"Mass Hysteria" Research Project          Back to MC home

I. Begin with General reference resources: such as Encyclopedias in print and online, historical background books.           

II. Try subscription online databases for reference articles

Gale Infotrac Discovering on Media Center Web Page - password needed from home To get more search results: change search from Subject to Keyword or Entire Document ; or use Advanced Search.
Britannica Online http://school.eb.com/    searching for phrases with " " is helpful; capitalize AND

Reference Databases on Oct/Nov free trial - - Media Center web page:
  try Student Resource Center Gold - History Reference Center -   Opposing Viewpoints

 

 
Topic:
Sample Search Strategy
Sample Subject Headings:
Databases:
DISC EB OV
Cold War Subject keyword: Cold War
Bay of Pigs, Yalta Conference, Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall 		Cold War, 1945-1991
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
Yalta Conference, 1945 		D
Columbine High School Shootings Columbine High School Columbine High School Shootings, 1999 D, OV
Holocaust Nazi , Adolf Hitler National Socialist Party (Germany) D
Internment of Japanese Americans Japanese Americans Japanese American Internment D
Kent State Massacre Kent State Kent State University. -- Riot, May 4, 1970 D
Locherby Scotland Pan Am plane crash Pan Am Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988 D
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Martin Luther King AND assassinat*
Montgomery Bus Boycott 		  D
Red Scare - Senator Joe McCarthy Red Scare
McCarthy, Joseph
Mccarthyism
Mccarthy Hearings		 McCarthy, Joseph Raymond
McCarthyism
McCarthy Hearings, 1953		 D
Rwanda Rwanda AND genocide   D
Sacco and Vanzetti Subject keyword: Sacco Vanzetti Sacco-Vanzetti Case, 1927 EB, D
Stock Market Crash of 1929 Stock market crash, 1929 Stock market crash, 1929 EB, D
War of the Worlds "war of the worlds" War of the worlds (Radio program)
War of the worlds (Radio play)		 D
Watts Riots Watts riot Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Watts Riot, 1965
 D
World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks September 11
Patriot Act

 World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001
War on Terrorism		 D, OV
Wounded Knee Massacre Wounded Knee 1890
Ghost Dance 		Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890 EB, D-
Yellow Journalism

Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst

   D
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III. Pamphlet files:
Cold War      King, Martin Luther     Mass Hysteria (has McCarthyism articles)

IV. Suggested Books - or browse the reference section, the shelves, and the online catalog to find other books . To request other books or other copies, use the iPac . Use the library barcode number on student ID card.

 
Cold War
  See also Historical Background books
REF 909.82 COL vol 3 The Cold War 1945-1991. Gale, 1992.
327.73 WAR Warren, James. Cold War: The American crusade against world communism 1945-1991. Lothrup, Lee & Shepard , 1996.
909.82 COL Maus, Derek, ed. The Cold War. Greenhaven, 2003.
909.825 ISA Isaacs, Jeremy. Cold War : an illustrated history, 1945-1991. Little, Brown & Co., 1998.
909.82 KOR Kort, Michael. The Cold War. The Millbrook Press, 1994.
909.82 SHE Sherman, Josepha. The Cold War. Lerner Publications, 2004.  
   
Columbine Shooting
Hasday, Judy L. Columbine High School Shooting.  Enslow Publishers Inc., 2002.
  Cruz, Barbara C. School Shootings and School Violence: A Hot Issue.  Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Almond, Lucinda, Ed. School Violence (Contemporary Issues Companion). Greenhaven, 2008.
  Kreiner, Anna. Everything You Need to Know About School Violence.  Rosen, 2000.               ?
  Menhard, Francha Roffe. School Violence: Deadly Lessons . Enslow, 2000.
363.3 ONE O'Neill, Terry. Gun Control.  Greenhaven Press, 2000.
371.78 SCH Grapes, Bryan J., ed. School Violence.  Greenhaven Press, 2000.
371.782 SCH Egendorf, Laura K., ed. School Shootings.  Greenhaven Press, 2002.
see also Student Rights # 81  

