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1960s:

Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Below are archives and libraries with 1960s collections. For additional resources, see American History: Archives, Libraries, and Museums.

• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

• Museum at Bethel Woods

• Museum of the Sixties

• Sixties Museum

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1960s:

Associations, Organizations, and Institutes

See American History: Associations, Organizations, and Institutes.

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1960s:

Audio and Video Resources

For additional resources, see American History: Audio Resources.

• LBJ White House Tapes (C-span)

• Media Archives on Demand (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum)

• Television Commercials ca. 1950s-1960s (Internet Archive)

• Vincent Voice Library (Michigan State University Libraries)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard M. Nixon

• YouTube
  You Tube contains too many videos relating to the 1960s to list here. Some search words to use: jfk, lbj, woodstock, moon landing or search a particular year like 1969.

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1960s:

Background

Sometimes you may need some information to get more familiar with your topic. Below are some materials that can provide background on the 1960s. The resources listed at American History: Background may be helpful, also. If you need help finding background information, please ask at the Hunt Library reference desk.

• American Cultural History 1960-1969 (Kingwood College Library)

• Battlefield Vietnam (PBS)

• CIA and Vietnam PolicyPolicymakers: Three Episodes 1962 - 1968 (Central Intelligence Agency)

• Cuban Missile Crisis (Cyril Buffet)

• Going Back to Chicago (PBS)

• Harris, Norman. The Sixties: a Black Chronology. Athens, Ga.: Black Resource Center, c1990.
  HUNT REF-1 E185.615 .H287 1990

• McCleary, John Bassett. The Hippie Dictionary: a Cultural Encyclopedia (and phraseicon) of the 1960s and 1970s. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, c2004.
  HUNT REF-1 HQ799.7 .M28 2004

• Nostalgia Central: the Sixties
  Overview of the decade, timelines for every year.

• Parker, Thomas and Douglas Nelson. Day by Day: the Sixties. 2 vols. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, c1983.
  HUNT REF-1 D840 .P27 1983

• The Pill (American Experience, PBS)

• Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change (Special Collections Department, University of Virginia)

• RFK (American Experience, PBS)

• Riots-1967: Newark and Detroit (Max Herman, Rutgers University)

• Singleton, Carl, ed. The Sixties in America. 3 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, c1999.
  HUNT REF-1 E841 .S55 1999
  Full Text:The Sixties in America (Carnegie Mellon users only)

• Sixties (Annenberg Media)

• The Sixties (University of Miami)

• The Sixties: The Years that Shaped a Generation (PBS)

• Timeline: 20th Century: Seventh Decade: 1960-1969 ( School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota)

• Vietnam Online (PBS)

• Watts Riot (PBS)

• Weather Underground (PBS)

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1960s:

Journal and Magazine Articles

Below are resources specifically for the 1960s. See American History: Journal and Magazine Articles for essential resources on any aspect of American History.

• Ethnic Newswatch: History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1959-1989
  Search and display the full text of ethnic, minority, and native press from 1959-1989.

• Readers' Guide Retrospective (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1890-1982

If full text links for journal articles are not provided, click on to see retrieval options. This is only for journal article citations, and may not be available in all databases. Otherwise, use Cameo and the Find e-journal list to see if materials available to you. If they aren't, you can use Illiad to obtain the material.

If you need help finding journal articles on your topic, ask the reference staff at the Hunt Library reference desk.

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1960s:

Newspapers

Below are newspapers dealing spefically with the 1960s. For essential newspapers resources that cover all periods of American History, including the 1960s, see American History: Newspapers.

• Ethnic Newswatch: History (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1959-1989
  Search and display the full text of ethnic, minority, and native press from 1959-1989.

• Historical New York Times (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1851-(current-3 years)
  Search Historical New York Times and Historical Wall Street Journal simultaneously.

• Historical Wall Street Journal (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1890-1992
  Search Historical New York Times and Historical Wall Street Journal simultaneously.

• Pittsburgh Courier (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1911-2002

• Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
  1895-present

• Times Digital Archive (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  1785-1985

• Underground Newspaper Collection.
  ca. 1960s-1970s.
  Hillman Library Microforms (Ground Floor) (Non-circulating), University of Pittsburgh
  Search Pittcat with the title underground newspaper collection to see titles in the collection. Accompanied by booklet published under title: Underground Newspaper Microfilm Collection. Table of Contents, <1963-1981>-1963-1984; under title: Underground press collection. Listing of contents, 1963-1985.
  

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