the basis for subject indexing of resources available in the ANTPAC (UCI) and MELVYL (UC-wide) as well as most other U.S. academic library catalogs. Subject indexing terms can be a powerful search tool in many online catalogs and indexing databases, and  these same subject headings found in records for known items can lead serendipitously to other interesting resources. In addition to usage in catalog records for books, videotapes, and other library resources, many (but by no means all) abstracting and indexing articles databases use LCSH as the basis for their subject indexing.

Searches for subject heading(s) assigned by the Library of Congress or descriptors assigned by the index/database producer
use a "controlled vocabulary." The best way to identify subject heading(s) for your topic is to do a keyword search first, then
note and link from subject headings of the most promising items.

Reminders:

• A subject heading search in ANTPAC is an exact subject heading search.
• There are many different subject headings that deal with the history of jerusalem; use key word searches to identify

the best ones for your topic.
• Subject headings, like all language and most everything in life (!), are socially and historically constructed; consider terminology for your topic broadly and deeply, e.g., African-Americans, Blacks, Negroes.

Finding the subheading terms "Sources" or "Archival resources" appended to any of the subject headings below on a record in an online catalog is an indication that the item you've found is substantially composed of primary source material.

• Anti-communist movements
• Baby boom generation
• Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States
• Baseball -- United States -- History
• Cold War
• Cold War -- History -- Sources
• Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States
• Communism and education
• Communism -- United States
• Critical theory
• Culture
• Discrimination in sports -- United States
• Education, Secondary -- Political aspects
• Education -- Social aspects
• Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Feminism -- United States
• Married women -- Employment -- United States
• Nineteen fifties
• Social history -- 1945-1960
• United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
• United States--History--1945-
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961
• United States--Popular culture
• United States--Social conditions--1945-
• United States--Social life and customs--1945-
• Women -- Employment -- United States -- History
• Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Work and family -- United States
• World politics -- 1945-

• Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
• Frankfurt School of Sociology
• McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
• Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
• Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953

ANTPAC provides quick and efficient access to the holdings of the UCI Libraries.  ANTPAC should be your first stop for accessing books, periodicals, media, and other research materials.

ANTPAC is available via a Web interface in the UCI Libraries as well as from home or office.  You can access ANTPAC via the UCI Libraries homepage (http://www.lib.uci.edu/) or directly (http://antpac.lib.uci.edu/).
 

4.2. MELVYL® UC SYSTEMWIDE CATALOG and CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY

Melvyl:

If your ANTPAC search does not produce the desired results or you want to expand your retrieval of materials, you will want to search the holdings of other libraries, particularly other UC libraries by using the UC Melvyl Catalog.

Melvyl is a web-based gateway to the library holdings of the University of California Libraries and to those of the California Academy of Sciences, California Historical Society, California State Library, Center for Research Libraries, Graduate Theological Union, Hastings College of Law, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

The database contains over 23,000,000 records, including books, periodicals or journal titles, videos, maps, sound recordings and muc  more. Melvyl allows you to browse records, save and mail items to your email account, set up a profile and Workspace so that you can save records and searches across sessions, and have email Updates automatically sent to you.

The new Melvyl catalog was released by CDL to the UC University community and public at large in April 2003.  On August 1, 2003, "Legacy Melvyl" was retired and the new web-based version of Melvyl became the only  union, or combined, catalog of the UC libraries.

For more information, consult:  Introduction and Guides to New Melvyl

Highly Recommended:  Establish your profile and "Workspace" in new Melvyl  in order to:

• Save and view searches so they are available to you after you log out of your session.
• Save and view items after you log out of your session.
• Use the Update Service, an automated process that will perform searches defined by you at chosen intervals. The emailed results contain records that have been added to the Melvyl system during the previous interval (see Practitioners Guide 16.)
• Customize certain display preferences and save them across sessions, including the format of search results and the number of records displayed per page.
• Set your Email address for use with Updates and Request, the interlibrary loan service.

