Historical Finds - Newspapers and databases
Newspaper articles can serve as a primary source of information for historical events. You can investigate how people responded to current events, identify patterns over time, and examine subjects within the context of their time.
Exercise 1:
Use Newspapers.com World Collection database and search for one of the museums listed below.
- The Charleston Museum
- The Peale Museum
- The American Museum/ Barnum Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- American Museum of Natural History
- Dallas Museum of Natural History
- The Field Museum
Answer the following questions
- How is the text and other information arranged on the page?
- What details indicate when this was published?
- What details suggest where this was published?
- What do you see other than news articles?
Exercise 2:
Use Jstor to look up a topic.
Check out AM Explorer database
- Newspapers.com World Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to 4,000+ historical newspapers from the United States and other countries, dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s.
- JSTOR: the scholarly journal archive This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to important scholarly journals and books in many different disciplines.
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new window
Provides access to AM's collection of primary sources spanning the 15th -21st centuries.
