Using the Underground Newspaper Collection



UPS Underground Newspaper Collection:

Books & Online Resources

Books About the Underground Press

Armstrong, D. (1981). A Trumpet to arms: Alternative media in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Call Number: P92.U5 A68

Birmingham, J. (1970). Our time is now: Notes from the high school underground. Introd. [by] Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. New York: Praeger. Call Number: LB3605 .B5

Davenport, C. (2010). Media bias, perspective, and state repression: the Black Panther Party. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dennis, E. (Ed.). (1971). The Magic writing machine: Student probes of the new journalism. Eugene, School of Journalism: University of Oregon. Call Number: PN4867 .M317

Estren, M.J. (1993). A history of underground comics. Berkeley: Ronin Publishing.

Glessing, R. J. (1970). The underground press in America. Bloomington, IN: University Press. Call Number: PN4888.U5 G5

Kessler, L. (1984). The dissident press: Alternative journalism in American history. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. Call Number: PN 4888 .U5 K47 1984

Kindman, M. (2011). My odyssey through the underground press. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.

Lewes, R. (2003). Protest and survive: Underground GI newspapers during the Vietnam War. Westport: Conn: Praeger. Call Number: DS 559.46 .L48 2003

Lewis, R. (1972). Outlaws of America: The underground press and its context. Harmonsworht: Penguin. Call Number: PN 4888 .U5 L48 1972b

McMillian, J. (2011). Smoking typewriters: The sixties underground press and the rise of alternative media in America. New York: Oxford University Press. Call Number: PN 4888 .U5 M35 2011

Morea, Ben. & Hahne, B. Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker: The incomplete works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group. Oakland: CA: PM Press.

Ostertag, B. (2006). People’s movements, People’s press. Boston: Beacon Press.

Peck, A. (1985). Uncovering the sixties: The life and times of the underground press. New York: Pantheon Books. Call Number: PN 4888 .U5 O88 2006

Rips, G. (1981). UnAmerican Activities: The campaign against the underground press. San Francisco: City Light Books. Call Number: PN4745 .U5

Streitmatter, R. (2001). Voices of revolution: The dissident press in America. New York: Columbia University Press. Call Number: PN 4888 .U5 S77 2001

Stewart, S. (2011). On the ground: An illustrated anecdotal history of the sixties underground press in the U.S. Oakland: CA: PM Press. Call Number: Z 1033 .U58 O5x 2011

Wachsberger, K. (2011). Insider histories of the Vietnam era underground press. (2nd ed.). East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.

Online Resources

Liberation News Service (LNS) Archive

Digitization of LNS packets



The Realist Archive Project:

The Great Speckled Bird Digital Archive (Georgia State University)



Freeing John Sinclair

Digitized copies of the Ann Arbor Sun (The SUN)- Also photos & sound recordings



GI Newspaper Covers (Supporting materials for the film Sir! No Sir! which was produced, directed and written by David Zeiger)



It’s About Time: Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni

Click on “BPP Newspapers.” Also, click on “Emory’s Art” to learn more Emory Douglas, artist of the Black Panther Newspaper



The Rag Blog (edited by Thorne Webb Dreyer)



Underground Press Syndicate Facebook Group (Chip Berlet)



The Thomas King Forcade Story (17 video interviews by Steven Hager documenting the life of Forcade, former leader of the UPS)



C-Span2’s BOOKTV video of John McMillian discussing Smoking Typewriters: the Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America:



Underground Press Syndicate Facebook Page:



The Los Angeles Free Press:



Dissertations on the Underground Press/ Underground Newspapers

Lewes, J. & Hardt, H. (2000). Protest and survive: An analysis of the influence and effect of GI-produced underground newspapers on the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. (Doctoral dissertation). The University of Iowa.

Slonecker, B., Filene, P.G., Cantwell, R. Chafe, W.H., Dowd, J. et al. (2009). Living the movement: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the New Left, 1967-1981. (Doctoral dissertation). The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

McMillian, J. & Brinkley, A. (2006). Smoking Typewriters: The New Left’s print culture, 1962-1969. (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University.

Frazier, S. (1972). The utopian vision of the Movement, 1968-1970: A thematic analysis of selected underground newspapers. (Master’s Thesis). The America University.

Harvey, M., Clark, A., Thomas, C., Wigley, S. (2010). The evolution of “The Rag”: An analysis of the social, political and technological influences on the birth of one underground newspaper in the 1960s. (Master’s Thesis) The University of Texas at Arlington.

