Browsing presents a list of the journal titles available in Making of America. You can look at issues of those journals, organized by date. Using this browse feature is a bit like the process of leafing through paper journals. On common words this may find a very large number of articles. You may then wish to modify your search by doing an advanced search.
Bibliographic searches are useful for quickly locating items with a known title or author.
Boolean searches allow you to combine up to four search terms and look for them in the same page or work. Frequency searches allow you to specify the number of times you wou would like a search term to appear in a work. This is good for helping to find items with a strong concentration on your subject. Proximity searches look for the co-occurrence of search terms . Index searches allow you to look through alphabetical linked lists of authors' names, titles, or subject headings.