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JOUR 757/459i: History of Investigative Journalism

Use this guide to find sources for your final projects and other assignments

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This guide will help you find different kinds of sources for your final projects and other assignments -- and in your work and research beyond UMD!

Scanned front page section from a black and white, illustrated newspaper from 1858. Wood engraving illustration of a white man in a hat carrying a knife; the caption says, Portrait of Mr. Lewis J. Kirk, as he appeared while dissecting a cow from the Sixteenth Street stables, May 23, 1858.

Section from the front page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from May 22, 1858, featuring Leslie's exposé of New York's swill milk scandal. Image from the Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.