Dissent in America: HIST 0849/0949

The following databases contain historical access to full-text newspapers.

Use these and the magazine databases below for the Library Project to discover how a particular act of dissent in American history was covered by at least three different sources at the time of the event.

• Use specific names of individuals, places, events, and organizations.
  • Women may be referred to as Miss or Mrs. + [Last name] in older publications, without their first name.
• Use Advanced Search to limit by date; Get this information from the biographical and reference sources
• Think about alternative phrasing, language used during the time period; build your list of terms as you read secondary and primary sources
  • protest = riot = mob
  • draft = conscription
  • Black Americans = Negroes = Colored People