Here are some search terms that have proven useful in the past
| Student involvement | College newspapers |
| Advertisements or advertising | Editorials |
| Cartoons | Fashion |
| Middle class taste | Courses or syllabus/syllabi |
| Student movements | Student publications |
| Student life/culture | Undergraduate |
| Freshmen | Women or girls or female |
| Sophomore(s) | African American or black |
| Junior(s) | Minorities |
| Senior(s) |
| Course catalog | Coeducation |
| Discipline | Teacher training or training teachers |
| In loco parentis | Regulations and rules |
| Honor code | Behavior |
| University/ies or college(s) or higher education | University/college/campus culture/life |
| Organizations | Greek life or sororities or fraternities |
| Teams | Regulations or rules |
| Sports or athletics | Dating or socialization |
| Societies or associations or clubs | Literary societies or debate societies |
| Feminism | Student government or student participation in government or SGA |
| Counterculture | Political activity or Protests or Riots or Sit-ins or Marches or Activism or Dissent |
| Alcohol or Drinking or Alcohol Policy | Race or racism or race relations |
| Discrimination | Integration |
| Martin Luther King or MLK | World War I or The Great War |
| Civil Rights movement | World War II |
| Brown vs Board of Education | Great Depression |
| Loving vs Virginia | FDR years or fireside chats or New Deal |
| Vietnam War | Kent State |
| Cold War | Farm Security Administration or FSA |
| Pearl Harbor or "date which will live in infamy" | John F Kennedy or JFK or Kennedy years |
| Korean War | Suffragettes or or suffrage or votes for women |
| United States or USA or America(n) | Prohibition |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | Affirmative action |