American History Since 1877

Chapter 29
The 1970s: Toward a Conservative America

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• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in our Collection

• All the President's Men [by] Carl Bernstein [and] Bob Woodward. Book by Washington Post journalists who broke the story of Watergate. Primary source. [E860 .B47]
• Chain Reaction: the Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics - By Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall [JK524 .E28 1991]
• Common Ground: a Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families - By J. Anthony Lukas [F73.9.A1 L85 1985]
• The Final Days - By Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein. Published two years after All the President's Men. [E861 .W66]
• Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House by H.R. Haldeman. Primary source. [E855 .H35 1995]
• It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: the Tragedy and Promise of America in the 1970s [E169.12 .C29 1982]
• Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.9] - Series: History of the American Cinema. Also available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
• Nixon (3 volumes) [E856 .A72v.1, E856 .A72v.2, E856 .A72.v3]
  Biography. Contents include: "v. 1. The education of a politician, 1913-1962 -- v. 2. The triumph of a politician, 1962-1972 -- v. 3. Ruin and recovery, 1973-1990."
• Nixon Agonistes: the Crisis of the Self-made Man [E856 .W53]
• The Pentagon papers - "As published by the New York times, based on investigative reporting by Neil Sheehan, written by Neil Sheehan, Hedrick Smith, E.W. Kenworthy and Fox Butterfield." Primary source. [E183.8.V5 P4]
• To Set the Record Straight: the Break-in, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon [KF224.W33 S57]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library page and search the TC3 Catalog. Use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books and multimedia in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on this topic in the TC3 Library Catalog, the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• United States, Politics and government, 1969-1974
• Nixon, Richard M
• United States, Civilization, 1970-

Multimedia

• My Brother's Keeper [videorecording] [Media HC110.P63 M9 1995]
  "The Nixon Administration and the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) bring the nation to the brink of overhauling the federal social security system and replacing welfare with a guaranteed income for all citizens. When it appears the guaranteed income will be quite low, the NWRO joins an alliance of conservatives and liberals to defeat the proposed legislation."
• Richard M. Nixon [videorecording] [Media JK515 .W42 1991]
  "President Nixon discusses the presidency from the perspective of his long career in public service. Includes his views of the practical handicaps of divided government, secret diplomacy and covert operations, presidential campaigning, and relations with the media." Primary source.
• Crisis in Pictures: America, Love it or Leave it. [Picture] - "Photographs of America during the 1960s, the changing values and social uncertainties, including Vietnam potests, hippies, and political and civil upheaval." [Media HN57 .C7]

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals, also listed by subject (History & Archaeology).

Web Resources

Equal Rights Amendment - The National Organization of Women (NOW) presents the ERA amendment and background information.
Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley - "The Macintosh stands at a cusp in the history of computing and Silicon Valley: it brought together (and sometimes transformed) a number of technical and conceptual threads in computing that developed in the 1960s and 1970s, but it also was responsible for sparking new movements in computing. This project collects and publishes primary material on the Macintosh's development and early reception."
Case Name: ROE V. WADE, 410 U.S. 113 - Use search options at bottom of page to retrieve full text of Supreme Court's decision, January 22, 1973. Enter Roe in 1st box; Wade in 2nd.
Nixon Library and Museum - Primary sources.
U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian: Historical Documents - Provides access to the extensive Foreign Relations of the United States, the "official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity". Includes:
Nixon-Ford Administrations
Documents on East and Southeast Asia, 1973-1976 - Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–12
A Guide to the Unites States' History of Recognition, Diplomatic and Consular Relations by Country, Since 1776: Vietnam
Watergate Revisited - The Washington Post "provides a look back at Nixon's legacy." It includes multimedia files, a photo gallery, and archive of Washington Post stories.

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