Holocaust

940.53 GOT Gottgried, Ted. Martyrs to Madness:  The Victims of the Holocaust.  Twenty-First Century Books, 2000.
940.53 GOT Gottfried, Ted. Nazi Germany:  The Face of Tyranny.  Twenty-First Century Books, 2000.
940.53 ROG Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and Ashes:  The Story of the Holocaust.  Holiday House, 2002.
940.5318 FIS Fischel, Jack R. The Holocaust.  Greenwood Press, 1998.
940.5318 USC Uschan, Michael V. The Holocaust.  Lucent, 2005.
303.6 JAN January, Brendan. Genocide. Twenty-First Century Books, 2007.
   

Internment of Japanese-Americans

  Japanese American internment camps. Greenhaven Press, c2001. i
940.53 DAV Davis, Daniel S. Behind Barbed Wire: The imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. New York: Dutton, 1982.
940.5317 BUR Burgan, Michael. The Japanese American Internment: Civil Liberties Denied. Compass Point, 2006.
940.5317 KEN Kent, Deborah. The Tragic History of the Japanese-American Internment Camps. Enslow, 2008.
   

Kent State

378.771 CAP

Caputo, Philip. 13 seconds: A look back at the Kent State shootings. New York: Chamberlain Bros., 1995.
Accompanying DVD: Kent State: The Day the War Came Home - ask at desk

378.771 ERL  Erlbach, Arlene. Kent State. Children's Press, 1998.   30 p.
378.771 KOE Koestler-Grack, Rachel A. The Kent State Tragedy. Abdo, 2005.       48 p.
-378.771 KEN Kent State/May 4 : echoes through a decade. Kent State University Press, 1988. i
  Gordon, William A. The Fourth of May : killings and cover-ups at Kent State. Prometheus Books, 1990. i
973.92 GIT Gitlin, Todd. The sixties : years of hope, days of rage.Bantam Books, 1987.
REF 070.19 GAR Garner, Joe. We interrupt this broadcast : the events that stopped our lives-- : from the Hindenburg explosion to the attacks of September 11 . Sourcebooks, 2002. Includes CD with broadcast.
   

Lockerby Scotland Pan Am Plane Crash  (Pan Am Bombing)

  Cox, Matthew. Their darkest day : the tragedy of Pan Am 103 and its legacy of hope.Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. i
  Horton, Madelyn. The Lockerbie airline crash. Lucent Books, 1991. i
  Wallis, Rodney. Lockerbie : the story and the lessons. Praeger,2001. i
303.6 WIC Wicker, R. Doug. The bombing of Pan Am flight 103. Rosen, 2003.
-REF 909.82 WOR World Conflicts and Confrontations, vol. II, Africa. - brief reference
   

Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination

REF 070.19 GAR Garner, Joe. We interrupt this broadcast : the events that stopped our lives-- : from the Hindenburg explosion to the attacks of September 11 . Sourcebooks, 2002. Includes CD with broadcast.
  Abu-Lughad, Janet L. Race, Space and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Oxford, 2007.
323.092 MIL Milner, Sandra. The dream lives on: Martin Luther King Jr. Metro, 1999.
323.4 TIM I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King in text and pictures. Time-Life, 1968.
REF 362.1 LES Lesborn, Sandy. Assassination in our Time. Peebles Press International, 1976.
323.1 WEX Wexler, Sanford. The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History.
323.092 CHI Ching, Jacqueline. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosen Pub. Group, 2002.
323.092 ROW Rowland, Della. Martin Luther King, Jr. : The Dream of a Peaceful Revolution. Silver Burdett Press, 1990.
323.092 MAR Siebold, Thomas, ed. Martin Luther King Jr. . Greenhaven, 2000.
973.049 MCK McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. The Civil Rights Movement in America. Children's Press, 1991.
364.1524 ASS Assassination. Time-Life, 1994.
Lane, Mark. Murder in Memphis. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993.i
  Melanson, Philip. The MURKIN Conspiracy: An Investigation into the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Praeger, 1989.
  see 921 KIN for other Martin Luther King Jr. biographies, including:
921 KIN Schulke, Flip, ed. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A documentary...Montgomery to Memphis . Norton, 1976.
   

