Magazine and Newspaper Articles from the 1960's
The library's Newspaper and Magazine Databases site provides databases which allow you to search for newspaper and magazine articles published in the 20th century and earlier, including the 1960's.
- Historical Newspaper Coverage. Scroll to the bottom of the page for access to individual newspapers published in the 1960's, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
- Historical Magazine Coverage. Scroll down to Readers' Guide Retrospective for access to the major magazines published in the 1960's.
Possible Combinations of Search Terms
Some suggested search terms for the "Historical and Political Context Project" assignment, which can be used in the databases listed above and below. To try to focus these issues to the 1960's, you could try adding AND 1960* to the search statement. Example: "women's rights" AND 1960*
- (contracept* OR "birth control") AND (law OR legal OR right*) AND pill
- nixon AND kennedy AND election
- "cuban missile crisis"
- (a) "medgar evers" (b) birmingham AND bomb* (c) "martin luther king" AND assassin*
- "women's rights"
- stonewall AND riot*
- "vietnam war"
Articles from Scholarly and Professional Publications
Mostly valuable for scholarly/academic and professional articles published in recent years, including studies of political and social issues in the 1960's.
The first database in this list, Academic Search Complete, may suffice for many topics in the class, although more specialized coverage is offered in other databases.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Excellent starting point. Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 16,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of sociology and its sub-disciplines, with very good coverage of related areas of study, especially politics. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
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Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Nearly 600,000 entries from over 2,000 periodicals and other sources, dating back to the 1970's, on the "core disciplines in Women's Studies." Materials include: journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; reports, theses and dissertations; book chapters; and more.
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Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to over 600 journals in communication, mass media, and related fields, as well as books, reports, dissertations, and other resources. Includes full-text articles from over 500 journals.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowCovers business journals, magazines, and newspapers. About 7,000 publications, over 2,000 of which are peer-reviewed journals, as well as other resources.
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Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
Full-text content of more than 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals, covering "issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world" -- constitutional law, criminal justice, environmental law, commercial law, ethical issues, etc. Chronological coverage varies among sources, with some extending back to the early 1990's.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher.
Getting an Article's Text
In many cases, an entry in one of our databases will direct you to the complete text of an article.
But what do you do when the text is not immediately available? How do you know if we have access to an article?
This link, found in many databases, will take you to a page which will present your options, which may include (1) other databases, and/or (2) interlibrary loan.
Interlibrary Loan
This option enables W&L students and faculty to get copies of articles or other materials -- without charge -- from other libraries across the U.S. Click here to begin. (For more information, see this page.)
Does W&L Have This Magazine (or Journal or Newspaper)?
You usually can answer this question by searching our Full Text Journal List.