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Celebrity Pairs

Listed below are the celebrity pairs from Dr. Horna. Please figure out date ranges you would like to research for each celebrity. When you begin to search for each celebrity in the databases you will be able to search within specific date ranges to filter your results.

Beloved/Notorious Pairs

Louis Armstrong/Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald/Billie Holiday
Pete Seeger/Bob Dylan
Jimmy Stewart/Marlon Brando
Bob Hope/Jerry Lewis
Doris Day/Marilyn Monroe
Shirley Temple/Judy Garland
Johnny Carson/David Letterman
Mr. Rogers/Pee Wee Herman
Babe Ruth/Joe DiMaggio
Joe Louis/Muhammad Ali
Robert Frost/Robert Lowell
Dwight Eisenhower/Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan/Bill Clinton

What are Primary Sources?

Biographical & Background Information

You can use the following databases to find biographical and contextual information about your celebrities. These are not historical sources but sources that will help you understand basic facts, key events, and important people in the lives and times of your celebrities.

Popular Culture Universe This link opens in a new window More than 300 full-text volumes of material related to popular culture both current and historical.
Biography In Context This link opens in a new window Contains more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Credo Reference is an online reference library providing access to over 615 reference books. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, in addition to a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.  Guide to Credo Reference

Search for Historical News on Celebrities Here

Historical Articles from New York Times Online

Create Your New York Times Account

New York Times Online This link opens in a new window
Next, sign in here.
The New York Times online requires you to create an account before you can access the site. You must use your FDU email address when registering. Access is good for one year. After which you will need to re-register. To re-register follow these instructions.
New York Times Time Machine (1851-2001) This link opens in a new window
Search the New York Times historical archives back to 1851 to 2001. For later editions, use New York Times Online.

You must create an account before you can access the site. See link above.
Access to the NYT Time Machine requires you to create an account before you can access the site. You must use your FDU email address when registering. Access is good for one year. After which you will need to re-register. To re-register follow these instructions. This is the same account as the New York Times Online account so if you already have one there is no need to create a separate account.

Historical Newspapers (Open Access Databases)

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Sponsored jointly by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site provides digital access to select American newspapers from 1880 to 1910. Also includes a directory of newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present.
Google News Archive
Thousands of American newspapers from the 1700s through 2000s. Searches cannot be limited by date.
New York State Historical Newspapers
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. Created and administered by the Northern New York Library Network in partnership with the Empire State Library Network.

More recent newspaper databases

Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Access the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present, one of the world's leading daily financial newspapers.
Useful for:

Newspaper articles on various topics including finance, the stock market, the economy, management, politics, U.S. news and world news.
Market data including stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, mutual funds, and ETFs

Includes:

Newspapers
US Majors Dailies This link opens in a new window
ProQuest US Major Dailies includes full-text coverage of several major US newspapers: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times (with New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine), USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal (with WSJ : the Magazine from the Wall Street Journal), and The Washington Post. Although starting dates differ, coverage for each newspaper extends to the present.
Black Life in America (News Sources) This link opens in a new window
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media from 1976 to the present.

WRIT 1003 (Horna): Comp II Research and Argument: Home

Welcome

This is the course guide designed to help Dr. Horna's WRIT 1003 students find historical newspaper articles and other contextual background information about celebrities. Please don't hesitate to reach out to your librarian(s) if you have any questions!

Your Librarian: Brooke Duffy b.duffy@fdu.edu

Today we will:

search library databases and other search engines in order to access both historical newspaper articles and background information about your celebrity pairs.

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