Mai 68: A Library Research Guide: Online Resources

Under the direction of Jean-François Hamel et Julien Lefort-Favreau, this issue of Études françaises 5:1 (2018) revisits May '68 through its literature.

Brief overview in English by Richard Wolin, intellectual historian at CUNY Graduate Center.

Encyclopedia entry (in French) providing a succinct historical overview of the May 68 events in France. Includes some media content such as posters and videos.

Online exhibition of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France commemorating the 50th anniversary through graphic design and political lexicon.

Illustrated book, published in 1969, chronicling the Paris events by Swiss artist Véronique Filozof now available online on a site devoted to her work.

Another good bibliography of works (in French) surrounding May 68, prepared by librarians at Science Po in Paris. The works cited include many of the canonical historical and critical treaties on May 68. Unfortunately, the list only includes works published up to 2008.

Extensive bibliography of academic articles, press articles, books, dissertations, and videos. It offers some links for online access which are not actually available for non-SciencesPo-Lyon IP addresses. However, bibliographical information is very clear, so one may easily access the signaled material through UC libraries.

Six-part forum published in French Historical Studies 51: 2 (April 1, 2018).

Selection of digitized documents -- original leaflets, magazines, and newspapers from Simon Fraser University.

Website for a series of seminars held at Yale which pay particular focus on the various artistic movements and group formations that came into being in 1968 speculating about possible links between culture and politics.

Finding aid to the Paris Student Revolt Collection at the University of California Irvine. Items cannot be accessed online, but for those who may be able to access the physical material, this is a potentially useful source of primary materials.

Documents some 158 political slogans from May '68.