The California Digital Library:
Mission: "Harnessing technology and innovation, and leveraging the intellectual and cultural resources of the UC, the CDL supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities they serve. Established in 1997 as a UC  library, the CDL has become one the largest digital libraries in the world."

CDL Collections & Services:

      Directory of CDL Licensed Content

            CDL Collections in History Available to UCI Irvine: Browse
                Listing of links to resources by historical field, e.g., Asian  History, California History, Modern European History, etc.
            CDL Collections in History Available to UCI Irvine: Search Results
                Includes over 1200 Electronic Journals, Databases, Archival Finding Aids and Reference Texts; Use the drop-down menu to limit by these categories.

    You may also search the CDL Collections
 

4.3. WORLDCAT (WCAT)

Records from the worldwide OCLC Online Union Catalog for books, computer files, audiovisual materials, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, musical scores, etc., in a variety of languages.  (Also provides links to other databases of possible interest, e.g., ArticlesFirst, etc.)
 

4.4. Essays/Chapters in Collections and Anthologies

Finding essays/chapters in collections and anthologies presents particular challenges to the researcher. This is all the more true given that the title or subject of the collection likely will not reflect the more specific topic of the essays within it. Happily, for many publications, you can now use ANTPAC and/or WorldCat to identify selected published essays on your topic.

ANTPAC: Keyword searching now searches for your search terms in the author, title, subject, series, notes, and contents field. Essay titles and authors are typically included in the Contents field.

Do a general keyword search:     Example: cold and war and culture
or
Limit to Contents field by using n: in keyword search:     Example: n: cold war culture or by author: n: jon wiener

WORLDCAT:Use the advanced search option and limit your keyword search to the Notes/Comments field
 
 

4.5. Dissertations

Digital Dissertations
Includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.
 

5.  ARTICLES: PERIODICAL INDEXING/ABSTRACTING SERVICES

The most convenient direct access to periodical indexes and abstracts is through the UCI Libraries website, Article Databases.

Here you will find an alphabetical listing of all indexes and abstracts available through CDL or licensed directly by the UCI Libraries.  The following is a selective listing of indexes most useful for History 203 topics.

Note: Always pay attention to the type and chronological scope of the database you are using as you select your search terms.
 

WEB-BASED INDEXES

** Particularly recommended
 

History

**America: History and Life  (AHL) 1964-
The most authoritative listing of periodical literature, book and media reviews, and dissertations in United States and Canadian history.  Covers over 1,700 journals published worldwide.
Search Hints:
            Use Advanced Search and Keyword Search to begin, then if desired
            Indicate Time Period: For example,  1950D. Click on magnifying glass icon to right of time period to browse options.

Historical Abstracts(HA)  1955-
The "world's leading historical bibliography" covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America).  Includes English-language journals (1,700+), books, and disseratations.
 
 

Multidisciplinary

Expanded Academic Index ASAP  1980 - present
Provides multi-disciplinary coverage from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology; inlcudes scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.

**Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
Nearly 5,000 publications span news, financial, medical, and legal information, the vast majority available in full text, with a limited number available in abstract form. Covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, etc. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.

**Readers Guide Retrospective  1890-1982
Provides citations to over 500 of  the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, reflecting  the history of 20th century America.

Also of interest:

Left Index.  1982- present
Provides access to "the diversity of literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas. Topics covered include politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization."

**The Nation Digital Archive.   1865-
Full-text archive of The Nation magazine, America's oldest weekly magazine.  Includes 6,800  issues, fully searchable by author, title, keyword or date range.  "Its 135+ years of reporting, opinion, and criticism make for an invaluable collection of primary source materia Its 135+ years of reporting, opinion, and criticism make for an unmatched collection of primary source material, covering the history of politics, culture, books and the arts — in the U.S. and around the world.

PCI: Periodical Contents Index  1770-1995.
An electronic index to the contents of 3,000+ periodicals in the humanities and social sciences , from their first issues to 1995.