McCarthyism

973.921 BRO Brooks, Philip. The McCarthy hearings. Heinemann Library, 2003.
973.921 MCC Cunningham, Jesse, ed. The McCarthy Hearings. Greenhaven, 2003.
 973.921 SCH Schrecker, Ellen. The age of McCarthyism. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002.
  Sherrow, Victoria. Joseph McCarthy and the Cold War. Blackbirch Press, 1998.  i
973.92 COL Maltz, Leora, ed. The Cold War Period: 1945-1992. Greenhaven, 2003.
973.921 SCH Schwartz, Richard. The 1950s: An Eyewitness History. Facts on File, 2003.
REF 909.82 COL The Cold War 1945-1991 , Vol. 1, Vol. 3
  ALSO look in Pamphlet file under Mass Hysteria
   

Rwanda

REF 909.82 WOR World Conflicts and Confrontations, vol. II, Africa.
303.6 JAN January, Brendan. Genocide. Twenty-First Century Books, 2007.
  Bodnarchuk, Kari. Rwanda : a country torn apart. Lerner Publications, 2000.  i
967.57104 RWA Rwanda genocide. Greenhaven Press, 2004.
323 ALT Altman, Linda. Human Rights: Issues for a New Millennium. Enslow, 2002. p102-3.
  SIRS: Human Rights, Vol. 4 - see Index
   

Sacco and Vanzetti

345.73 HIN Hinton, Kerry. The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti: a primary source account. Rosen, 2004.
345.73 MON Monroe, Judy.The Sacco and Vanzetti controversial murder trial: a headline court case. Enslow, 2000.
  Russell, Francis. Sacco and Vanzetti : the case resolved. Harper & Row, 1986.
REF 347.07 COU Courtroom Drama Vol 2.
   

Stock Market Crash of 1929

338.5 BLU Blumenthal, Karen. Six days in October : the stock market crash of 1929 . Atheneum, 2002.
330.973 THO Thomas, Gordon. The Day the Bubble Burst. Doubleday, 1979.
973.91 BUR Burg, David. The Great Depression: An Eyewitness History. Facts on File, 1996.
973.91 GOL Goldston, Robert. The Great Depression. Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.
973.91 GRE Nardo, Don, ed. The Great Depression. Greenhaven, 2000. (Turning Points in World History series)
973.91 SOU Soule, George. Prosperity Decade: From War to Depression 1917-1929. Harper, 1968.
973.91 WAT Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. Little Brown, 1993.
   

War of the Worlds
791.44 CAN Cantril, Hadley. The invasion from Mars: a study in the psychology of panic; with the compoete script of the famous Orson Welles  broadcast. Harper and Row, 1966.
791.44 KOC Koch, Howard. The Panic Broadcast: portrait of an event. Little , Brown, 1970.
823 WAR The war of the worlds : Mars' invasion of earth, inciting panic and inspiring terror from H.G. Wells to Orson Welles and beyond. Sourcebooks, 2001. Includes CD - ASK at desk.
REF 070.19 GAR Garner, Joe. We interrupt this broadcast : the events that stopped our lives-- : from the Hindenburg explosion to the attacks of September 11 . Sourcebooks, 2002. Includes CD with broadcast.
160 BAR Bartholomew, Robert. Hoaxes, myths, and manias : why we need critical thinking. Prometheus Books, 2002.
   

