Seeing what events and issues concerned people around the time that your policy or legislation was being developed can provide a useful historical context.
This page includes links to a number of full-text newspaper resources and other resources to help wirh basic historical research.
Contemporaneous articles from popular magazines can be identified through:
Useful database for finding substantive articles on topics in American and Canadian history:
For the individual newspaper databases, you can usually
Want to find out more about some of the people involved in social history and policy development? Try some of these online biographcal resources:
Chronologies and Timelines can provide a quick overliew of major political, economic, social, and cultural events by date.