Ethnic NewsWatch   1960- present
Full-text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press covering both current and historical topics.

GenderWatch     1970 - present
Full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters,
regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports.

Women’s Resources International    (WRI) 1972-
Includes over 232,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases including Women Studies Abstracts (1984- ; approx. 35,000 records) and the Women’s Studies Database (1972- ; approx. 70,300 records drawn from 125 journals worldwide).
 
 

Newpapers

Current:

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe (see above)

National Newspaper Index.  1977 - presnt
Provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Historical:

**Los Angeles Times Historical    1881-1937 (subsequent  years currently being loaded)

**New York Times Historical 1851-1999
At long last, we have retrospective access to the NYT full-text!

Wall Street Journal Historical   1889-1985

Note:  For other web databases relevant to history research, see CDL History Databases Available to UC Irvine

PRINT INDEXES

Unfortunately, the 1950s to 1970s is a time period that generally falls prior to many online newspaper and magazine indexing services, so you also will need to use print indexes to assist in your search for resources on your topic for this course.

Print Indexes to Primary Sources/Magazines and Journals:

Especially as historians, you can never forget those indexes still available only in print form.  Especially for contemporary publications, the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and the newspaper indexes cited can serve as great topical indexes to what was being written about the events and subjects you are researching at the time they were actually happening.

International Index to Periodicals.  1907-1965/65 Ref. AI3 I58
    Index to academic journals in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.
   (subsequently:  Humanities and Social Sciences Index. 1965/66-1973/74; then separately: Humanities Index; Social Sciences Index 1973/74- )

Alternative Press Index 1969-  Ref. AI3 .A4

Film Literature Index 1973- Ref. PN1993 .F563

Index to Black Periodicals.  1971-  present Ref. AI3 O4
    (formerly Index to Periodicals By and About Negroes/Blacks)

Convenient access from:
    CDL: United States and North American History,  Electronic Journals available to UC Irvine
    or
    UCI Libraries Web Site:  Full-Text Online Journals

Specific Collections:

JSTOR   (Retrospective archive)
Provides searching and browsing access to the full text of back files of over 100 scholarly publications in dozens of academic disciplines, including History. Articles can be printed off using an Adobe PDF reader plug in to your Web browser (available on all public terminals in the UCI Libraries).
Note: for many jouranls,  does not include the latest 2-5 years, but often includes back issues from several decades past.

History Titles Include:

American Historical Review  American Quarterly  Eighteenth-Century Studies  Journal of American History  Journal of Economic History  Journal of Military History  Journal of Modern History  Journal of Negro History

Journal of Southern History Journal of the History of Ideas Renaissance Quarterly Reviews in American History Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies Studies in the Renaissance William and Mary Quarterly

Project Muse (Current)
Full text of over 40 journals in the humanities and social sciences published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Full text coverage varies by journal title but ranges from 1993 to the present. Links to the full text of many articles available in CDL-hosted databases.

Selected journals of interest include:

American Imago American Jewish History American Quarterly Eighteenth-Century Life

Eighteenth-Century Studies History and Memory Journal of the History of Ideas Reviews in American History

History Cooperative

Sponsored by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press, provides electronic access to the following journals:

American Historical Review  The History Teacher  The Journal of American History

Law and History Review  The Western Historical Quarterly  The William and Mary Quarterly

7. SPECIALIZED INTERNET RESOURCES

Although the Internet provides access to information resources that are often of dubious quality or authority, for historians there are a growing number of sites worth visiting.  Among the most useful are collections of primary documents, visual resources, and listservs where you can chat with colleagues around the world. Google (http://www.google.com/), if you haven't used it, is an excellent internet search engine for finding resources.

Try the URLs listed below for a sampling of interesting and perhaps informative Web sites.

