Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982

Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (Wilson) 1890 - 1982.     Save to del.icio.us.

Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides a quick way to search 375 of the most popular general-interest magazines in the United States for a nearly 100-year period.  These magazines chronicle the most important events in U.S. culture and history during the 20th century.

Note: this database does not provide the full article. It provides the citation (overview) of the article.  After a search, click on "Find It @ UMKC" for choices in finding the full article.

Other Important Features:

• Search for "primary" articles which chronicle an event exactly when it happened.
• Find articles a number of ways:  keyword, subject heading, author, journal title, publication, etc.
• Original historic subject headings as well as contemporary headings are displayed on each search result, revealing a valuable insight as to how our culture "framed" the issues of the day.
• Covers a wide variety of subjects: 
  • Antiques
  • Arts
  • Business
  • Computers
  • Crafts
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Fiction
  • Film & Television
  • Food, Recipes & Cooking
  • Gardening
  • Health & Medicine
  • History
  • Home Improvement
  • Literature
  • News & Current Events
  • Photography
  • Popular & Classical Music
  • Politics
  • Popular Culture
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Sports & Fitness
  • Transportation
  • Travel
  • and more!

[Source: Reader's Guide Retrospective product description page, accessed January 18, 2008.]

The print version, Readers' Guide To Periodical Literature, is available in Miller Nichols Library Reference at UMK MNL Ready Reference AI3.R48.

Also see the database, OmniFile V Full Text, for Readers' Guide Full Text from 1994-present.