ERH 230: Artistic Responses to Social & Political Issues, Lt. Col. Hodde

Articles provide information on very specific, narrow topics. The Library purchases article databases so you may access articles for your topic – for free. Researchers use them when they need:

• Magazines and Newspapers: Brief coverage of contemporary events written to all levels of readers.
• Peer Reviewed/Scholarly Journals: Reports of research or scholarship on specific topics written by scholars to other scholars
  • What does peer-review mean?
    • The review of commercial, professional, or academic efficiency, competence, etc., by others in the same occupation -Oxford English Dictionary

Use the playwright's name, the name of the play, and limit the date of publication (of the review to the year before and after the original date of production. Example: John Cheever swimmer, and use the date limiter to limit to 1958 through 1960. This way, you'll get the first production reviews.

For example: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York on March 11, 1959