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HIST 1301 TR Blank: Native Americans in the Fort Worth Area: Find Articles

Native Americans in the Fort Worth area

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Topic:  Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War Spy

Example search:

  • "Nathan Hale" AND spy
  • Nathan Hale AND American Revolution
  • American Revolutionary War Spies

Example results in MLA format for "Works Cited" Page

  • NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: "Nathan Hale Blundered into a Trap, Papers show." New York Times (1923-Current file): 21 Sept. 2003. ProQuest. Web. 26 Jan. 2015. 
  • MAGAZINE ARTICLE:   Gilmore, Jodie. "Washington's Spies." The New American Mar 07 2005: 35-39. ProQuest. Web. 26 Jan. 2015.
  • JOURNAL ARTICLE:   Baker, Mary Beth. "Nathan Hale: The Documents." Connecticut History 45.1 (2006): 134-140. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 26 Jan. 2015.

Topic: Andrew Jackson's Indian Wars

Database: ProQuest

Example searches:

  • "Andrew Jackson" AND "Native Americans"
  • "Native Americans" AND "Indian Removal Act"

Example results in MLA format for "Works Cited" Page

  • JOURNAL ARTICLE: Hershberger, Mary. "Mobilizing Women, Anticipating Abolition: The Struggle Against Indian Removal in the 1830s." The Journal of American History 86.1 (1999): 15-40. ProQuest. Web. 11 Jan. 2015.
  • JOURNAL ARTICLE:  Remini, Robert V. "Andrew Jackson Verses the Cherokee Nation." American History 2001: 48-56. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 8 Mar. 2013 .
  • JOURNAL ARTICLE:  John, D. W. Guice. "Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters." The Journal of Southern History 68.3 (2002): 690-1. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 8 Mar. 2013.

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More Help -- Databases

Magazine and journal articles are found using an online tool called a database. Search the databases to find articles from both primary and secondary sources.  

Improve your search by thinking of various keywords that relate to the subject and combine them in an advanced search.

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  • "American Revolutionary War"
  • segregation OR "separate but equal"
  • Andrew Jackson AND "Indian Removal Act"