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Western Civilization--European History, Empire

Customized guides to research for specific courses in Western civilization and European history

    Markarian, Vania. “Debating Tlatelolco: Thirty Years of Public Debates
       about the Mexican Student Movement of 1968.” In Taking Back the
       Academy! History of Activism, History as Activism
, edited by
       Jim Downs, 25-34. New York: Routledge, 2004.

    Poniatowska, Elena. Massacre in Mexico. Columbia: University of
       Missouri Press, 1991.

    -------. La Noche De Tlatelolco: Testimonios De Historia Oral.
    México, D.F: Ediciones Era, 1998. LA 430 .T55 P6 1998 Fl. 2

    Search the full online catalog

       Student political activity - Mexico

       Tlatelolco massacre

    Cohen, Robert. Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the
    Radical Legacy of the 1960s
. Oxford, 2009.

    Freeman, Jo. At Berkeley in the Sixties : the Education
    of an Activist, 1961-1965
.
Indiana University Press, 2004.

    Cohen, Robert, and Reginald E. Zelnik. The Free Speech
    Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
. Berkeley:
    University of California Press, 2002.

    Search the full online catalog

       Free Speech Movement

       Mario Savio

      


Berkeley vs Governor Ronald Reagan (from Historic NYT)

 

Life Magazine (Sept. 21, 1953-Dec. 29, 1972)
     (be certain to click the box marked "search all issues")

The Eagle (American University Student Newspaper)

Rolling Stone Index: Twenty-five years of Popular Culture 1967-1991
AI 21 .R65 1993 REFERENCE (Fl. 1)

Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature. 
AI 3 .R48  REFERENCE (Fl. 1) 1925-2004.

Sample results—student activism and Mexico

Sample results—Mexico and 1968

Sample results--Tlatelolco Massacre

Boler, John F. "Behind the Protests at Berkeley." Commonweal 81, no. 19 (1965): 602-605.

Turner, Wallace. 1964. "Berkeley Students Stage Sit-in to Protest Curb on Free Speech." New York Times Dec. 3, 1964.

Documentary and Archival Film

Tlatelolco

Mexico's 1968 Massacre: What Really Happened?
(All Things Considered, NPR; December 1, 2008)

Elena Poniatowska: Genre of Collective Testimony.

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and ’68. Films Media Group, 1998. (in Spanish)  

El Grito, Documental del Movimiento Estudantil, Mexico 1968, UNAM.

(removed for copyright)

 

 

    Berkeley

    Berkeley in the Sixties (Films Media Group, 1990)  

    Jack Weinberg (October 1, 1964)

    The Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience in Berkeley 1964
     Clip from "Decision in the Streets" (1965)

Recommended Scholarly Journals

Hispanic American Historical Review (Duke University Press)
The Americas (Cambridge University Press)
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Latin American Research Review

Journal of Latin American Studies

Radical History Review
Journal of American Studies


Recommended Magazines

New Republic
Dissent Magazine
Ramparts Magazine
Monthly Review
Partisan Review

Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City 1968

Keywords: Tlatelolco massacre; student activism; Mexico; “Movimiento Estudiantil”; 
National Autonomous University of Mexico; UNAM

Sample scholarly article

Liebman, Arthur. “Student Activism in Mexico.” In Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Students Protest, edited by Philip G. Altbach, 159-171.  Philadelphia, PA: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1971.

Frazier, Lessie J. "Mexico '68: Defining the Space of the Movement, Heroic Masculinity in the Prison, and "women" in the Streets." Hispanic American Historical Review. 83 (2003): 617-660.

Harris, Chris. "Luis González de Alba's Los días y los años (1971) and Elena Poniatowska's La noche de Tlatelolco (1971): Foundational Representations of Mexico ’68." Bulletin Of Latin American Research 29, suppl. no. 1 (2010): 107-127. http://bit.ly/1LcXfEq

Free-Speech Movement University of California, Berkeley

Keywords:  Free Speech Movement; FSM; student activism; student protests; Students for a Democratic Society; Berkeley; Mario Savio; Stanley Fish; Jack Weinberg

Sample Scholarly article

Draper, Hal and Nathan Glazer, "FSM: Freedom Fighters or Misguided Rebels?" New Politics 4 (1965): 25-51.

Gatti, Arthur. "Mario Savio's Religious Influences and Origins." Radical History Review  71 (1998): 122-132.

Hijiya, James A. "The Free Speech Movement and the Heroic Moment." Journal of American Studies 22, no. 1 (1988): 43-65.

Spring Hill College Digital Collections

https://libguides.shc.edu/digitalcollections/home

   Includes the Springhillian, Yearbooks, College catalogs, the Torch,
  
and several student literary publications

Free-Speech Movement

Free Speech Movement Archives  http://www.fsm-a.org/

*Free Speech Movement (FSM) Digital Archives
     (Bancroft Library, UC-Berkeley)

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/

Free Speech Movement Photographs Collection
     (from Online Archive of California)

 

Tlateloco Massacre

Doyle, Kate. “Tlatelolco Massacre: Declassified U.S. Documents on Mexico and the Events of 1968. “ National Security Archive, The George Washington University, 2005-2011. Web 10 Sept. 2015.  http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB10/nsaebb10.htm

Poniatowska, Elena. La Noche De Tlatelolco: Testimonios De Historia Oral. México, D.F: Ediciones Era, 1998.
     LA 430 .T55 P6 1998 Fl. 2

Decade Studies

Underground Press

Student political activity

Sixties worldwide

Historiography of the Sixties

Articles from JSTOR

Heale, M. J. "The Sixties as History: A Review of the Political Historiography." Reviews in American History 33, no. 1 (2005): 133-52.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30031497

Gosse, Van. "Consensus and Contradiction in Textbook Treatments of the Sixties." The Journal of American History 82, no. 2 (1995): 658-69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2082198