Armacost Library: POLI 463: Equal Protection: Books and News

Books at the Library

Books are valuable secondary sources that can discuss a case and its historical impact, often in a broader context than law reviews.

You can search the library catalog by case name, i.e. Brown v Board of Education. High profile cases are likely to have official subject terms which are listed in the Details portion of an item's record. For example, see Brown v Board of Education in the Subject list:

A term from the Subject list can be clicked to run a new search for that term.

Reading Room in the Library, 1935-1950

Law in the News

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
(Formerly known as LexisNexis Academic) Provides full-text access to national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language news services; company, industry, and financial information; and legal sources including the Shepard's Citations service for all federal and state court cases from 1789.

For mainstream news: News (top menu) > Major Newspapers (By Type menu)
For legal news: Legal (top menu) > Legal News (Content Type menu)
Sort by Date (oldest-newest) to see coverage in chronological order

Individual newspapers

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
American newspapers from 1756-1963. From the Library of Congress
Free New York Times access
NYT subscription for University of Redlands students, staff, and faculty. Click the "view full text" link for directions to activate your account.
Free Los Angeles Times access
LAT subscription for University of Redlands students, staff, and faculty. Click the "single journals" link for directions to activate your account.

In the library catalog

Newspaper and magazine articles may also be found in the library catalog. Search by case name and filter by Resource Type to magazine and newspaper articles:

Note: the Articles category limits results to articles from scholarly journals.