Build time-bounded searches across multiple historical and academic resources using Wikipedia birth and death dates. This tool helps you find contemporary sources about your subject—what newspapers were saying about Louisa May Alcott in 1854, not just modern scholarship about her.
The Challenge: As the volume of online scholarship increases daily, it becomes harder to find information contemporary to your subject. This tool creates searches limited to your person's lifespan.
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Click the button below to automatically generate time-bounded searches across historical databases. The tool will look up birth and death dates from Wikipedia and create searches covering your subject's entire lifespan.