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, 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, “Our Community, Our Library: Women, Schools, and Popular Culture in the Public Library Movement,” 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 CPP login) as Leonardo Covis, “The Radical Next Door: Los Angeles Catholic Worker during the Cold War,” 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, “The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Historiographical Study,” 2004 (Copyright Jennifer Dowland)

Primary Sources in US History

George H. W. Bush Library
George W. Bush Library
Carter Library
Clinton Library (Clinton Digital Library, including its FOIA files on the Office of Science and Technology Policy)
California Digital Library
Columbia Oral History Archives (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)
Digital Public Library of America
www.familysearch.org: A gold mine of primary sources on Americans’ immigration, naturalization, marriage, residences, and other public information, free access with registration.
FBI Freedom of Information Act Reading Room, e.g., full-text of its files on Albert Einstein.
FOIA Online (work-in-progress search engine for FOIA files across federal agencies)
Ford Library
Eisenhower Library
General Accounting Officehas apparently put all of its reports and publications online in PDF format.
Harvard Crimson(1873-present; do a search, e.g., on George Kistiakowsky, the chemist who perfected the trigger for the Nagasaki bomb)
HathiTrust Digital Library

Huntington Library (https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84m9bn1/) (Aerospace Oral History Interviews)

Johnson Library--See especially Oral History Interviews with Clark Clifford, William Colby, Walter Rostow, Dean Rusk (Vietnam), James Farmer, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolf, Roy Wilkins (Civil Rights), James Webb (Space), Stewart Udall (Environment)
Kennedy Library--See especially National Security Action Memos, JFK Correspondence with Martin Luther King, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Library of Congress, especially its “Digital Collections,” including the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, the Hannah Arendt Papers, and the Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers; most usefully, it has a collection of Historical Newspapers, including African American newspapers.
National Archives(some National Archives collections related to US State Department records dealing with Latin America in 1930-1944 are available from CPP Library’s “Archives Unbound” database by Gale)
National Security Archives
Newsweek (1933-2015)
Nixon Library
Obama Library
Online Archives of California, See, e.g., African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1963-1974, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection, or Finding Aid to El Teatro Campesino (ETC) Archivesat UCSB
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United Statesat UCSB—the best place to get presidential speeches, press conferences, and policy statements from George Washington to the present.
Reagan Library
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Saturday Evening Post (1931-present), available through CPP Library’s Academic Search Premier database
State Department of the US, especially its Foreign Relations of the United States(FRUS), with full text covering presidencies since Lincoln and up to partial records of Bill Clinton (by 2021), and its huge, searchable Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reading Room database. A complementary site for FRUS is the FRUS Project at the Univ. of Wisconsin, which covers the FRUS volumes from 1860 to 1960.
Time Magazine with access to full text from1923 to the present through CPP Library’s Academic Search Premier database
Truman Library

Primary Sources in Local History

Cal Poly Pomona Library Special Collections and University Archives
Chino Champion Chino and Chino Hills
Claremont Courier Claremont
Fontana Herald News Fontana
Fullerton News Tribune Fullerton
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Ontario
Library of Congress “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers” (1777-1963)
www.newspapers.com (links to websites of newspapers big and small in the US and the world with recent contents)
Pasadena Star-News Pasadena
Pomona Public Library, especially its Special Collections (by appointment)
Redlands Daily Facts Redlands
San Gabriel Valley Tribune West Covina

Primary Sources in History of Science and Technology

AIP History of Physics Center, especially its hundreds of oral history interviews with physicists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, including its web edition (covering 1999-present) and web archiveshosted at Google (covering 1945-1998)
Caltech Archives, especially oral history interviews with Caltech faculty members, many of whom were prominent scientists in the world
Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Collections
Einstein Papers Project at Caltech
The Digital Einstein Papersat Princeton University Press
IEEE History Center, especially its oral history interviewsrelated to computer history
Institute of Advanced Study Archives(Princeton, NJ, where Einstein and many well known scientists and scholars have worked and where J. Robert Oppenheimer served as director in 1947-1966)
Nature (1869-)
NASA History: News and Notes
National Air and Space Museum Oral History Projects
Niels Bohr Archives
Science magazine (1880-2003) for history of science and technology
Web of Stories(oral history video interviews with internationally prominent scientists, such as Hans Bethe and Dorothy Hodgkin, and other scholars, some with closed caption subtitles).

Primary Resources Available Through Cal Poly Pomona Library

Historical Los Angeles Times(1881-1986), full text articles.
Historical Los Angeles Sentinel(1934-2005), full text articles.
Historical New York Times(1851-2006), full text articles.
Times of London(1785-2019), full text articles.
JStor, especially Sciencemagazine (1880-2003) for history of science and technology
ProQuest Databases(mostly mid 1980s-), including recent NY Times, LA Times, and other newspapers and media outlets.
Gale Primary Sources, which, like ProQuest Databases, is a rich collection of individual databases, including Archives Unbound, the Economist Historical Archives (1843-2020), International Herald Tribune Historical Archives, 1887-2013, the Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Papers (1912-1990), Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, and the Times Digital Archives.
Japanese American Incarceration: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946 (ProQuest History Vault)

Secondary Sources from CPP Library

Academic Search Premier
Cal Poly Pomona LibraryBook Collections
E-book Central (Proquest)
Humanities E-book (ACLS)
JStor, especially History and History of Science and Technology subject areas
Project Muse (journal articles)

CPP Ebook Databases

Non-CPP Ebooks

Websites for History Documentaries beyond YouTube:

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

Internet Archives (https://archive.org/details/movies?tab=collection): including many PBS documentaries, such as The Genius that Was China (Nova 1990); Bioterror (Nova 2001 2h version); Einstein Revealed (Nova 1997); Oppenheimer (A&E 1995)

www.dailymotion.com:

Life Story (Double Helix) Part 1 and Part 2 (BBC 1987)

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