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Hist 17A and 17B Dr. Kutras - Biographies

This guide offers resources to assist in locating information on famous U.S. individuals.

Databases

Searching for articles in JSTOR

Search commands

 

* Asterisk

Use to find all forms of a root word

Increases the number of articles retrieved

biograph*

for biographical, biography

child* 

for childhood, child, children

" " Quotation marks

Use to enclose a phrase or name

Decreases the number of articles retrieved

"campaign reform"

"young adult"

OR  

Connects related terms

Increases the number of articles retrieved

(child* OR "young adult" OR young)

(child* OR education OR legacy)

AND  

Combines ideas 

Decreases the number of articles retrieved

"Oliver Cromwell" AND (child* OR youth OR "young adult")