Suggested reference materials:

• Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices. 2 vols. (IC)
• Encyclopedia of activism and social justice. 3 vols. (SSRC)
• Encyclopedia of American activism, 1960 to the present. (IC)
• Encyclopedia of the American left. (IC)
• Encyclopedia of politics: the left and the right. (IC)
• The International encyclopedia of revolution and protest: 1500 to the present. 8 vols. (IC)
• Student political activism: an international reference handbook. (IC)
• Youth activism: an international encyclopedia. 2 vols. (IC)

Suggested subject words:- limit by adding country or state

• College students or College teachers and political activity
• Education, Higher Political aspects United States
• New Left United States
• Persuasion rhetoric (narrow search by using “political aspects”)
• Political participation
• Political activists
• Radicalism
• Social change United States history 20th century
• Student movements history United States
• Students + university (name) + history
• United States politics and government 1945-1989

Series:
People, passions, and power

Some books/microfilm to check out:

• FBI file on the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman Underground Organization [microform]. 8 reels. Guide in SSRC, microfilm in Media/Microtext
• Harlem vs. Columbia University: black student power in the late 1960s. (Education Library)
• Stanford in turmoil: campus unrest, 1966-1972, by former President Richard Lyman, in IC and stacks
• Students for a Democratic Society: a graphic history. (Education Library)
• Profiles in service: Stanford undergraduates write about students engaged in public service. (University Archives)

Tip: Check SEARCHWORKS for books with the call number of L (Education); usually in the Education Library; some materials in IC, HASRC, SSRC; can also be in SAL 1/2 (off site but not off campus) or SAL3 (off campus)

Films:

• Issues & ideas. Reflections on student activism, 1960s to 1990s: a talk by David Harris. 2001. (ZVC = video cassette, view in MEDIA-MTXT)
• The true source of knowledge these days. (Stanford, the true source of knowledge) Student life in mid-1960s, including UC Berkeley. Made in 1966. ZDVD 19390

Suggested journals/ejournals:
FIND FULL TEXT in Searchworks record for online access:

• Chronicle of higher education
• Mobilization: the international quarterly review of research in social movements, protest, and contentious politics
• Radical history review
• Social movements studies
• Z magazine (Boston, Mass.) - related website: Z magazine: the spirit of resistance lives!

Suggested databases:

• Academic Search Premier
• The Nation Digital Archive, 1865 to current.
• Online Archive of California - includes materials from our Special Collections and University Archives, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, and UC Berkeley
• Oral History Online- check under Historical Events
• Research Library - from ProQuest, add more databases by clicking on upper left-hand corner, including PAIS (political science), Philosopher's Index, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Special Stanford resources:

• American History collection: Ben Stone, Subject Specialist; See his American history pages and his Blog
• Special Collections and University Archives: Good descriptions in database Online Archive of California, includes things like records of Stanford Against Conscription (SAC) – Students against the Draft, etc.
• Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Library has Underground newspaper collection. 476 reels plus supplements, covers 1963-1989. Includes Berkeley Barb, 1965-1980. Also papers of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), as well as their journal New left notes; Young Spartacus (Socialist student group in N.Y., 1973-1986)

Websites:

• Free Speech Movement Digital Archives from The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
• Student activism in the 1930s
• Student protests in 1960s Chapel Hill (University of North California)

All-purpose Databases (your starting points for finding articles on any topic)

Click on the "Search Database" or "Search Inside" link

• Academic Search Premier
• JSTOR

News media

• Access World News (US and World: print media, and newswire, radio, and television transcripts)
• AltPress Watch; Gender Watch; Ethnic Newswatch (alternative points of view)
• Proquest Historical Newspapers
• American periodicals series online. 1740-1900
• Facts on File World News Digest: U.S. and world news : 1940-present (you can look for the big stories of the year/decade; you can see news and related sources on current and historic events)

Topical Databases

TIP: Use a variety of Databases to locate articles because different databases cover different subjects, viewpoints, and types of sources.

• Art: Art Full Text
• Business: Business Source Complete
• Communication: Communication studies
• Education: Education Full Text and ERIC
• History: America History and Life with Full Text and Historical Abstracts with Full Text
• Literature: MLA International Bibliography
• Music: RILM Music Literature Abstracts
• Politics and Policy: PAIS International
• Psychology: PsycINFO
• Science, Arts, Humanities, Social Science: ISI Web of Knowledge
• Sociology and Popular Culture: Sociological Abstracts
• Statistics: Proquest Statistical Insight
• United States Government: Congressional Publications

TIP: If you don't see a Full-Text or PDF link for an article in your results, use the link to see your other options for Full-Text or print.

Recommended Online Reference Sources

• Gale Virtual reference library (multidisciplinary)
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (scholarly articles)
• Blackwell Reference Online (with authoritative scholarship in the humanities and social sciences)
• Oxford Reference Online (Oxford University Press publications)
• Reference Universe (searchable database; all subjects)
• The Debatabase Book: a must-have guide for successful debate

Print Reference Sources
See also the print reference collections in the IC (Information Center), the HASRC (Lane Reading Room) and the SSRC (Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room).