In Ellis Library
The number of study rooms on the 2nd floor of Ellis Library
What is 9?
The city for which we have a database of all its Times newspaper issues from 1785 to 2014
What is London?
This database contains British magazines from the World War I era but not quite the World War II era.
What is British Periodicals?
The name of the browser plugin that will let you know if there's free or MU-funded access to the book/article you're looking at online
What is Lean Library?
Two words that will be found in your results if you search Discover@MU for totalitarian*
What are (any of these):
totalitarian
totalitarians
totalitarianism
Starting at this time, you must show your MU ID to enter Ellis Library.
What is midnight / 12:00 AM?
The library database containing full text of multiple large U.S. newspapers
What is Proquest Historical Newspapers?
The database with 20th-century "Topics" like Weimar Cinema and Film in the National-Socialist State
What is filmportal.de?
The name of the website and word processor plugin Mizzou is piloting now, that will help you find current-day articles on the topic you're writing about
What is Keenious?
In Discover@MU, adding this subject-heading word to this search will find primary sources such as government documents:
war AND Italy AND SU ___________What is SOURCES?
According to your course guide, this Special Collection has colorful primary sources from many European countries, but especially France
What is the War Poster Collection?
The "Collection" that appears at the top of search results when you search British Pathe for world war ii
What is "World War II in France?"
The title of the first DVD to appear when you search Discover@MU for SU war films great britain
What is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp?
The name of the app, word processor plugin, and browser plugin that can help organize your sources and cite them accurately in many formats
What is Zotero?
One of the most important search filters, limits, or refinements for historians, in almost any database
What is date (or year)?
The new tool focused on exploring the PRINT book collections on this campus and other UM campuses
What is "Catalog?" ("Libcat" or "Vufind" are also acceptable)
Searching the "History as it Happened" news site for the word freedom, the name of the newspaper with the highest number of search results
What is the Cologne Post?
The number of MU campus libraries that have an external CD/DVD drive you can use to play DVDs
What is 4?
According to our Keenious library guide, the research article database the Keenious AI uses to generate its research recommendations
What is OpenAlex?
The area of law that affects how much full text content you're likely to find online when using free, full-text book searches like HathiTrust
What is copyright?
Most books with a call number starting with D, DA, DC, DD, etc. can be found on this floor.
What is 3 East?
In ARTSTOR's advanced image search, the number of images assigned the Location: Berlin between 1914 and 1918
What is 77? (as of 9/3/2025)
From JSTOR's Advanced Search, the number of articles with totalitarianism in the title, published between 1939 and 1945 and classified as "items I can access"
What is 12?
The area in which generative AI is strongest and the one in which it is weakest, according to your course guide
What are language/rhetoric and facts/sources?
The thing that makes a subject search different from a keyword search