General reference collections of from more than 1,700 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcript titles, plus a collection of over 7 million maps, pictures, weblinks, and audio/video files.
Magazines, journals, and newspapers focus on a specific aspect of a topic. Therefore, what you type into the search box needs to be specific.
Select the most important 2-3 terms related to your topic. Put the word AND between each new term; this tells the database to look for resources with ALL your terms.
frederick douglass AND statesmanship
Use quotation marks ( " " ) around phrases (two or more words); this tells the database to look for the words in that specific order.
"underground railroad" AND Tubman
This video by Yavapai College Library in Prescott, Arizona demonstrates the different types of information found in Google versus library databases.
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