Pifer, M., Cottom, D. Dissent: Detroit and the underground press, 1965-1969. (Doctoral dissertation). The University of Oklahoma.

Ostertag, R., Lee, R. (2005). People’s Movements, people’s press: The journalism of social justice movements in the United States. (Doctoral dissertation). State University of New York at Binghamton.

Lovell, B. (1999). Stoney Burns and “Dallas Notes”: Covering the Dallas counterculture, 1967-1970. (Master’s Thesis). University of North Texas.

Brody, L., Hall, J. J. (1998). The red suitcase: Hippies, pinkos and vagabonds. (Doctoral dissertation). The University of Connecticut.

Ruvinsky, M., Szanto, G. (1995). The underground press of the sixties. (Doctoral dissertation). McGill University (Canada).

Ashe, F. Tichi, C. (1991). Only poet-warriors: Rewriting the sixties. (Doctoral dissertation). Vanderbilt University.

White, M. (1986). Social and political upheaval as reflected in the underground press of the 1960s. (Master’s Thesis). The University of Texas at El Paso.

Wickboldt, M. (1975). Police and Courts: Themes of individualism and authority in the underground press. (Doctoral dissertation). The University of Texas at Austin.

Feldman, S. (1973). The high school underground press: Content analysis, member attitudes, and beliefs. (Education dissertation). University of California, Los Angeles.

A sample of a *few* of the newspaper titles mentioned most in the books above (omits papers not in the UPS Collection)

|San Francisco Oracle |Oracle of Southern Caifornia (Los Angeles) |

|Los Angeles Free Press |Village Voice (New York, New York) |

|Berkeley Barb |Berkeley Tribe |

|East Village Other (“other” than the Village Voice) (New York, New |New Left Notes (Chicago, Illinois) |

|York) | |

|Big Muddy Gazette (Carbondale, Illinois) |The Chicago Seed |

|Avatar (Boston, Mass) |The Fifth Estate (Detroit, Michigan) |

|Quicksilver Times (Washington, D.C.) |Kaleidoscope (Madison, Wisconsin) |

|Ole Mole (Cambridge, Mass) |Washington Free Press(Washington, D.C.) |

|Middle Earth (Iowa City, Iowa) |Realist (New York, New York) |

|Rising Up Angry (worker’s rights)(Chicago, Illinois) |The Paper (East Lansing, Michigan) |

|The Great Speckled Bird (Atlanta, Georgia) |The Kudzu (Jackson, Mississippi) |

|The Rag (Austin, Texas) |The Movement (San Francisco) |

|Rat (women’s libeRATion) (New York, New York) |Off Our Backs (women’s liberation)(Washington, D.C.) |

|It Aint’ Me (women’s liberation)(Berkeley, California) |Vietnam GI (Chicago, Illinois) |

|The Black Panther Intercommunal News (San Francisco) |OM (GI newspaper) |

|The Mother Earth News (ecology)(Madison, Ohio at the start of |Northwest Passage (Community co-ops) (Bellingham, |

|publication) |Washington) |

|Washington Free Press (Washington, D.C.) |Georgia Straight (Vancouver, Canada) |

|Black Dwarf (London) |IT (London) |

|Gandalph’s Garden |OZ (London) |

|The Sun (Ann Arbor Sun) (Detroit) |Inquisition |

|Ain’t I a Woman (women’s liberation)(IOWA) |Dallas Notes |

|NOLA Express (New Orleans) |Off Our Backs (women’s liberation) (Washington D.D.) |

|Space City News (Houston) |San Francisco Express Times |

|Other Scenes (London/ New York)Editor, John Wilcock |Washington Free Press |

|Gay Sunshine (San Francisco) |Gay Insurgent (Pennsylvania) |

|Fusion (Boston) |Distant Drummer (Philadelphia) |

|Dine Baa Hani (Arizona) Navajo |Detroit Gay Liberator |

Using the Underground Newspaper Collection in the Houston Cole Library

The Underground Newspaper Collection is located on the 2nd floor in Newspapers/ Microfilm. Call Number: Z 6944 .U5 U52x. Use the Underground Newspaper Microfilm Collection Table of Contents to locate reel no. for a specific newspaper. The guide is located on the 2nd Floor Reference Location. Call Number: Z6944.U5 U53x

Online Tutorial on using the Underground Newspaper Collection:



................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download