Subject Specialist:
Statistics and Data
U.S. Government Documents
814-865-0665
e-mail: sjw31@psu.edu
Subject Specialist:
Statistics and Data
U.S. Government Documents
814-865-0665
e-mail: sjw31@psu.edu
Books about social history will be found within the Library of Congress call numbers HN 1 - HN 995.
Social history and conditions, Social problems, and Social reform are the Library of Congress subject headings associated with this call number range, which will be found in the 2nd Floor Paterno Library Stacks.
These journals are indexed in Sociological Abstracts.
Note: [Penn State Libraries] indicates a Libraries' resource available to researchers with a Penn State Access Account.
Sociological Abstracts [Penn State Libraries]
America: History and Life [Penn State Libraries]
Historical Abstracts [Penn State Libraries]
Social Sciences Citation Index [Penn State Libraries]
Annual Reviews [Penn State Libraries]
American decades primary sources
multi-volume print resource - also available: American Decades online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library [Penn State Libraries]
Encyclopedia of Social History
The Access Pennsylvania Database Project makes available the Encyclopedia of Social History online.
The Eberly Family Special Collections Library provides primary source materials for researchers from Penn State and around the world.
Richard Pearce-Moses defines a primary source as: "Material that contains firsthand accounts of events and that was created contemporaneous to those events or later recalled by an eyewitness."
We hold several archival collections relevant to research into diversity and social justice. Those collections include the following:
Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists, 1941-2004 (bulk 1956-1974)
Rabin Collection Finding Aid
Jack Michael Rabin, (1945-2006), assistant professor at Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama, during the 1970s and author of more than 30 books, founded the Center for the Study of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in 1974. This collection includes records of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) (1955-1974); photographs, surveillance tapes, oral histories, and video recordings of key civil rights leaders and events.
Thomas W. Benson Political Protest Collection, 1962-2008 (bulk 1969-1971)
Benson Collection Finding Aid
Thomas W. Benson (born 1937) is a Penn State rhetoric professor, author, and filmmaker. This collection of 75 anti-war protest and political campaign posters focuses on student activism at Berkeley, California, and upstate New York in the early 1970s.
Robert Joyce Papers, 1952-1973
Joyce Papers Finding Aid
Art illustrator and photojournalist Robert Joyce worked for the National Guardian. This collection consists primarily of professional, black and white photographs documenting acts of social disobedience in America in the 1950s to 1970s.
Student activism papers: collected by Eric A. Walker, 1963-1986. (bulk 1968-1970)
Walker was the president of Penn State from 1956-1970. He collected these materials in 1986 while writing a manuscript on the student disturbances that occurred while he was president. Information covers the administration's reaction to protests, demands, and demonstrations. Types of materials include court documents, correspondence, news clippings, personal file notes, manuscript drafts, and manuscript notes.
Ken Lawrence Collection of New Left Posters, Buttons and other Materials [Finding aid forthcoming, contact Special Collections]
