Library Guide to the 1950s:
Post World War II

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The 1950s - a complex decade conjured up by words, phrases, images, and sounds that are still relevant in the 21st century. This guide is intended to highlight some topics that helped define the decade:

The Cold War	"Domino theory"	Korean War
Postcolonialism	IndoChina (Vietnam)	Interstate Highways
Suburbs	Affluence	Brown vs. Board of Education
Civil Rights Movement	The Beats	Action Painting
Cinema	"The Third Man"	"Dr. Strangelove"
Baby Boomers	Rock 'n' Roll	Disneyland
Science Fiction	Space Exploration	Television
Transistors	DNA	Polio Vaccine
Plastics	Senator Joe McCarthy	Blacklisting

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To Find Books

Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:

Arts

• Abstract Expressionism
• Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
• Kline, Franz, 1910-1962
• Krasner, Lee, 1908-
• De Kooning, Willem, 1904
• Rhythm and Blues
• Rock and Roll
• Beat Generation
• Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
• Ginsberg, Allen, 1926
• Burroughs, William S., 1914

Politics

• Anti-Communist Movements - United States
• Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954
• Communism - United States
• Internal Security - United States
• McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
• Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 - Correspondence
• Subversive Activities - United States
• United States - Congress - House - Committee on Un-American Activities
• United States - Politics and Government - 1945-1953
• United States - Politics and Government - 1953-1961
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
• Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959
• Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
• New Towns
• Philby, Kim, 1912-
• Suez Canal
• Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
• Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
• Mao Zedong, 1893-1976
• Zhou Enlai, 1898-1976
• Indochinese War, 1946-1954 - United States
• Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, Điên Biên Phu, Vietnam, 1954

Science/Technology

• Antibiotics
• DNA
• Crick, Francis, 1916- (Keyword Search)
• Watson, James D., 1928-
• Genetics - History
• Biotechnology - History (Keyword Search)
• Poliomyelitis - U.S. - Prevention
• Poliomyelitis Vaccine
• Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
• Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954
• ENIAC - MOBIUS only
• Transistors (1947)
• NASA (1958)
• Sputnik (October 4, 1957)

Societal Changes

• Civil Rights Movement
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957)
• Brown v Board of Education (1954)
• Baraka, Imamu Amiri (Leroi Jones)
• Ellison, Ralph (The Invisible Man, 1952)
• Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 (The Outsider, 1953)
• Feminism
• Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908 (The Second Sex, 1949)

To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the Location Guide.

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To Find Articles

Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students, faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.

General

• ArticleFirst (FirstSearch) 1990 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Links to full text 1997 - present.Cites journal articles and provides a limited number of full-text articles on a variety of topics, including business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide.
• Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) 1861 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1963 - present (Includes UMKC dissertations and theses only).
  "The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year." Selected full text for UMKC dissertations and theses is available. [Source: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database information page; accessed January 3, 2007.]
• Grove Art Online is now part of Oxford Art Online    Save to del.icio.us
  Full text.Provides global coverage of all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the present. The print version is The Dictionary of Art located in Miller Nichols Library Reference at Ref N31 .D5 1996, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, which is not held by the UMKC Libraries.
• Grove Music Online is now part of Oxford Music Online.     Save to del.icio.us
  Full text.Provides authoritative articles covering all aspects of music and biographical information on musicians. Incorporates the revised and updated texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
• JSTOR 1838 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Full text. Coverage varies by title.
   New   Additional journals are now available with the addition of these collections: A&S Complement, A&S V, and Business II.
  Contains fully searchable scanned articles from selected journals in a broad range of disciplines, including African-American studies, art, ecology, economics, education, history, law, literature, music, general science, sociology, and statistics. (To see a complete list of discipines and journal titles, link to the JSTOR browse list.) Covers the full run of journals from the first issue of volume one; however, the most recent three to five years of journals are not generally available.
• LexisNexis Academic 1969 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1980 - present.Provides citations and abstracts or the full text of materials covering general news topics, company research and financial data, industry analysis, government and politics, taxation, and the law. Available resources include newspapers, magazines, journals, business reference materials, case law, law reviews, and industry reports. Link to LexisNexis Academic user's guide.
  
