US History - WWII: Search Tips

Try out alternate keywords for your topic to see what gets you the best results. For example:

• different spellings -
  "World War II"
  "World War Two"
  "second World War"
• broader or narrower terms for your topic - 
  "Asian Americans"
  "Japanese Americans"
• synonyms - 
  "women"
  "females"

When you put quotation marks around a phrase in a search, it is telling the search engine or database that you only want results with those words together.

"African Americans" = results about African Americans

Just typing in African Americans (with no quotes) will get you:

results containing the term "African"

+

results containing the term "Americans"

Wildcards take the place of one or more characters in a search term. They're handy when there are a lot of variations on a word, but all of them would match your search. For example:

Latin*

will bring up results for

Latinx

Latino

Latina