1. Learning from fellow travelers: using secondary sources.
2. Exploring remnants from past times: primary sources
Limit by publication date.
Keywords that will help you find primary sources, included those reprinted at later dates:
A full-text collection resources that chronicle the development of America across 150 years that include digitized images of the pages of magazines and journals.
Provides access to scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. Contains a digital library of images, previously known as ARTStor, in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.
An art research database containing full-text art journals, books, periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It covers art history, design, as well as photography, film and architecture.
GenderWatch is a database of periodicals and newsletters that focus on women and women's issues.
Online searching depends on matching terms, so learning the lingo used by your sources is important. Keep in mind that terminology and usage change quite a bit over time. Start with keywords you know, but keep an eye on tags, subject headings, descriptors in the bibliographic records.
Build your own thesaurus of terms you run across associated with different subjects.
