 Hi, my name is Alex and in this tutorial I'm going to walk you through some of the basics of searching for articles on historical newspaper databases. In doing so, I'll also show you how to search one specific database, ProQuest Historical Newspapers. ProQuest Historical Newspapers includes full text access to some of the largest most well-known papers in the country, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. At this point it's important to point out a few tips for searching on historical newspaper databases. First, you'll almost always want to control the publication date on your searches. On ProQuest Historical Newspapers you can choose anything from all dates to a specific date range. Second, you always want to be mindful of the terminology that you use when searching. If you're doing historical newspaper research you'll want to make sure that you're using the terms and terminology that newspaper writers and editors would have been using during the historical period that you're researching. In this day and age no one really uses the term Reds anymore, but in the 1950s at the high of the Cold War it was a fairly commonly used term and therefore a potentially viable search term. To put this all into practice, let's say that I need to do some newspaper research about the First Boar War. A quick Google search will tell you that the conflict occurred roughly between December 16th, 1880 and March 23rd, 1881, so that gives us a good starting point on ProQuest. Your Google search will also tell you that the conflict had several names like the Trans Ball War and the Trans Ball Rebellion, which gives us some search terms to use later. And here's an example of where our terminology matters. A search for First Boar War with our date range brings back no results because no one called it that while it was going on. Instead, let's try searching for something like Boar or Trans Ball and Rebellion or War. The Or just makes our search look for any one of these terms combined with any one of these terms. So we could find articles that mention Boar and Rebellion and we'll find articles that mention Trans Ball and War. Before we go, there are more advanced options. For example, I could experiment with the search filters. The default is anywhere. Basically, it's looking for these terms in the title of the full text everywhere. If you're getting too many search results, you could try to search for title only. You can also limit your search to a specific type of article. For example, you could look for an editorial, a front page article, or even a letter to the editor. And here are the search results. If we choose an article, you can view it here, email it to yourself, generate a citation, or download the article as a PDF. And that's all for this tutorial. Hopefully, you learned the basics of searching on a historical newspaper database. And if you have any questions, just ask a librarian.