Research and Reference Resources

Newspaper Articles from the ProQuest Database

return to main ProQuest page | Publications Search | Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 | Example 4

Example #2: I saw a column in the New York Times by David Brooks about Reagan—I’d like to read it again.

There are two ways to do this search:

method 1:

Use "Basic" search tab and connect all your search concepts with "AND" - put phrases in " " (quotations)

A list of articles about Reagan by David Brooks is below. Read through them to find the column you remember.

method 2:

Click on "Advanced" tab at the top. Use the drop down menus on the right to further limit your search. (Author means the author of the article.)

A list of articles about Reagan by David Brooks is below. Read through them to find the column you remember. The results differ from the first search because the results below include all articles listed with Reagan as the SUBJECT of the article. The above search did not specify that Reagan was the subject, so there were more results (12 compared to 4).

 

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