J300: The United States and the Pacific Wars: Social and Cultural Consequences

See also “history” subject page:

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5420&subjectId=41

IUCAT:
The Indiana University online catalog. To link to this resource use:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38591

America: History & Life:

Best for secondary sources, America: History & Life covers the history of the United States and Canada from pre-history to the present, indexing more than 2000 journals published worldwide, dissertations and reviews. Coverage: 1964-present. To link to this resource use:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=14

Contemporary Newspapers:

MOST NEWSPAPERS ARE NOT INDEXED NOR DIGITIZED, especially local newspapers.  To see an overview of what newspapers are available online see Jeff Graf's Old News website:

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=6018 

To find whether IUB owns a newspaper for a specific city, search IUCAT by keyword, i.e.: terre haute {752}.  Most of these will be on microfilm, located in the Wells Library, East Tower 2.

Proquest Historical Newspapers: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=7328040  You can search individual papers or all of them.  This includes among others:

New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers):

The full text of the NYT, images of pages and articles, search and limit by date and article type. Use Lexis-Nexis for last two years. Coverage: 1851-2003. To link to this resource use:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59571

Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers):

The full text of the Los Angeles Times, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Coverage: 1881-1985. To link to this resource use:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1051792

Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports 1941-1996

FBIS Daily Reports constitutes an archive of translated transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news.

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=5299346

Magazine / Periodical Literature:  Probably 80% is available online BUT NOT ALL. 

[For print use IUCAT, search by title, identify call number and location, go to the appropriate floor in Wells.  Browse issues from the 1940's and 1950's. 

Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982:

Provides access to citations from 512 of the leading United States journals from 1890-1982. Coverage: 1890-1982To link to this resource use:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38601
[See Tips for Using these Databases at the bottom of this page]

Periodicals Archive Online

Covers all topics generally included in the humanities and social sciences. It is international in scope, and includes more than 60 non-English journal titles, with new titles continually added. 17th Century -present.

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1854914

Statistical Sources:

Historical Statistics of the United States:
Provides historical statistics for the states and the nation. To link to this resource use:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2219458

American Factfinder:
American Factfinder lets you search, browse, retrieve, view, map, print, and download Census data from the 1990 and 2000 Dicennial Census as well as current surveys. To link to this resource use:
http://factfinder2.census.gov

For historical Census volumes, i.e. 1940, 1950 see: http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html

Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States A report comparing native and foreign born populations for selected censuses. Topics include: age and sex, nativity, citizenship status, race and Hispanic origin, and languages spoken at home. Includes background discussion and references.

U.S. Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service.  Yearbook of Immigration Statistics.  For 1940s through 1980s see: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000546059;  For 1980s-2002 see: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002973860; for after 2002 see: http://www.dhs.gov/archives

TIPS:

- Try to track down the fulltext of a few articles; for example, if you click the IU Link button below R.L. Wertman’s “Simmy Works for Me Now,” you should be able to click on the Article link under Links to content and read the PDF Full Text on EBSCO's Academic Search Premier.

- If IU Link does not take you straight to the fulltext, try clicking on Check for availability in IUCAT to see if it is available in print; for example, if you are looking for Robert Shaplen's "Reporter at Large" in IU Link, it will not be available in electronic fulltext. But if you click Check for availability in IUCAT, the third listing shows IU to have the periodical from 1936-2008 in the bound volumes. Feel free to Ask a librarian for further assistance.