• Cold War, Hot Links ("These links are to webpages which other people have created and like most things on the net, they run the entire spectrum of political thought and vary greatly in quality. Nonetheless, they do provide web surfers with some interesting views and information on the Cold War and the National Security State.") Available at: http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html
• The Fabulous Fifties ("The 1950s lasted far longer than a numerical decade. The 1950s started in October, 1947 when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, ushering in a time of great progress. The 1950s ended on November 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was the end of an innocent era and ushered in the Sixties - a time of skepticism and cynicism. Click on a subject at left to explore each aspect of the 50s.") Available at: http://www.joesherlock.com/fifties.html
• Fifties Boulevard: A Graphic Portrait of the Fifties in America ("Sometimes elegant, sometimes gritty, sometimes provocative, but always entertaining.") Available at: http://magnetplace.com/RETRO/
• Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress ("Presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. The online collection includes five excerpts from stop-motion advertising developed for Coca-Cola between 1954 and 1956 by the D'Arcy agency and makes public for the first time eighteen excerpts from the Experimental TV Color Project of 1964, which determined the best lighting for the cans, bottles, and performers in television advertisements.") Available at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html
• Ad*Access Project, Duke University

Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
• Rewind the Fifties ("These sites are rated Cool for Cats, hep Chicks, Greasers, Motor heads, Beats, Cool Kittens and Sandra Dee's. This Site contains over 400 Photos of Cars, Vintage Posters, 1950's Bowling Shirts, Poodle Skirts, Prints, Drive-ins, Jukebox midi's, Fabulous 50's visitors memories and pictures, nostalgia, Pinups, Retro Fashions, and Fun Shopping.") Available at: http://www.loti.com/
• The Rosenbergs: A Case of Love, Espionage, Deceit, and Betrayal ("A network of spies, gleaning secrets of the atom bomb, a host of couriers and traitors, led by an insignificant man, assisted by a loyal wife, caught by the testimony of the wife's brother, culminating in the

unprecedented executions of both husband and wife -- this is the setting for the most sensational espionage case of World War II and its aftermath.")  Available at: http://www.crimelibrary.com/rosen/rosenmain.htm
• The Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg ("The Rosenberg Trial is the sum of many stories: a love story, a spy story, a story of a family torn apart, and a story of government overreaching. As is the case with many famous trials, it is also the story of a particular time: the early 1950's with its cold war tensions and headlines dominated by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his demagogic tactics.") Available at: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.htm
• Senator Joe McCarthy -- A Multimedia Celebration ("'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' -- Philosopher George Santayana") Available at: http://webcorp.com/mccarthy/mccarthypage.htm
• Not specifically a 1950s site, but the American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara provides access to transcriptions of documents from the administrations of presidents in the latter half of the 20th century, including Dwight Eisenhower, who was president during most of the 1950s.  For someone interested in a political history project this could be a goldmine. Information on how to get a password to access the presidential papers transcriptions is available on the web site at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.html.

The U.S. Government produces a mind-boggling amount of information.  The titles below are just a few resources that might be of use. You can also limit your search retrieval sets in ANTPAC to items located in "Langson-Gov Info" by using the "Limit/Sort" or Modify Search button.

If you want to use government information in your research, it is highly recommended that, near the beginning of the quarter, that you email Kay Collins , U.S. Government Information Librarian, regarding available information resources.

• CIS U.S. Congressional Committee Hearings List, 1833- . Ref. KF40 .C56 1981

Provides access to House and Senate hearings by subject as well as name of witness. Parts XI and XII, 80th-91st Congresses, cover the 1950s.
• CIS U.S. Serial Set Index. Ref. Z1223 .Z9 C65

An ongoing collection of U.S. government publications compiled under the direction of Congress. Indexes congressional journals, administrative reports, and reports from federal agencies. Features some interesting rsources on "discrimination in education."
• Congressional Universe--Congressional Indexes, 1789-1969.

Online access to U.S. congressional indexes for published material and indexes to unpublished hearings.
• Digital National Security Archive: The documents that made U.S. policy.

