History 302
20th Century
Social Movements
Library Resources
Collections of Primary Source Documents
- American Civil Liberties Union Records and Publications, 1917-1980
FILM D291, & 291a, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # KF4741.A44 and KF4741.A4401 - American Memory
Digital library of materials from the Library of Congress. - Archives of the National Federation of Settlements and Successors, 1899-1958
FILM A280, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # HV4194.A7 1990 - Columbia University Oral History Collection.
Micro 4 NYT, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee - Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1918-1977
FILM D289, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # Z7163.I7 1978 - Socialist Party of America Papers
FILM A100, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # HX81.M87 - U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Surveillance of Radicals in the U. S., 1917-1941.
FILM A219, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # UB251.U5U6
Collections Focusing on the Labor Movement
- American Federation of Labor Records, Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937
Call # FILM A116, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee - Pamphlets on Socialism, Communism, Bolshevism, 1849-1930
Call # FILM D188, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee - Papers of Eugene Debs, 1834-1945
Call # FILM A207, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # HX84.D3P36 1983 - Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers, 1934-1970, located at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
FILM A54, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # Z1251.S7G83
Collections Focusing on African-Americans & Civil Rights
- Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929
FILM A227, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # E185.8.S35 1985 - Correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division Relating to 'Negro Subversion', 1917-1941.
FILM A300, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # E185.2.U55 1987 - The Papers of W. E. B. Du Bois
FILM A121, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # E185.97.D73M4 - The Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality, 1941-1967.
FILM A120, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # Z1361.N39M46 1980 - Papers of the NAACP
FILM A434, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # E185.5.N276A2 - Universal Negro Improvement Association, Records of the Central Division,1918-1959.
FILM A353, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # E185.5.G854 1995
Collections Focusing on Women's rights
- Cornell University Collection of Women's Rights Pamphlets on Microfiche, 1814-1912
Micro 4 CORNELL, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # HQ1154.C78 - Engendering America: A Documentary History
Call # HQ1410.E54 1999, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor Paterno - History of Women (over 10,000 books as well as periodicals and photographs)
FILM D285, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee
For individual titles search The CAT - North American Women: Letters and Diaries
- Women and the Law: Women's Law Library of the Women's History Research Center.
FILM D269, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee
Printed Guide, Call # HQ1253.B38 - Women's Rights in the United States: A Documentary History
Call # HQ1236.5.U6W68, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Paterno
Reference Works
- Series: Reference Publications on American Social Movements
Search The CAT for specific titles in the Series - American Decades
Call # E169.12.A419 1994, Social Sciences Encyclopedias, 2nd Floor Paterno - Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- The Encyclopedia of American Social History
Call # HN57.E58 1993, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Paterno - The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America
Call # E185.61.E544 1998, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Paterno - Encyclopedia of Student and Youth Movements
Call # LA186.B87 1998, Education & Behavioral Sciences, 5th Floor Paterno - Encyclopedia of White Power : a Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right
HT1523.E53 2000, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Paterno - Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
Call # HA202.B87, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Paterno
Also: Historic U.S. Census Statistics, 1790-1970 - The Religious Right : a Reference Handbook
Call # HN17.5.C657U88, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Paterno
Government Publications
- Congressional Universe (Index to Congressional Hearings and U.S. Serial Set)
- Congressional Record (Debates in the U.S. Congress)
Call # J11.G5, 2nd Floor Paterno - U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1909 & 1910-1932
Call # CIS U.S. Executive, Social Sciences Library, U.S. Documents
For topics consult the printed guides, Call # J83.P87 - U.S. Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990
Call # HQ1410.H85, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor Paterno - United States Reports (U.S. Supreme Court opinions)
Call # KF101.U49, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor, Paterno
Some years online, http://www.access.gpo.gov/su%5Fdocs/supcrt/index.html - United States Serial Set (Misc. Congressional documents)
Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor, Paterno
Searching for Books
Use a Library Catalog to search for materials (books, videos, maps, etc.). You can access the library catalogs listed below by going to Books & More
- The CAT (Penn State's catalog)
- OCLC WorldCat (Libraries worldwide)
Articles -- Contemporary Publications
- Hampton University Peabody Newspaper Clipping File
MICRO 4 HAMP, News & Microforms, Ground Floor, West Pattee
For articles on specific topics consult the printed guide,
Call # CD3569.H364H36 - Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Full-text of newspapers and magazines. 1980's to present. - London Times Index, 1790-present
Call # AI21 .T46, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee - New York Times, 1851-1999
- Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-present
Call # AI3.R4, Arts and Humanities Index Tables, Pattee Level 2 - Underground Newspaper Collection
FILM A158, News & Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Articles -- Secondary Sources
- America: History & Life (Articles published since 1954 in history journals)
- C.R.I.S, 1838-1974
Z6205.C2, Arts & Humanities Index Tables, Pattee Level 2 - History Cooperative
- JSTOR (full text from selected journals in History, Political Science, Economics, etc.)
- MUSE (Recent years of articles from selected journals in all fields)
Questions????
Ask at the Reference Desk, 2nd Floor Arts and Humanities Library, OR contact:
Eric Novotny, Humanities Librarian for History 814-865-1014 ecn1@psu.edu, IM: HistoryLibrarian