Finding Sources for Investigative Reports for 166A
These are only examples to get you started. Do your own digging.
To get to helpful links: U. S. History Subject Page, UCSB library: rary.ucsb.ed u /subj/ushist.html
To get to many databases: www.library.ucsb.edu
Then click on Research, then choose from the list.
Article Indexes and Databases gets you an alphabetical list
Under L, explore Lexis-Nexis Congressional for congressional hearings and reports
Under L, explore the Los Angeles times key word search engine
Under N, explore New York Times (historical) since 1857 by key word on Proquest
Under W, explore the Wall Street Journal
We have these newspapers in the library, or you can get the article texts online at
rary.ucs b .edu/databases
New York Times (historical: 1857-1999)
Wall Street Journal (historical: 1889-1985)
Los Angeles Times (historical: 1881-1953)
Examples of searches
Say you are looking for information on the Pujo (Senate Banking and Currency) Committee investigation of a life insurance scandal in 1912-13, you’ll find
117 articles in the WSJ and 258 in NYT, just for a start. If you go to the CIS index and search under Historical Indexes by Subject using “Life Insurance,” you will get cites for the Money Trust investigation in 1913 that exposed huge abuses of insurance funds.
Say you are interested in industrial diseases and know there was a disease of match makers called “phossy jaw.” If you go to the New York Times and search for this keyword, you’ll get six articles. “Industrial diseases” gets a lot more. If you look under R for “Readers Guide Retrospective, you can find journal articles on phosphorous poisoning.
To get to congressional sources (then search by subject or keyword in congressional publications and in the congressional record, use
h t tp://web.l e x i s - n e x is. c o m /congcom p
You can also find helpful websites on www.google.com
For examples, a search for the Ludlow Massacre will take you to Rockefeller’s testimony at .org/wgbh/amex/rockefell e rs/sfeature/sf_8.html