LibGuides: AMST-203 Conflicts and Cultures in American Society: The 1970s (Wickman): Resources in the Trinity Library

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Trinity Library OneSearch
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Primary Sources

African American Periodicals 1825-1995
Features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
AM Explorer
Access millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries. New subscription as of July 1, 2019.

California Digital Newspaper Collection
A Freely Accessible Repository of Digitized California Newspapers from 1846 to the Present.

Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Historic archive of this major newspaper from 1849-2010. Updates yearly.
Hartford Courant Historical
A primary resource for news information in Connecticut's capital city, the state of Connecticut, and beyond. Covers 1764-1991.
Independent Voices
This collection of alternative press publications contains 12,992 issues comprising 388,368 pages.
Los Angeles Times
Archives of this major newspaper.
Coverage: 1881-2011 with yearly updates.
New York Times Historical Archive
Offers full-page and article images of every page, covering 1851-4 years ago. Content is added every year.
Boston Globe (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Archive of the Boston Globe
Coverage: 1872-1988
Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.
Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Complete archive from 1877-2002 with yearly updates
Vogue Archive
The Vogue Archive contains the full run of the American Vogue, 1892 to present. Every page, cover, advertisement, image, and fold out is indexed, searchable, and viewable in high-resolution color. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Women's Magazine Archive
Searchable archive of leading women’s interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st.
EBSCO Magazine Archives
Digital magazine archives of select popular magzines, including covers and advertisments.

Atlantic, Fortune, Life, New Republic, National Review, Nation, People,
Sports Illustrated, Time
Opinion Archives
Access to popular magazines from the 1970s.
San Francisco Chronicle 1869-1984 (America's Historical Newspapers)
Searchable archive of this major west coast newspaper.

Google Books/Magazines
Click the link on the search screen to "Browse books and magazines" to find popular magazines from the 1970s.
Come Out! Magazine 1969-1972
“LGBT and HIV/AIDS Activist Collections,” NYPL Digital Collections.
Archives Unbound American Indian Movement Collection

Images and Streaming Video

ARTstor
Nearly 500,000 art images of art, architecture and other forms of visual and material culture. Represents all time periods and cultures. Includes online and offline tools for faculty and students.

Best to begin by searching broadly and then narrow your search. For example, search across all the collections by artist's surname, then limit results by also searching for a primary word in the title.

DOCUMERICA from the National Archives
For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.
Connecticut Digital Archive
The Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) is a digital repository program and community dedicated to the preservation, maintenance and delivery of a wide-range of digital cultural heritage resource from memory institutions in Connecticut.

Films on Demand
Web-based digital video delivery platform that allows viewing of thousands of streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime. Available for in-class use and remote viewing.

Notes: Works best with Firefox or Internet Explorer. Use the 'email this video' feature to send a film link, not the browser link.

Searching Tips: Register on campus in order to take advantage of all features. Once registered, you may log in from anywhere.
Kanopy
Educational and feature films from major producers including California Newsreel, Criterion Collection, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber, and others. For academic use only.

Films may need to be ordered in advance before viewing. See https://commons.trincoll.edu/library/2019/08/12/changes-to-kanopy-film-streaming-library/ for more details.

These sources can be used to find images of important people, places and events that occurred in the 1970s.

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