博88亚洲

Zuoyue Wang

Zuoyue Wang

Professor, History, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Portal on Thesis and Research

Sample Senior Theses:

  • Jolie Valentine Matedne, “Advancing the Community: Women, Schools, and Popular Culture in the Public Library Movement,”Department of History, 博88亚洲, 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, 博88亚洲, 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, 博88亚洲, 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, 博88亚洲, 2007.  Winner of the Anthony Brundage Senior Thesis Award, 2006-2007.  Copyright Leonardo Covis.  A revised version is published (access with CPP 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, 博88亚洲, 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, 博88亚洲, 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, 博88亚洲, 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, 博88亚洲, 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 CPP 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 CPP 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 CPP Library’s Academic Search Premier database

 

Primary Sources in Local History

  • 博88亚洲 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 博88亚洲 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 CPP Library

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

 

CPP Ebook Databases

 

Non-CPP Ebooks

  • (Archive.org)