Open Educational Resource that teaches undergraduate students how to search the library catalog for books, the America: History and Life database for searching for scholarly journals and the Chronicling America free website in order to find newspaper articles from an earlier time period. This instructional material is meant for students in American History courses looking for source material for a research paper, but might also be adapted for other areas of research.
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