Access to a selection of digitized government documents concerning various U.S. national security issues.

Primary sources for the Cold War period include articles and advertising in popular magazines, media (film and television), speeches by national leaders, presidential papers, FBI reports, congressional hearings, and documentary films. A brief sampling of some primary sources available at UCI Libraries, with call numbers (all in Langson Library) supplied in bold  after the resource title, is listed below.

For additional suggestions, see Identifying and Locating Primary Sources

Magazines available in UCI Libraries covering the Cold War period:

• American Home  1928-1976.  NA 7100 .A45--stored at SRLF  Popular women's magazine focusing on home decorating, etc.
• Life   1936-1972    AP 2 .L547 Popular magazine published thoughout the Cold War period until 1981
• Ebony.  1962- present   AP 2 E165
• Jet.  1967/68-1999/00.  Microfilm S 000475
• Life.  1936-1972.   AP 2 L547
• Newsweek.  1935- present.  AP 2 N6772
• Redbook.  1961- present.  Microfilm S 000005
• Saturday Review.  1952-1973.  AP 2 S27
• Sports Illustrated.  1954-1985    GV 561 S733
• Time.  1924- present.    AP 2 .T37 Popular weekly news magazine published throughout the Cold War period.
• Vogue   1960- present   TT 500 .V7 Popular women's fashion magazine published throughout the Cold War period.

• Appointment Book of President Kennedy (1961-1963). (Microfilm M000365) 3 reels + 1 guide.
• Daily Diary of President Johnson (1963-1969). (Microfilm M000366) 14 reels + 1 guide.
• FBI COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) Series. Communist Party of the United States of America (1950-1970) (Microfilm M000501), and Disruption of the New Left (Microfilm M000502). "This material was released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in December 1977 under provision of the Freedom of Information Act."
• FBI, American Legion Contact Program (Microfilm M000457)
• FBI File on Eleanor Roosevelt  (Microfilm M 000788) 3 reels + guide
• FBI File on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (Microfilm M 000790) 27 reels
• Papers of the Nixon White House (Microfiche M000221) Includes guide.

• Atomic Cafe.   U263 .A86 1993

This collage film focuses on the 40's and 50's, showing clips of soldiers wearing sunglasses going into areas devastated by nuclear detonation and suburban families practicing using their bomb shelters. An entertaining look at how we got where we are
• Behind closed doors: the dark legacy of the Johns Committee  F316.2 .B445 2000

The Legislative Investigation Committee probed unpopular groups in Florida during the 1950's and 60's. Also known as the Johns Committee, investigators questioned civil rights activists, suspected Communists and homosexuals. Includes live interviews with Art Copleston, Merril Mushroom, and Julia Penelope; and a narrative about Sigmund Diettrich (who is now deceased) by former colleagues
• Blackboard Jungle.  PN1997 .B533 1992  (film made in 1955)

"This film depicts life in an inner city high school in the 1950's. It was the first to use a rock 'n roll soundtrack. A dedicated young teacher soon loses his idealism when he has to deal with the tensions that threaten to destroy his classroom."
• A Century of Women.   HQ1426 .C468 1994

v. 1. Work and family
A fictional family talks about their own lives and weaves in the factual stories of women in 20th century America and how they changed the course of American history
• Cold War. D840 .C65 1998

