History 203A First Year Research Seminar: Cold War Culture Professor Jon Wiener Spring Quarter 2003 Library Research Guide

Librarian contacts:

Joan Ariel  History and Women's Studies Librarian  386 Main Library  824-4970  jariel@uci.edu

Bill Landis  Manuscripts Librarian  Special Collection and Archives  500 Main Library  824-3113  blandis@uci.edu

Kay Collins  U.S. Government Information Librarian  108 Main Library  824-7290  kcollins@uci.edu

General Resources:

UCI Libraries Website

History Subject Guide

You may also wish to consult (wade through?) the guide prepared by Marc Trachtenberg, UCLA Political Science Department, entitled Doing Cold War History: A Practical Guide  (updated February 2002)

Connecting from Off Campus (remote access to resources below)

This guide covers the following areas:

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)
• CDL MELVYL: UC Systemwide Catalog
• 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 your topic (who, what, why, when, where, and how).
• Keywords, synonyms, contemporary ways of referring to 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.
• Combining search terms: using AND between terms will give you a smaller set of retrievals, while using OR will get you more retrievals.

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

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!

• 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
• 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.

Note:
A subject heading search in ANTPAC is an exact subject heading search.
For example, the following subject search results:
history of the cold war = 0
history cold war = 0
cold war history = 8                (compare to keyword search cold war and history = 499)
cold war = 300

Reminders:

• 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-communism movements
• Baby boom generation
• Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States
• Baseball -- United States -- History
• Cold War
• Cold War -- History
• 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

4.1. ANTPAC: UCI LIBRARIES CATALOG

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. CDL MELVYL® CATALOG: UC SYSTEMWIDE CATALOG

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. The California Digital Library (CDL) MELVYL® Catalog opens doors to worlds beyond UCI .

To research a topic, select Subject or Power search.  Subject searches require word(s) from authorized LC subject headings.  Power searches allow you to combine search types (including title words, subject, or exact subject) and, if desired, to limit your retrieval by library location, date, language, form, and/or date added to the database.

Save: Use the Save feature to create your own topic bibliography within a single database or across several databases.  Once you have saved the items for your bibliography, click on Saved Lists to view, print, mail or download.  Make sure you give your list a relevant subject, indicating topic and date.  You may also want to add an annotation for your list indicating which databases you covered.

Output options: You may mail, print, or download your search results.

Request: You may also request  materials identified in a MELVYL® search through via the Request option (as long as they are not currently available at UCI). Keep in mind, however, that Document Access and Delivery /Inter-Library Loan (DA&D) can occasionally be a slow process, best undertaken at the beginning of your research. The ten-week quarter makes few allowances for DA&D, although the increased use of FAX and other electronic delivery systems does at least make acquiring journal articles from afar faster and easier (though often for a fee).
 
 

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: cold war culture (=5)
or
Limit to Contents field: n: cold war culture (=2) 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

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 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.
         Caveat:  Use of Time Period can be tricky.  Sometimes best to just do keyword search then browse results. Or, you can truncate date
                e.g. 20*
 

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 searchable access to citations from 512 leading U.S. magazines from 1890 to 1982.

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

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.

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

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 most 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

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.

Magazines and Journals:

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-  presentRef. AI3 O4
(formerly Index to Periodicals By and About Negroes/Blacks)
 

Newspapers:

Los Angeles Times Index.  1972-  Ref. AI21 L65 N492
    LA Times available on microfilm in Current Periodicals Room, 1881- present; it will soon be available full-text online. In the meantime, however, one strategy to identify articles during the Cold War is to use the NY Times index to identify relevant dates for your topic, then browse in the LA Times around those dates.

Convenient access from:
    CDL: United States and North American History,  Electronic Journals available to UC Irvine
    or
    UCI Libraries Homepage: Research Resources A-Z / 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.

8. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS AND INFORMATION

The U.S. Government produces a mind-boggling amount of information.  The following are just a few resources that might be of use. UCI Libraries call numbers are supplied in parentheses after the resource title. The latter two resources below are available from the UCI Libraries homepage list of "Research Resources A-Z."  The first is an index to information produced by the U.S. Congress, much of which is available through the UCI Libraries, though much of it is uncataloged. The second is an index to full-text, scanned government documents available online.  If you really want to use government information in your research, it would be a good idea, near the beginning of the quarter, to e-mail Kay Collins (phone # and e-mail at the top of this guide), U.S. Government Information Librarian regarding available information resources. You can also limit your search retrieval sets in ANTPAC to items located in "MAIN-Govt Pubs" by using the "Limit/Sort" button.

