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SIRS includes two modules: Issues Researcher and Government Reporter. Issues Researcher covers the leading issues most studied and debated by students, and features newspaper and magazine articles. Government Reporter includes country reports, publications from federal agencies, historic documents, national archives documents and agency press releases.

Find news articles covering topics in government, politics, social issues, culture, literature discoveries, inventions and more from hundreds of primary sources . Search using either the timeline or topic search to easily find news and eyewitness accounts and pro/con articles of events, issues and daily life in the colonies or during the Revolutionary War, westward expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, industrialization, the Progressive Era, World War I, the Great Depression, Vietnam War, World War II, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, globalization and other eras.