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Sample Senior Theses:

• Jolie Valentine Matedne, “Advancing the Community: Women, Schools, and Popular Culture in the Public Library Movement,”Department of History, Cal Poly Pomona, 2001.  Winner of the Anthony Brundage Senior Thesis Award, 2001-2002. Copyright Jolie Valentine.  A revised version is published (open access) as Jolie Valentine, “,” Public Library Quarterly 24, no. 4 (2005): 45-79.  
• Lisa Calahan, "There Must Be No Idle Women: Propaganda and the Working Woman during World War II,” Department of History, Cal Poly Pomona, 2004. Winner of Phi Alpha Theta Southern California Regional Conference student paper competition prize, spring 2004.
• Bryan Musslewhite, “Beet Sugar, Cows, and Bedrooms: The Transformation of Chino from a Rural Community to a Modern Suburb,”Department of History, Cal Poly Pomona, 2005.  Winner of the Brundage Senior Thesis Award, 2004-2005.  Copyright Bryan Musslewhite.
• Leonardo Covis, “The Radical Next Door: Los Angeles Catholic Worker during the Cold War,”Department of History, Cal Poly Pomona, 2007.  Winner of the Anthony Brundage Senior Thesis Award, 2006-2007.  Copyright Leonardo Covis.  A revised version is published (access with 六色网 login) as Leonardo Covis, “,” Southern California Quarterly 91, no. 1 (2009): 69-111.
• Jonathan Lee, “Back to the Future: The Flying Car in Postwar America,” Department of History, Cal Poly Pomona, 2013. Winner of the Brundage Senior Thesis Award, 2012-2013, and of the Phi Alpha Theta Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prize for 2013.
• Nicholas A. Alanis, “Dismantling Chinese Exclusion: Chinese Diplomats, the American Republics, and the Fight against Discrimination in the 1930s and 1940s,” Department of History, Cal Poly Pomona, 2021. Winner of the Brundage Senior Thesis Award, 2020-2021.
• Anthony N. Clark, “Coercive Volunteerism: The Government, Women, and the Nationalist Drive for Food Production in California during World War I,” Department of History, Cal Poly Pomona, 2022. Winner of the Brundage Senior Thesis Award, 2021-2022.
• My T. Quach, “From Saigon to Chinatown: A Historical Study of the Chinese-Vietnamese American Community in Southern California,” Department of History, Cal Poly Pomona, 2023. Winner of the Brundage Senior Thesis Award, 2022-2023.

Sample Historiographical Papers

            Jennifer Dowland, “,” 2004 (Copyright Jennifer Dowland)

Primary Sources in US History

• (, including its )
• (e.g. Hu Shih (胡适), James Killian, Wellington V. K. Koo (顾维钧), Joshua Lederberg, Shuhua Li (李叔华), Clare Boothe Luce, Thurgood Marshall, Norman Ramsey)
• : A gold mine of primary sources on Americans’ immigration, naturalization, marriage, residences, and other public information, free access with registration.
• , e.g., full-text of its files on .
• (work-in-progress search engine for FOIA files across federal agencies)  
• has apparently put all of its reports and publications online in PDF format.
• (1873-present; do a search, e.g., on George Kistiakowsky, the chemist who perfected the trigger for the Nagasaki bomb)
• Digital Library

      Huntington Library () ()

• --See especially 
• --See especially , , and the 
• , especially its “,” including the , the , and the ; most usefully, it has a collection of , including .
• (some National Archives collections related to US State Department records dealing with Latin America in 1930-1944 are available from 六色网 Library’s “” database by Gale)
• , See, e.g., , , or Finding Aid to at UCSB 
• at UCSB—the best place to get presidential speeches, press conferences, and policy statements from George Washington to the present.
• (1931-present), available through 六色网 Library’s Academic Search Premier database
• , especially its (FRUS), with full text covering presidencies since Lincoln and up to partial records of Bill Clinton (by 2021), and its huge, searchable  database.  A complementary site for FRUS is the , which covers the FRUS volumes from 1860 to 1960. 
• Magazine with access to full text from1923 to the present through 六色网 Library’s Academic Search Premier database

Primary Sources in Local History

• Cal Poly Pomona Library Special Collections and University Archives
• Chino and Chino Hills
• Claremont
• Fontana
• Fullerton
• Ontario
• (links to websites of newspapers big and small in the US and the world with recent contents)
• Pasadena
• , especially its Special Collections (by appointment) 
• Redlands
• West Covina

Primary Sources in History of Science and Technology

• , especially its hundreds of 
• , including its web edition (covering 1999-present) and hosted at Google (covering 1945-1998)
• , especially , many of whom were prominent scientists in the world 
• at Caltech
• at Princeton University Press
• , especially its related to computer history
• (Princeton, NJ, where Einstein and many well known scientists and scholars have worked and where J. Robert Oppenheimer served as director in 1947-1966)
• (1869-) 
• magazine (1880-2003) for history of science and technology
• (oral history video interviews with internationally prominent scientists, such as  and , and other scholars, some with closed caption subtitles).

Primary Resources Available Through Cal Poly Pomona Library

• (1881-1986), full text articles.
• (1934-2005), full text articles.
• (1851-2006), full text articles.
• (1785-2019), full text articles.
• , especially magazine (1880-2003) for history of science and technology
• (mostly mid 1980s-), including recent NY Times, LA Times, and other newspapers and media outlets. 
• , which, like ProQuest Databases, is a rich collection of individual databases, including , , , , , and .
• (ProQuest History Vault)

Secondary Sources from 六色网 Library

• Book Collections
• , especially History and History of Science and Technology subject areas
• (journal articles)

六色网 Ebook Databases

• General Catalog Search

Non-六色网 Ebooks

• (Archive.org)

Websites for History Documentaries beyond YouTube:

六色网 Library’s “Academic Video Online” database has many PBS, BBC, and other documentaries.

Internet Archives (): including many PBS documentaries, such as (Nova 1990); (Nova 2001 2h version); (Nova 1997); (A&E 1995)

www.dailymotion.com:

Life Story (Double Helix) and (BBC 1987)