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

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

• search by keyword and limit your search to a range of dates (if you wish)
• browse by date for a specific issue (use Publications tab)

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.