v. 1 (3 pts.). [pt.] 1. Comrades 1917-1945 ; [pt.] 2. Iron Curtain 1945-1947 ; [pt.] 3. Marshall Plan 1947-1952. -- v. 2 (3 pts.). [pt.] 4. Berlin 1948-1949 ; [pt.] 5. Korea 1949-1953 ; [pt.] 6. Reds 1947-1953 -- v. 3 (3 pts.). [pt.] 7. After Stalin1953-1956 ; [pt.] 8. Sputnik 1949-1961 ; [pt.] 9. The Wall 1958-1963 -- v. 4 (3 pts.). [pt.] 10. Cuba 1959-1962 ; [pt.] 11. Vietnam 1954-1968 ; [pt.] 12. MAD 1960-1972 -- v. 5 (3 pts.). [pt.] 13. Make love not war, the Sixties ; [pt.] 14. Red  Spring, the Sixties ; [pt.] 15. China 1949-1972 -- v. 6 (3 pts.). [pt.] 16. Detente 1969-1975 ; [pt.] 17. Good guys, bad guys 1967-1978 ; [pt.] 18. Backyard 1954-1990 -- v. 7 (3 pts.). [pt.] 19. Freeze 1977-1981 ; [pt.] 20. Soldiers of God 1975-1988 ; [pt.] 21. Spies 1944-1994 -- v. 8 (3 pts.). [pt.] 22. Star Wars 1980-1988 ; [pt.] 23. The Wall comes down 1989 ; [pt.] 24. Conclusions 1989-1991.
• Eyes on the Prize. KF4757 .E93 1990

"Video documentary includes 8 videocassettes and a guide and covers the years 1965-1985."
• Flag.   N6512.5.V53 F551

Images depict a Black girl growing up in America during the 1950's and 1960's superimposed against images of sewing and shredding the U.S. flag and audio excerpts of the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance and other patriotic texts
• Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist     PN1993.5.U6 L43 2002

A documentary which looks at the personal tragedies and triumphs which resulted from the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings, 1947-1951, as seen through the eyes of the wives and children of the Hollywood writers, producers, and directors who were the victims of these hearings
• Ordinary Americans: The Red Scare.  E743.5 .O735 1999

Examines the history of official and unofficial attempts fo find and punish communists, both in and outside the U.S. government. Tells the story through the words of Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph  McCarthy, as well as through personal accounts of lesser-known Americans who got caught up in the Cold War fervor of attacking communism at home
• Point of Order UB23 .P656 1998

"Originally issued as motion picture in 1964, this video documents the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings through excerpts from the television footage shot during the six weeks of hearings and includes an introduction by Paul Newman, who places the excerpts in historical perspective."
• Unquiet Death of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.   KF224.R6 U57 1978a

Documents the 1950-1951 trial for conspiracy to commit espionage United States of America against Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg. Interviews convicted co-defendant Morton Sobell, former FBI investigators, jurors, and other participants in the events surrounding this remarkable segment of U.S. legal and social history.

This department includes numerous collections of printed brochures, planning documents, newspapers, maps, photographs, pamphlets, and manuscript materials, a number of which relate to the Cold War period.

Of particular interest is the fairly extensive political pamphlets collection, including for example the following:

• Abt, John. The people vs. McCarthyism, 1953. PolLit E743.5 .A622 1953.
• Brown, Lloyd. Stand up for freedom!, 1952. PolLit E185.86 .B685 1952.
• California Emergency Defense Committee. The Inside story, 1951. SCP-0859
• Communist Party of the USA. Draft resolution for the 16th national convention, 1956. SCP-0938.
• Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. The Smith Act, 1956. SCP-1042.
• Gerson, Simon. Either the Constitution or the Mundt Bill, 1950. SCP-1003.
• League of Women Voters. Liberty and security, 1956. SCP-1185.
• Hall, Gus. Which way for young Americans? 1950. SCP-2013.
• Mowery, Edward. HUAC and FBI, 1961. SCP-2209.
• Perry, Pettis. Pettis Perry speaks to the Court, 1952. SCP-1473.
• Schwarz, Frederick. The Christian answer to Communism, 1961. SCP-1806.
• Wilkerson, Doxey. The people versus segregated schools, 1955. SCP-0423.

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Highly Recommended: EndNote Workshops

• Wednesday, February 25:     2:00-4:00 p.m.   Main Library TEC, Room 228      sponsored by HumaniTech and UCI Libraries
• By request to Joan Ariel, jariel@uci.edu, for History graduate students and faculty.
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