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Using the Modernist Journals Project

With the Modernist Journals Project you can flip through the pages of dozens of little magazines from the 1910s and 1920s.

• Read the first publication of major poems and stories in their original context.

• See articles with their original illustrations.

• View articles as well as ads.



Reading little magazines from the 1910s-20s.

• When you are conducting research, however, browsing magazines might not be enough.

• Searching the Modernist Journals Project is a multi-step process, but well worth the effort.


Steps for Searching: Modernist Journals Project


Steps for Searching: Search PageClick “Search” the MJP database at the bottom of the home page.


Steps for Searching: Search PageSearch the full text of articles for the words you want.



TIPS: Searching FULL TEXT means that you need to use the terms that were in use at the time, for example, “womanhood” or “manhood” instead of “gender.”



TIPS: Remember some names of countries, wars, and international organizations were different in the 1910s and 1920s than they are today.

• Ex. The European war, not World War I; • Rhodesia, not Zimbabwe; • The League of Nations, not the United Nations.



TIPS: Remember names of races and ethnicities were different in the 1910s and 1920s from our terms today. Terms that today are deeply offensive were often the scientifically preferred terms a hundred years ago.

• Ex. “Negro” for African American • “Semitic” for Jewish • Various terms, including “Nordic,” “Teutonic,” “Aryan,” “Anglo-Saxon,” “Alpine,” “Mediterranean,” and “Caucasian,” for white

• “Oriental,” “Mongoloid,” or “Mongolian” for Asian



TIPS: Remember modernism and its little magazines are international projects. Try British, American, and French spellings of search terms.

• Ex. “defense” and “defence”• “bank” and “banque”


Steps for Searching: ResultsSee the number of results, and click “(Next)” to see more.


Steps for Searching: ResultsResults show the title and date of the magazine and sentences that use your search word in an article.


Steps for Searching: ResultsChoose your articles by finding sentences that use your search word in ways that are interesting to you.


Steps for Searching: Find ArticlesWhen you select a source, RIGHT CLICK the title of the magazine in bold and open the magazine in a new window.


Steps for Searching: Find ArticlesOpen a new page for your chosen issue of the magazine. Click “View PDF” to get to the articles.


Steps for Searching: Find ArticlesThe easiest way to find the article you are looking for is to use the FIND function of the PDF to locate your search terms again.


Steps for Searching: Find ArticlesPut your search term in the FIND box and hit Enter.


Steps for Searching: Find ArticlesThe PDF will highlight your search terms and take you to that page.


Steps for Searching: Find ArticlesIf the first hit is not in the sentence you are looking for, click the arrows at the top of the page to go to the next highlighted word.


Steps for Using Articles

•Read the article to see if it will be useful in your paper.•Remember that modernist articles are often sarcastic and state one position only to contradict it as the article goes on.•Read carefully all the way through at least twice.


Steps for Citing ArticlesRecord the author’s name, which might be at the end of the article.


Steps for Citing ArticlesRecord the article title and place it in quotation marks.


Steps for Citing ArticlesRecord the magazine title (in italics), date, and pages of article.


Steps for Citing ArticlesFormat as an article in a magazine in an online database.

Sample MLA citation of anthropology article:

Harrison, Harold B. "The Superman." The New Age 25

Mar. 1915: 573. The Modernist Journals Project.

Web. 23 Mar. 2010.

Note: Rules for magazines, which use date, are different from rules for academic journals, which use volume and issue.

Note: The final date in the citation is the day of your research.



Through the Modernist Journals Project you have access to a wealth of free resources that ten years ago would not have been available to researchers at the most elite universities in the world.

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