Resource Guides

Pathfinders

News Databases

EBSCO databases, especially Newspaper Source Plus and Academic Search Complete .  These are also flexible enough to allow searching by date, even if you don’t have any search terms, but only back to 1994. Searchable from home with a password.

Lexis Nexis Academic:  This requires at least one search term and permits you to limit that search by date.  It contains the New York Times full text back to 1980, with indexing back to 1969; Newsweek back to 1975;  Christian Science Monitor back to 1980; etc.  Searching Lexis can be a little tricky. Call a Reference Librarian at 343-7770 if you need help.  To search from home, your computer must be able to authenticate through the college IP address.

Wall Street Journal: Daiy paper, online from 1984 through today's paper.  To search by date, enter through the Journals link from the library home page .

Useful Websites

www.brainyhistory.com   This web site enables searching by date for events, births, and deaths (they do not promise to include your birthday). 

American Memory:  From the Library of Congress (more selective, and your search controls the day but not the year)

See complete list of Useful Websites.

Print Access By Specific Date

Day By Day Series from Facts on File,  D427 .L4  1977 Reference

Day by Day: The Forties, Thomas Leonard, edited by Richard Burbank and Steven Goulden. New York: Facts on File, 1977. D840 .M47 1979 Reference

Day by Day: The Fifties, Jeffrey Merritt, edited by Steven Goulden. New York: Facts on File, 1979.  D840 .P277 1983 Reference

Day by Day: The Sixties.  Thomas Parker and Douglas Nelson. New York: Facts on File, 1983.  D848  .L4 1988 Reference

Day by Day: The Seventies.  Thomas Leonard, et al. New York: Facts on File, 1988.  D848  .M45 1995 Reference

Day by Day: The Eighties.  Ellen Meltzer and Marc Aronson. New York: Facts on File, 1995. 

Some Other Printed Chronologies and Related Titles:

Facts on File.  D410 .F3  Reference.  Stratton Taylor Library has 1983-2005.

American Decades 1900-1909 through 1990-1999.  E 169.12 .A419  Reference, published between 1994 and 2001.  Various authors and editors. Detroit, MI: Gale Research.  (Each vol. contains several chronologies with specific dates, near the front of the book.)  (Companion volumes include selected primary documents, E 169.1 .A47 Reference).

Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates, 10th edition.  E 174.5 .C3 1997 Reference,  Gordon Carruth. New York: HarperCollins.

Chronology of African American History from 1492 to the Present, 2nd edition.  E 185 .H64  1997 Reference,  Alton Hornsby, Jr. Detroit: Gale Research.

Chronology of Native North American History from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present.  E77 .C555 1994 Reference. Duane Champagne, editor. Detroit: Gale Research.  

Chronology of European History, 15,000 B.C. to 1997  D11 .C57 1997 Reference, John Powell, editor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press.

Chronology of World History, Prehistory through 1998 in 4 volumes.  D11 .M39 1999 Reference.  Almanac of American History.  E174.5 .A45 1983.  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

American Book of Days, 4th edition.  GT4803 .D6 2000,  Stephen Christianson. New York: H. W. Wilson.

Readers Guide to Periodical Literature. RSU Library has March, 1955 to the present.  This is a listing of articles in magazines.  You will need to obtain the actual article either from a database, or from our print or microfiche collection, or let us get it for you by Interlibrary Loan from another library (or, you might wish to use some other library in person, but we can help you figure out ahead of time whether your article will be there).

News Sources on Microfilm and Microfiche

• New York Times 1974-1982, 1985-1995.
• Newsweek  1981 – present (Lexis goes back farther)
• U.S. News and World Report, 1979 – present
• Time 1981 – present
• National Review 1980 – 2002.
• New Republic 1980 – present.