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UsingAmerica: History & Life
For a historical policy literature search
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American History & Life
• Covers American and Canadian history from pre-historic times to present
• Can be searched by historic periods of interest
• Can help you find historic policy discussed in recent scholarly literature
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How to Access America: History & Life
Use the Mlibrary search box from any library page. Enter the title and click go.
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How to Access America: History & Life
A direct link to America: History & Life will appear under the heading Databases.
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Finding historic policy on immigration in the United States
Tip: Using quotation marks around a phrase will search for instances of that exact phrase. Without quotation marks will likely give you less exact search results.
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Using
America: History & Life
For a historical policy literature search
Narrow the time period you want to search. You have the option to
search only for English language articles.
Try narrowing your search…
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Other options include…
4. Refining your results list using these options.
1. Saving a citation to your folder as you browse.
2. Clicking on the title for more information
3. Clicking the MGetIt icon for full text.
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After clicking the title you have options to
2. Find similar results.
1. Review the subject terms.
3. See how to cite this article, export the citation into RefWorks, email it , and more using these options.
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