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Research Sources and advice...

Doing academic research?  I'm going to be adding good sources and pieces of advice to this page that will help!
(First piece of advice:  NEVER ever ever use Wiki for a source.  Ever.  Seriously.)

CIA Country Fact book
​www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ar.html

Google News Archive:
https://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search?as_drrb=a
The Google News Archive searches historical newspapers, most of which cannot be found elsewhere in Google.

The Times of London:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/
The Times of London organizes its archives through topics such as War & Revolution, Politics & Civil Rights, and Exploration.

Rag Linen:
http://raglinen.com/collections/
Rag Linen is an online museum and educational archive of rare and historic printed newspapers.

The Library of Congress' Chronicling America:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
The Library of Congress’ Chronicling America displays images of late 19th and early 20th century American newspaper pages.

The Wisconsin Historical Society:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/
The Wisconsin Historical Society has scanned every issue of Freedom’s Journal, the first newspaper to be owned and operated by African-Americans.

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Time Magazine:
http://content.time.com/time/magazine
Time magazine provides users with access to its impressive article archive dating back to 1923

The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
The New York Times offers free articles dating from 1851-1922 and 1987-present.

The Sports Illustrated Vault:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/
The Sports Illustrated Vault offers all the magazine’s articles since its 1954 debut.

Cornell University and University of Michigan:
http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Cornell University and University of Michigan libraries’ Making of America projects are collections of journals and newspapers from the antebellum, wartime and reconstruction periods.