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A300: Politics in the Street: Rioting in US History

 

Background information

Agnew, Jean-Christophe and Roy Rosenzweig (eds). A Companion to Post-1945 America. (Blackwell Publishing, 2006) - available online in Blackwell Reference Online.

 

Boyer, Paul S., ed. Oxford Companion to United States History. (Oxford University Press, 2006) - available online in Oxford Reference Online. (Oxford Reference Online is also good for maps and timelines)

 

Layman, Richard, ed. American decades. (Gale Research, c1994-2000) - available in print, Wells Library Reference Reading Room (E169.12 .A419 1994). Provides detailed coverage of important events and themes in American history, decade by decade. While you're in the Reference Reading Room, browse this section for many other useful resources! 

 

Whitfield, Stephen J. A Companion to 20th-Century America. (Blackwell Publishing, 2006) - available online in Blackwell Reference Online.

 


Primary sources

Early American Newspapers and 19th Century Historical United States Newspapers - two searchable, digitized collections of newspapers from the 1600s to the 1920s


ProQuest Historical Newspapers - searchable, digitized collection of newspapers from the 1800s to the 2000s

 

LexisNexis Academic and Factiva - 20th- and 21st-century news media


Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 - online index to American popular magazines

 

CQ Political Reference Suite- full-text of congressional documents relating to various aspects of American history

 


Secondary sources
America: History & Life- use this online index of research on American history to find books, book reviews and journal articles on your topic

 

JSTOR - digital archive of important scholarly journals. Best results when you search with specific keywords, like names of individuals

 

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