  
• MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost), 1975 - present; coverage varies by title      Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1975 - present; coverage varies by title. Provides full text for more than 2,100 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,800 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 635 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,135 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications. [Source: MasterFILE Premier Database Information Screen, June 23, 2005]
  Link to EBSCOhost web user's guide.
• OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1994 - present.Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
• Project MUSE (Premium Collection)     Save to del.icio.us
  Full text 1993 - present.
   New   Additional journals are now available with the upgrade to Project MUSE Premium Collection. Supplies full-text articles from scholarly journals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
  Ref Index Wall 2 AI3 .R48

Contemporary Sources (Magazines & Newspapers)

• Kansas City Star (NewsBank) 1991 - present.      Save to del.icio.us
  Full text 1991 - present. A fully searchable database of articles from the Kansas City Star. The newspaper is available 1885 - present on microfilm on the Miller Nichols Library First Floor.
• Life
  (1936-1969) Ground Floor Microfilm Periodical
  (1936-1972) Periodical f Periodical
  (1936-1987) Special Collections Periodic Periodical
• Look
  (1947-1971) f Periodical
  (1950-1952, 1954-1971) Special Collections Periodic Periodical
• The New York Times (1857-)
  1st Fl Mfilm Periodical
• The New York Times Index (1913-)
  Ref Index Wall 2 AI21 .N452
• Personal Name Index to the "New York Times Index" (1851-1974)
  Ref Index Wall 2 Z5301 .F28
• St. Louis Post Dispatch (NewsBank)      Save to del.icio.us
  Full text 1988 - present. A fully searchable database of articles from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The latest three months of the newspaper are also available in paper format at the Access Services Desk on the Miller Nichols Library First Floor.
• Times (London) (1785-)
  1st Fl Mfilm Periodical

Art/Art History/Design/Architecture

• Art Full Text (Wilson) 1984 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1997 - present.Contains citations and abstracts of articles from peer-selected art journals. Full-text is available from selected journals. The print version, Art Index, is available in Miller Nichols Library Reference at Ref Z5937.A78.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA) 1934 - present, with selective coverage back to 1741.     Save to del.icio.us
  Includes citations from international journals on architecture, archeology, city planning, interior design, furniture and decoration, and historic preservation.
• Bibliography of the History of Art (FirstSearch) 1973 - present.     Save to del.icio.us Indexes and abstracts art-related periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and exhibition and dealer's catalogs, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present.

Biography

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index. 1995. Accessible only from the computers in the Information Commons on the First Floor of the Miller Nichols Library. Ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.
  Indexes sources of biographical information for people from the beginning of time to the present. Provides name of the biographee, birth and death years, and the source of further biographical information.
• Biography Index (FirstSearch)
  Note: This database is no longer available.
  Cites biographical articles on individuals from antiquity to the present. In addition to journal articles, the database includes citations to selected books of individual and collective biography as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews are also included. Link to FirstSearch Web user's guide.

Business/Economics

• ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) 1971 - present.     Save to del.icio.us.
  Selected full text 1985 - present. ABI/INFORM Global indexes and abstracts over 2,770 publications in the area of business and management, with full text available for over 1,840 titles. Publications range from magazines to trade publications to scholarly journals. Full text is also available for the Wall Street Journal.
  
  
• Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost) 1922 - present; coverage varies by title     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1922 - present; coverage varies by title. "Provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.... The database also includes …country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, and CountryWatch” as well as the OECD. Detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies are generated from Datamonitor reports incorporating SWOT analysis. Market research reports emanate largely from Gartner. [Source: Business Source Premier Database Information Screen, June 23, 2005]
  Link to EBSCOhost web user's guide.
• OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1994 - present.Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
• Social Sciences Index
  Ref Index Wall 2 Z7161 .S6

Education

• Education Full Text (Wilson) 1983 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1996 - present."Education Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994." [Source: Education Full Text database description, accessed June 15, 2006] The print version of this database is Education Index. The volumes for 1929 - 1999 are located in Miller Nichols Library, Ref Index Wall Z5813 .E23.
• ERIC (CSA) 1966 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Links to selected full text, 1993 - 2004. "The ERIC ( Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational- related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.... Major areas of coverage include: Adult, Career, and Vocational Education; Counseling and Personnel Services; Elementary and Early Childhood Education; Education Management; Handicapped and Gifted Children; Higher Education; Information Resources; Junior Colleges; Languages and Linguistics; Reading and Communication Skills; Rural Education and Small Schools; Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education; Social Studies and Social Science Education; Teacher Education; Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation; Teacher Education; Test, Measurement, and Evaluation; Urban Education." [Source: ERIC Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005]
  Link to ERIC user's guide.

