HISTORY 90-11: ERA OF McCARTHYISM
ESSAY ASSIGNMENT RESEARCH TOOL
Selected Databases and Indices for Historical Research
ASA, the Lehigh University Online Catalog
Search ASA to locate books, documents, journals, magazines and other materials in the Lehigh Collection.
Readers Guide Retrospective - Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. It covers 1890- 1982 and replaces the printed editions of the Nineteenth Century Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and the later Readers Guide to Periodical Literature.
Periodicals with coverage during the 1950's available at Lehigh Libraries.
(Focus on popular culture/business or politics)
| Title | Format | Location | Call number |
| American Magazine of Art | Bound (B) | Linderman (Lind) | 705 A51 (1931-36) |
| American Mercury | B | Lind | 051 A51 |
| Architectural Record | Film (F) | Fairchild Martindale (FM) | |
| Atlantic Monthly | B | Lind | 051 A881 |
| Business Week | F | FM | |
| Fortune | B | FM | 650.5 F744 |
| Harper's | B | Lind | 051 H293 |
| Life | B | Mini Linderman | 051 L694 (1936-; vol. 1 in Special collections) |
| National Geographic | B | Lind | 910.5 N27 |
| National Republic | B | Lind | 051 N277 (1925-1936) |
| Nation | F | FM | |
| New Republic | F | FM | |
| Newsweek | F | FM | |
| Reader's Digest | F | FM | |
| Saturday Evening Post | F | FM | |
| Theatre Arts | B | Lind | 792.05 T37 |
| Time | F | FM | |
| Vital Speeches of the Day | B | Mini Linderman (1940-1959); Lind | 808.505 V836 (1934-1951) |
While many of the electronic databases have full-text to articles available, be sure to use the Lehigh Links (SFX) technology to determine if you can get to the electronic full text or if the Lehigh Library has the printed publication available. See this guide "Locating the full text of articles using SFX" for instructions.
Citation Format
For help with the Chicago/Turabian citation style, visit the University of Wisconsin's Chicago/Turabian Documentation site.
Prepared by Roseann Bowerman , Social Sciences Librarian;
Revised Nov. 2005 by Natalie Balaziuk , Graduate Intern
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