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Online, easily-searchable, first-hand accounts, and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images.
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These topics were originally published in print in The New York Times Index, between 1851 and 1993. The topics covered are historical in nature, and the terminology may vary from year to year. You can use these topics to find articles from The New York Times.
By default, the search software will look for documents with all the terms entered.
Use "quotation marks" to search for exact phrases.
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