History

• America: History and Life (EBSCOhost) 1964 - present.      Save to del.icio.us
  Indexes and abstracts articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. "Each year over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide are scanned for relevant articles of special interest to students of U.S. and Canadian history and related fields. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews from a selection of over 100 key journals in U.S. and Canadian history." [Source: America: History and Life on the Web, accessed May 15, 2006] Link to America History and Life user's guide.
• The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
  Ref D20 .A55 1995
• Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) 1954 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1954 - present.Indexes and abstracts articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Link to History Abstracts user's guide.
• Humanities Index (1974-1997)
  Ref Z5579 .H8
• International Index to Periodicals (1920-1955)
  Ref Index Wall 2 AI3 .R488
• OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1994 - present.Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
• The New York Times Index (1913-)
  Ref Index Wall 2 AI21 .N452
• Social Sciences and Humanities Index
  Ref Index Wall 2 AI3 .R49

Literature/Film/Theater

• Film Literature Index
  Ref Z5784.M9 F45
• International Film Archive (SilverPlatter) 1972 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), this collection contains several databases: FIAF Members Publications, Index to Film Periodicals, Index to TV Periodicals, International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections, List of Periodicals Indexed, and Treasures from the Film Archives.
• MLA International Bibliography (Chadwyck-Healey) 1884 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  An index to scholarship in literature, linguistics, film, folklore, and cultural studies. The print version of this bibliography is available in the Miller Nichols Library and covers 1921 - 1999. The location and call number are Reference Index Wall Z7006 .M64. See the MLA Directory of Periodicals for a list of periodicals indexed.

Music

• International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (Chadwyck-Healey) 1874 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1993 - present.
  Note: searches of this database are now through Music & Performing Arts Online.Covers a broad range of aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
• International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text (Chadwyck Healey) 1864 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text, content varies by title.
  Note: searches of this database are now through Music & Performing Arts Online.
  Indexes articles related to theatre, dance, music, television and film in popular and scholarly journals in the performing arts. Includes full text for selected titles. Link to International Index of the Performing Arts user's guide.
• Music Index Online 1979 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Offers access to articles in music periodicals on a broad range of subjects, including past and present personalities, the history of music, forms and types of music, musical instruments from the earliest times to modern electronic instruments, plus computer produced music. The print version 1949 - present is available in Miller Nichols Library Music Ref ML118 .M84.
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (FirstSearch) 1969 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  International in scope, RILM covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. The printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 1967 - present is available in Miller Nichols Library Music Ref ML111 .R2. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide.

Politics

• Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) 1954 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1954 - present.Indexes and abstracts articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Link to History Abstracts user's guide.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Current edition.     Save to del.icio.us
  The ICPSR, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is a membership organization that provides access to the world's largest computerized social science data archive, training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques, and resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies. For more information about UMKC's membership in the ICPSR, see the Libraries' information about the ICPSR Data Archive Service.

Science/Technology

• General Science Index
  Ref Index Wall 1 Z7401 .G46
• OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Selected full text 1994 - present.Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

Sociology

• Sociological Abstracts (CSA) 1963 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  "CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Major areas of coverage include: culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; and women's studies." [Source: Sociological Abstracts Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005]

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Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Bibliographies

Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions, and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.

All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted. Titles are linked to the corresponding MERLIN Library Catalog record.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Dictionary of American History	Ref E 174 .D52
The Dictionary of Art	Ref N 31 .D5
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	Music Ref ML102 .P66 G84
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music	Music Ref ML102 .P66 G84
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology	MNL Ref Q121 .M3
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz	Music Ref ML102 .J3 N48
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians	Music Ref ML100 .N48
The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century	Media A/V MV 86:2

Bibliographies

Archives of American Art

Ref Z6611 .A7 M3

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Government Publications

All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted.

