HIST 3270/4000: 1960s America
Primary Sources
American Decades: Primary Sources, 1960-1969Volume 7: 1960-1969
Main Level: R 973.9 Am35A suppl.
From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It.Upper Level: 973.923 F925F
The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious DecadeAvailable through PASCAL Delivers
Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations with Those Who Shaped the EraUpper Level: 306.0973 C421S
1960s Counterculture: Documents DecodedMain Level Reference: R 303.484 W679N
Newspaper Databases
- New York Times Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text & full-image of NYT articles with coverage from 1851 to 2015.
- U.S. State Department Central Files [Confidential], Europe and Latin America, 1960 - 1969 This link opens in a new windowContains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats in foreign countries: reports on political, military, and socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; important letters, instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel; and reports and translations from foreign journals and newspapers.
- Proquest Historical Primary Sources This link opens in a new windowSee the Digital National Security Archives collections for access to Primary Sources relating to the Cold War. Some examples include: The Berlin Crisis, CIA Covert Operations, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Kissinger Conversations, Soviet-US Relations - The End of the Cold War, and more.
Online Resources
- Avalon Project: The Cold WarIncludes documents pertaining to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet-American diplomacy, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the Warsaw Security Pact, and other related topics.
- Cold War International History Project [Wilson Center]Supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" and the non-Western world more generally with the historiography of the Cold War.
- The National Security ArchiveThe National Security Archive supplies a large quantity of Cold War primary source material accessible by country listing. Also includes the collection titled, The Carter-Brezhnev Project.
- The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.Stanford University
- FBI Documents VaultOnline resource for FBI records, containing 6,700 documents and other media, searchable by keyword or topic.