A300: Politics in the Street: Rioting in US History
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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
Early American Newspapers and 19th Century Historical United States Newspapers - two searchable, digitized collections of newspapers from the 1600s to the 1920s
LexisNexis Academic and Factiva - 20th- and 21st-century news media
CQ Political Reference Suite- full-text of congressional documents relating to various aspects of American history
JSTOR - digital archive of important scholarly journals. Best results when you search with specific keywords, like names of individuals
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