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FYW: Winning the White House: Background Information

How to approach background research

Your initial background research is when you're just getting topic ideas and overviews, and collecting keywords.

This is a great time to use the comfortable, casual tools and resources that aren't going to end up in your final references list, like Wikipedia, Google, or Perplexity.

The library also has reference sources like encyclopedias and databases that offer broad overviews of topics--check out the recommendations on this page.

Digital Reference Sources


Print Reference Sources