Stafford Library: United States Presidential Elections Research: Find Articles

Selected Article Searches

You can start with searching for the key words on your topic such as presidential campaign Ronald Reagan. Then limit to full text, peer reviewed articles. Then look at the subjects in some of the articles for limiting or expanding your search.

You can search for a specific president by using the subject search:

Presidents - United States - Election - (and the election date)
Limit to full text, and peer reviewed by checking the boxes under Limit To.
Review your results. You can email or print the articles.

Newspapers

Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national, international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
ProQuest Global Newsstream
Global Newsstream provides access to news resources from around the globe. This news collection delivers access to current, full-text news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites.

Life Magazine 1936-1972
We also have this in print in the hallway next to the library classroom from July 1939 to June 1952.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 from the Library of Congress
New York Times from 1980
LexisNexis has articles from the NYT from 1980.

Political Science Articles

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with full-text periodicals, including peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for journals and publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
JSTOR
History, sociology, business, economics, ecology, education, language & literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies and finance. The library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and VIII collections. Entirely full text.
Military & Government Collection
Military & Government Collection offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
Project MUSE
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Full-text journals, informative abstracts, books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources, the database also includes searchable cited references for core coverage journals.

Journal & Newspaper Locator

Search for a journal, newspaper, or magazine title to see if the publication is available at the library in print and/or through one of our online databases. You can use this locator if you have a citation and want to find the article in full text.

Journal & Newspaper Locator

Request an Article

Use this form to request the full text of a particular article. This service is only available to current Columbia College students, faculty and staff.

Article Request Form