Getting started on your research paper? You should check out the essays in the encyclopedias and handbooks to get background on an event, a person, or an era. Use Albert, the Library catalog, to find books that can also provide some great background information.
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. (Ref 973.03 C490) Armonk: New York: Sharpe Reference, 2006.
Encyclopedia of American Social History. (Ref 973.03 C318) 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1993.
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. (Ref 973.903 K969) New York: Garland, 1994.
Handbook of American Women's History. (Ref 305.409 H831) 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.
1960s Counterculture in America. (Ref 973.922 H1802) Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias: American History - Scholarly essays on a variety of topics-- browse to get ideas.
Sixties in America - an ebook encyclopedia from Salem Press.
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