Focus Questions: Is your topic an admirable American representative? To what extent is your topic an American icon?
First, do a regular Google search for your topic. Add keywords like ‘icon’ or ‘iconic’.
Then, click on the NEWS service tab, click on TOOLS, then change RECENT to ARCHIVES. This will give you articles from 50,000 News outlets around the world back to 2003.
Tip # 3 If you DO do regular Google searches, go to SETTINGS and ADVANCED SEARCH and choose for your search terms to be “All in Title”
Fact: There are 130 trillion web pages searchable on Google, and 2 million articles published each day on the web! But, Google indexes only 16 percent of the surface Web and misses ALL of the Deep Web. Source: www.popsci.com/dark-web-revealed
Academic OneFile has over 98 million articles. Designed for colleges, Academic Search Complete is the world’s most complete database with millions of articles in over 8,500 full text journals on every academic subject from Astronomy to Zoology!
Tip #7: Go back in time and search for primary sources in the New York Times “Times Machine”.
(you’ll need to log in first on the upper right of site: username: mkirkpatrick@brunswick.k12.me.us password: dragons15)
Try different Keywords with your Searches: American Icon, Iconic, History, Symbol, Represents, etc.