• CIS U.S. Congressional Committee Hearings List, 1833- . (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.
• U.S. Serials Set Index. (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. (Available through Research Resources A-Z on the UCI Libraries homepage at: http://www.lib.uci.edu/rraz/compre.html).
• 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. (Available through Research Resources A-Z on the UCI Libraries homepage at: http://www.lib.uci.edu/rraz/compre.html).

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 the Main Library) supplied in parentheses after the resource title, is listed below.

For additional suggestions, see Identifying and Locating Primary Sources

Magazines in print:

• American Home  1928-1976.  NA 7100 .A45--stored at SRLF  Popular women's magazine focusing on home decorating, etc.
• Life   1936-1972   Science Library Bar AP 2 .L547 (temporary location) Popular magazine published thoughout the Cold War period until 1981
• Ebony.  1962- present  Science Library Bar AP 2 E165 (temporary location)
• Jet.  1967/68-1999/00.  Microfilm S 000475
• Life.  1936-1972.  Science Library Bar AP 2 L547(temporary location)
• Newsweek.  1935- present.  Science Library Bar AP 2 N6772 (temporary location)
• Redbook.  1961- present.  Microfilm S 000005
• Saturday Review.  1952-1973.  Science Library Bar AP 2 S27 (temporary location)
• Sports Illustrated.  1954-1985    GV 561 S733
• Time.  1924- present.    Science Library Bar AP 2 .T37 (temporary location) Popular weekly news magazine published throughout the Cold War period.
• Vogue   1960- present   Science Library BarTT 500 .V7 (temporary location) 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. FBI, American Legion Contact Program (Microfilm M000457)
• Papers of the Nixon White House (Microfiche M000221) Includes guide.

Videos (located in the Multimedia Resource Center, MRC, first floor, Main Library)

• 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
• 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

For example,

• "Jackie Robinson" as a subject retrieves his autobiography Wait till next year; the life story of Jackie Robinson, written with  Carl T. Rowan; (GV865.R6 R64)
• "Rosenberg, Julius" as an author retrieves the following published collection of primary source materials: The Rosenberg Letters : A Complete Edition of the Prison Correspondence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (HX84 .R578 A4 1994)
• "Hoover, J. Edgar" as an author retrieves this interesting Cold War artifact published in 1962: A Study of Communism (HX40 .H63).

If you are interested in exploring the possibility of taking a local angle to your research topic, please contact Bill Landis (phone # and e-mail are at the top of this guide) to discuss.
 
 
 

10. CREATING/ORGANIZING/MANAGING BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND MANUSCRIPT CITATIONS: ENDNOTE

See attached description.

EndNote is a bibliographic management software program used to develop, organize and manipulate bibliographic citations and facilitate the production of bibliographies and the publication process.  EndNote allows the user to create a "library" to store and manage citations, similar to a set of index cards but with much more organizational power and flexibility.  Additionally, EndNote allows the user to export citations from many (but not yet all) catalogs and databases (including America: History and Life) directly into your "library" bibliography and from your "library" into a word processor.  You can thus produce a bibliography or manuscript automatically incorporating citations in a variety of publication styles (e.g., Chicago, APA, or journal-specific).

EndNote software is available in open-access library computer labs including Science Library Interactive Learning Center (ILC) Room 164 and Main Library TEC, Room 228 (open in the evenings).  Available for sale at educational discount in UCI Computer Store. You may also download a FREE 30-day full-featured trial from the EndNote website @ www.endnote.com.

Highly Recommended: EndNote Workshops

• Monday, April 21:     3:00-5:00 p.m.   Main Library TEC, Room 228      sponsored by HumaniTech and UCI Libraries
• Friday, May 2:            2:00-4:00 p.m.   Main Library TEC, Room 228     sponsored by UCI Libraries
• Tuesday, May 13:      3:00-4:30 p.m.   Main Library TEC, Room 228    Writing Your Next Manuscript: Optimal Use of Word and EndNote,sponsored by HumaniTech and UCI Libraries; workshop description
• and by request to Joan Ariel, jariel@uci.edu, for History graduate students and faculty.