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HIST 174: East Asia to 1800

Professor Mark McNicholas

Boolean Operators: AND ~~ OR ~~ NOT

To find relevant results in LionSearch, a database, or Google:

Try using Boolean operators (and, or, not):

AND narrows your search results

  • Confucius AND history

OR expands and broadens your search results

  • Neolithic OR Yangshao

NOT excludes and narrows your search results

  • katakana NOT hiragana

Try using quote marks around phrases (words naturally spoken together and names of people):

  • "Bronze Age"
  • "mysterious learning"
  • "Dong Zhongshu"

Try using site:. to limit your web domain (.edu - .org - .gov. - .mil):

  • Confucius and history site:.edu