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America: History & Life
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Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier
This database includes articles from many women's studies and feminist journals.

To search for articles in Academic Search Premier about a particular individuals in the suffragist movement:

• click on subject terms

• click on the people tab

• enter the name of the person you are researching in Browse For search box using the format last name, first name, then click on Browse

• place a check mark in the box next to your subject's name (you can see that there are 61 articles about Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
• click on the Add button at the top of the results list

• Your subjects name will appear in the Find search box
• Click on the Search button

America: History & Life

America: History & Life
A good source for articles on American History. Use the Article Linker button to find full text articles if a link to full text is not shown.

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center
This database offers full text articles from a number of women's studies journals but is somewhat tricky to search. Use the keyword search option for both names of particular individuals and concept search terms. When the results appear

• click on the "Literacy Criticism, Articles & Work Overviews" tab
• then click on the green "Articles" button to view the list of relevant articles.

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If you would like to find more articles - ask a librarian if she/he can provide you with access to the New York State Library databases which include

• 19th Century Masterfile - An index to nineteenth century (1802 to 1906) newspapers
• African American Newspapers:The 19th Century - The database consists of six newspapers: The Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, Frederick Douglass Paper, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, and The Christian Recorder. Dates covered are 1827-1902
• America's Historical Newspapers - Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states. The over 150 New York newspaper selections include newspapers from Albany, Ballston Spa, Cooperstown, Hudson, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Schenectady, Sing-Sing, Troy, and Utica.
• America's Newspapers: New York - Full text coverage of a wide range of New York State newspapers from Albany, Batavia, Binghamton, Buffalo, Elmira, Ithaca, Lewisboro, Long Island, New York City, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Saratoga, Suffolk county, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Watertown, and Westchester county.
• Historical Newspapers - Full text of the New York Times (December 1851- December 2001).
• JStore - a comprehensive collection of full text articles from social science and humanities scholarly journals.