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:
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• 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)