ABC-CLIO Solutions Academic Editions

Highlights

• Coverage spans the humanities, from core disciplines like American history to emergent fields of study, including modern genocide and popular culture.
  All material is authored by accomplished academics and vetted by database-specific advisory boards, while daily updates across the suite ensure that database content evolves to reflect changing understandings and developments in the field.
  Both browsing and linear learning are supported by the databases' topic center structure, with each topic center housing a variety of relevant content including primary sources, reference material, and journal articles.
  Targeted research is served by the federated search engine, which pulls content from across multiple databases to connect students with any and all applicable material. Researchers can then apply advanced search filters to locate the precise resources they seek.
  Built-in tools are available to support and streamline the research process, including the cite tool for instant citation generation and the CLIOview feature for comparative data analysis.

Richard Hall received his PhD in history from Auburn University in 2011. He is an adjunct professor of history at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. He specializes in American political and popular culture of the Cold War. He has taught courses in intellectual history utilizing superhero comic books, and on popular television and films of the Cold War era. Hall's dissertation examined "The Captain America Conundrum: Issues of Patriotism, Race, and Gender in Captain America Comics, 1941–2001," and in 2017 he presented "You Can't See Me!: Batgirl and the Call of the New Woman in the 1970s" at the Popular/American Culture Association's Southwest Regional Conference. His publications include contributions to Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2011); "Art Imitates Life: Nixon as Villain in the Pages of Captain America" in The Dark Side: A Supervillain Reader (University of Mississippi Press, 2018); and the forthcoming The American Superhero: Encyclopedia of Caped Crusaders in History (Greenwood, 2019).

Edward J. Lordan is a professor of communication studies at West Chester University, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has a bachelor's degree from West Chester University, a master's degree from Temple University, and a doctorate from the Newhouse School At Syracuse University. Lordan has taught courses in communication theory, public relations, advertising, political communication and media history for two decades at five different universities. He has published more than two dozen papers in academic publications as well as three books: Essentials of Public Relations Management (Burnham, Inc. Publishers), Politics, Ink: How American Editorial Cartoonists Skewer Politicians, From King George III to George Dubya (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), and The Case for Combat: How Presidents Persuade Americans To Go To War (Praeger), which traces the history of presidential war rhetoric in America.

Tiffini Travis, MLIS, is the adviser for Information Literacy and library instructional assessment at CSU Long Beach. She is responsible for facilitating campus-wide information literacy initiatives and developing strategies for assessing the impact of library instruction on student success. Additionally, she is the subject liaison librarian for Communication Studies and Sociology. Her varied research interests include subcultures, information literacy in the workplace, predictive analytics for libraries, and mobile library site usability. She is the co-author of Skinheads: A Guide to an American Subculture (Greenwood, 2012) with Perry Hardy of the Templars. Travis received her BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's of library and information science from University of California, Los Angeles.

1900s: The Age of Innocence • The 1900s	1930s: The Great Depression • The 1930s	1960s: Swingin' Sixties • The 1960s	1990s: The Information Age • The 1990s
1910s: The Age of Opulence • The 1910s	1940s: The War Years • The 1940s	1970s: The Me Decade • The 1970s	2000s: Networked Nation • The 2000s
1920s: The Roaring Twenties • The 1920s	1950s: Cold War and Conformity • The 1950s	1980s: The Big Eighties • The 1980s

Reviews

"Pop Culture Universe is ... all about substance. From one perspective, it is an exceptionally clever way to repurpose existing reference content. More significantly, it also includes dozens of lengthy, original essays that are geared toward an academic audience and were written exclusively for this product. This feature makes for a resource that students and researchers of popular culture will happily explore at length."
—Library Journal

"Entertaining and informative, social studies teachers will appreciate this database. . . . Recommended."—Library Media Connection