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History Guide: Find Articles & Web Pages

Resources for students

Use Databases to Find Articles

  • Academic OneFile
    Articles from thousands of magazines, newspapers, and peer-reviewed journals. Includes the New York Times newspaper as far back as 1985.
    How to Use
  • Black Life in America
    The impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media
  • Gale In Context: College
    Magazines, newspapers, journals, critical essays, vocational and technical periodicals, biographies, video, images, audio, and primary source documents.
  • Gale in Context: U.S. History
    Primary sources, country and era overviews, magazines, journals and encyclopedias.
  • Hispanic Life in America
    Impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today. In English and Spanish. Noticias hispanoamericanas de 1704 hasta la actualidad. Hay articulos en ingles and en espaƱol
  • JSTOR
    Includes Artstor images. JSTOR is an article archive. It does not include current articles. The collection includes Open Access, and Archival & Primary Source collections.
  • National Geographic
    Current issues and archive of National Geographic magazine. Includes image and advertisement searching. Coverage: 1888 - present.
  • ProQuest Central
    Includes articles in academic journals, newspapers, and general interest magazines. Click on Databases (4) to select specific databases or subject areas to search within.
    How to use ProQuest

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Web Sites

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For example, try searching for Sixties United States.

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