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Newspapers and Magazines

Popular magazines and newspapers give overviews and current information.

Newspapers allow you to track a story over time, observing such factors as changing perspectives and the build-up to critical moments. Reading newspaper stories of the same event from papers in different parts of the world may reveal varying regional or national interests and varying cultural perspectives that "flavor" or "spin" stories for local readers.

Newspaper stories have a unique structure called pyramid writing. This puts the latest information or developments at the beginning of an article, followed by progressively less current information until the last portion of the article which may provide a sweeping retrospective of an entire event or issue. If you want newspaper stories published at the time of an event in history, it is possible to find newspapers on microfilm from over 100 years ago. Here are some examples:


 

How do you find magazines and newspapers on your topic?

  

To find current magazines and newspapers articles:

To find older magazines and newspapers articles:

  • Expanded Academic Index

  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

  • Research Library Complete

  • Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1900--)

  • Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1800-1906)

  • New York Times Index (1851--)

  • Historical Index to the New York Times (1863-1905, 1913-1922)

  • Palmer's Index to the Times of London (1790-1905)

 

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