Watts Riots

979.4 BUR Burby, Liza N. The Watts Riot. Lucent books, 1997.
301.18 HEA Heaps, Williard. Riots USA 1765-1965. Seabury, 1966.
  Heaps, Williard. Riots USA 1765-1970. Revised edition. Seabury, 1970.
  Abu-Lughad, Janet L. Race, Space and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Oxford, 2007.
  Cohen, Jerry. Burn, Baby, Burn: The Los Angeles Race Riot, August,1965. Dutton, 1966.
  Horne, Gerald. Fire this Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s. University of Virginia Press, 1995. i
  Crump, Spencer. Black Riot in Los Angeles: The Story of the Watts Tragedy. Trans-Anglo, 1966.i
  American Decades: The 1960s.
REF 973.03 DIC Dictionary of American History, vol 8. (short article)
   

World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks
REF 070.19 GAR Garner, Joe. We interrupt this broadcast : the events that stopped our lives-- : from the Hindenburg explosion to the attacks of September 11 . Sourcebooks, 2002. Includes CD with broadcast.
  Stewart, Gail. American Under Attack: September 11, 2001. Lucent, 2002. i
  Gow, Mary. The Attack on America: The Day the Twin Towers Collapsed. Enslow, 2002.
  Langley, Andrew. September 11: Attack on America. Compass Point, 2006. i
973.931 FRA Frank, Mitch. Understanding September 11. Viking 2002.
973.931 TER Williams, Mary, ed. The Terrorist Attack on America. Greenhaven, 2003. Current Controversies series.
958.104 MUR Murdico, Suzanne J. Osama Bin Laden. Rosen, 2003.
303.625 ARN Arnold, Terrell E. and Moorhead Kennedy. Think about Terrorism. Walker, 1988.
323.09 TOR Torr, James D. Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism. Lucent, 2004.
344.73 STU Carroll, Jamuna, ed. Students' Rights: Opposing Viewpoints. Greenhaven, 2005.
355.03 NAT Cothran, Helen, ed. National Security: Opposing Viewpoints. Greenhaven, 2004.
363.32 HOM Torr, James D. ed. Homeland Security: At Issue. Greenhaven, 2004.
   

Wounded Knee (1890)

970.004 HOX Hoxie, Frederick E., ed. Encyclopedia of North American Indians. Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
973.5 MAR Marker, Sherry. Plains Indian Wars .Facts on File, 2003.
  O'Neill, Laurie. Wounded Knee : the death of a dream . Millbrook, 1993. i
  Viola, Herman J. Trail to Wounded Knee : last stand of the Plains Indians, 1860-1890 . National Geographic Society, 2003. i
   

Yellow Journalism and the Spanish American War

  Cohen, Daniel. Yellow Journalism: Scandal, Sensationalism, and Gossip in the Media. Brookfield, CT: Twenty-first Century books, 2000. i
070.5 WHI Whitelaw, Nancy. William Randolph Hearst and the American Century. Morgan Reynolds, 2004.
071 SKO Skog, Jason. Yellow Journalism. Compass Point, 2007.
973.8 PRE Prelude to the century: 1870-1900. Time Life, 1999.
973.89 DOL Dolan, Edward. The Spanish American War. Millbrook Press, 2001.
973.8 GOL Golay, Michael. Spanish-American War. Facts on File, 2003.
973.8 WUK Wukovits, John F. The Spanish American War. San Diego: Lucent, 2002.
   
Historical Background
  The 1920s. Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  The Jazz Age: the 20s. Time-Life Books, 1998.
  Gerdes, Louise, ed. The 1930s. Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  Hard Times: the 30s . Time-Life Books, 1998.
  The 1940s. Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  The 1950s. Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  The American dream : the 50s . Time-Life Books,c1998.
  Rock & roll generation : teen life in the 50s. Time-Life Books, 1998.
  Schwartz, Richard Alan. The 1950s. Facts On File, c2003.
  Stacy, Tom. The fifties. Steck-Vaughn, 1989.
  The 1960s. Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  The 1960s : opposing viewpoints. Greenhaven, 1997.
  Gitlin, Todd. The sixties : years of hope, days of rage.Bantam Books, 1987.
  Grey, Edward. The sixties. Steck-Vaughn Library, 1989.
  Turbulent years : the 60s. Time-Life Books, 1998.
  The Vietnam Era. Vol. 17: American heritage illustrated history of the United States. Silver Burdett, 1989.
  The 1970s.Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  Garrett, Michael. The seventies. Steck-Vaughn Library, 1990.
  The 1980s . Greenhaven Press,c2000.
  The 1990s. Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  Events that shaped the century. Time-Life Books, 1998.
   
 
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