A common UVU research assignment is to locate a newspaper article from the day you were born, or from the days surrounding a major event. This gives you the opportunity to explore the conversations happening around that date, as well as a chance to practice using library resources that may be useful for other research assignments.
Depending on the year you need, these assignments can be tricky to almost impossible to accomplish without going through a library database or paying for your own subscription. This is because many newspaper websites don't allow you to read more than a few articles for free each month, and because these websites often don't include archives with older articles. When they do include archives, they often only allow searching with keywords and not for specific dates.
The Fulton Library's Global Newsstream database works well for this type of assignment, because it includes numerous newspapers from around the world (including The New York Times) going back to 1977. You can also easily search for articles published on a specific date! Follow the steps on this page to learn how to use Global Newsstream to locate news articles from a specific date.
Contact a librarian using the Library Help features in this guide if you experience any difficulties locating your article.