HISTORICAL INDEXES
Magazines/Journals/Newspapers Exercise






I. Using American Periodicals, 1741-1900 (King Ref PN 4877 .H65 1979) find a journal or periodical on one of the following subjects:

freemasons antislavery
women's or men's fashion eighteenth century fiction
any religious group music/art
medicine



Summarize the description of the publication and record the time period the publication covers.








II. Using Index to Early American Periodicals (Historical Indexes/Online), Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (in paper, King Index), and Pooles Index (Historical Indexes/Online) look up articles on one of the topics listed below.


pornography obstetrics hysteria
murder small pox drugs
disease prostitutes/prostitution treason
reformation electricity sex




Cite at least three examples, one from each of the sources.


















III. Look up one of the events/topics below in both the New York Times Index (King Index) and the Times (London) Index (AI 21.T46). Compare their coverage. How does it differ in the amount of time the story was covered and in the number of articles? What subject was the topic listed under? Were they different. Choose an article from each index and look up the microfilm. Is the tone of the article noticeably different? Is the evidence presented different, depending on what country the story originated in? Are facts wrong or misrepresented? Be sure to cite your two articles.

Pearl Harbor (1941) Titanic (1912)
Invasion of Austria by Hitler Atomic Bomb/Hiroshima (1945)
Ernest Hemingway's suicide (1961) Discovery King Tut's Tomb (1922)
assignation of Abraham Lincoln(1864) San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
Lindbergh baby kidnapping(1932) Custer and Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)
League of nations established (1920) famine in India (1897)
Zulu War ends (1879) Sudan independence (1956)































IV. Use one of the following full text indexes and look up a topic of your choosing. Remember that each index covers different publcations and time periods, so it is illogical to look for information on WWII in the database Harpweek which covers the Civil War Era.


Select a database:

Accessible Archives HarpWeek CIS History Universe


Describe your results -- ie. how many, what types of materials, how readable, etc.