• GPO Access Current edition.     Save to del.icio.us
  Full text. A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office, this database provides access to information products produced by the federal government, including the Federal Register, Public Laws and the Congressional Record. "The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted." [Source: GPO Access homepage, accessed June 21, 2006.]
• GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) 1976 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
  Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, the catalog offers bibliographic citations for all types of U.S. government publications: reports, hearings, statistics, and documents issued by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government, commissions, and other U.S. governmental organizations. The print version, the Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications, for 1900 - present is located in Miller Nichols Library in the Government Publications Alcove GP3.8/8:. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide.

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Web Resources

• The 1950s All Electric House
  Johnson County, Kansas, Museums
  (www.jocomuseum.org/electrichouse.htm)
• The 1950s: Era of the Mass Disease Campaign
  UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
  (www.unicef.org/sowc96/1950s.htm)
• The Alan Turing Home Page
  Compiled by Andrew Hodges
  (www.turing.org.uk/turing/)
• EDSITEMENT: The Best of the Humanities on the Web
  Links to significant Internet sites in the areas of literature, history, foreign languages, and art history.
  (edsitement.neh.gov/)
• The Crucible and McCarthyism:
  • Web English Teacher
    Arthur Miller
    (www.webenglishteacher.com/miller.html)
  • Why Did Arthur Miller Write The Crucible?
    An analytical essay by Jean-Christophe Broudin
    (www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/4191/MILLER/millers.html)
  • Why I Wrote The Crucible: An Artist's Answer to Politics
    By Arthur Miller
    (warren.dusd.net/~dstone/Resources/11P/M_NY.htm)
• History in Song - Late 1940s & 1950s: Spy Craze, "Witch" Hunts & the Korean War
  (www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/1950s.html)
• Jackson Pollock, 1912-56, National Gallery
  (www.nga.gov/feature/pollock)
• The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
  (www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html)
• Mandela Speaks - Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela, 1950s
  (www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1950s/)
• Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
  (www.npg.si.edu/)
  • Current Exhibitions
    (www.npg.si.edu/cexh/index.htm)
  • Rebel Painters of the 1950s
    (www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/painters.htm)
  • Rebel Poets of the 1950s
    (www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/poets.htm)
• A Tribute to the 100 Greatest Film Scenes
  • 1950s page 1
    (www.filmsite.org/scenesG.html)
  • 1950s page 2
    (www.filmsite.org/scenesH.html)
• Truman Presidential Museum and Library
  President Harry S. Truman (1945-1952).
  (www.trumanlibrary.org)
  • Project Whistlestop
    Online Presidential education.
    (www.trumanlibrary.org/educatio.htm)

Use search engines linked on the Internet Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.

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Document Collections

• UMKC University Libraries Special Collections and Marr Sound Archives
  Miller Nichols Library, room 411
  Research collections include the history of Kansas City (1951 flood); papers of Congressman Richard Bolling; Truman Library Research Files; photographs documenting history of jazz, and other aspects of Kansas City history.
  • Kansas City: Paris of the Plains
    Web exhibit.
  • MARR Sound Archives
    Miller Nichols Library, room G11
    Research collection includes original sound recordings: popular music, spoken word, jazz of the 1950s, and early rock n' roll documenting American social and cultural history.
  • Club Kaycee
    Sights and sounds of the golden age of Kansas City jazz, from the sound archive and music collection of Miller Nichols Library.
  • Presidential Studies Collection at UMKC
    Sponsored by the Truman Presidential Museum and Library and the UMKC Miller Nichols Library
    Special Collections Department
    • About the Collection
      • Student Research Files "B Files"

• Library of Congress
  (www.loc.gov/)
  • American Memory Collections
    • All Collections 1950-1969
      • Architecture and
        Interior Design for 20th Century America
        Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner1935-1955
      • Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
        From the American Folklife Center
      • Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
      • By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
      • William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
    • Online Exhibitions
      • African-American Odyssey
      • For European Recovery: the 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
      • The Work of Charles & Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
    • Recorded Sound Section
      From the American Memory's American Women site
      • Voice of America
        51 microfilm reels. "Voice of America" broadcast scripts from the U.S. Information Agency covering 1953-1980.
        (lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awrs9/voa.html)
      • Complete Collection available at Center for Research Libraries, microform (use InterLibrary Loan).

• Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  Translations of news and commentary from broadcast, news agency transmissions and occasionally from newspapers. Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, 24 February 1947 - March 1967. Available at Center for Research Libraries, microform (use InterLibrary Loan).
  (www.newsbank.com/public/fbis.html)
• Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
  (www.siris.si.edu)

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