Find and Access Digital Material

Find Digital Material

1. Use the search bar at the center of the front page.
2. Every document on the Digital Archive is full-text searchable, so you can search for individuals, meeting dates or places, etc., using quotation marks to search specifically.
3. Search Example: To find proceedings from the St. Louis Caucus in May 1919, select National Meetings Digests from the drop down and search for St. Louis Caucus

Narrow Search Results

Use search facets to limit search results.

Publication Date

• Allows for limiting results by century, decade, and then year.

Format limits to a specific type of item such as Magazine, Newsletter, Report, Resolution.

Series allows to limit results to key publications such as:

• American Legion Magazine
• American Legion Dispatch
• The National Legionnaire
• National Convention Programs

Topic reflects the key program areas such as:

• Americanism
• Children & Youth
• Internal Affairs
• Media & Communications
• Membership & Post Activities
• Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation 

Sort Search Results

The default order for search results is by the most relevant items first. Change the display of results with the following sort options:

1. Title Ascending Order (A to Z)
2. Title Descending Order (Z to A)
3. Date Ascending Order (Smallest to Largest)
4. Date Descending Order (Largest to Smallest)

Access Digital Material

1. Once you’ve located an item you wish to view, click on the title or on the thumbnail image.

   
2. Item page includes an item viewer and a short description of the item. Some of the item viewer features include search text, change layout, zoom, and view in full screen.