Research Guides: SW 525: Social Welfare Policy: History of Social and Economic Justice (UNH Durham): Historical & Contemporaneous Resources

Newspapers

You can search by keyword and limit your search to a range of dates

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Formerly National Newspapers Expanded, provides detailed indexing and access to articles, editorials, etc. in newspapers from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC as well as the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. Dates of coverage: 1980-current

Biographical Information

Want to find out more about some of the people involved in social history and policy development? Try some of these online biographcal resources:

American National Biography
Generally covers influential Americans who died 1995 or earlier. Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 may be added quarterly.
Biography in Context

Popular Magazines

Contemporaneous articles from popular magazines can be identified through:

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos touching on all disciplines.
Reader's Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Dates of coverage: 1890-1982

Finding Scholarly Articles in History

Useful database for finding substantive articles on topics in American and Canadian history:

America: History and Life with Full Text
Index to sources on the history, social, cultural life, of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Why Use?

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.