In doing email reference today several students have either chatted or emailed about their communications assignment to find articles about Katharine Graham and her son Donald E. Graham, who have been publishers of the Washington Post. (Mrs. Graham, now deceased, took over after her husband’s suicide, and her son succeeded her, after holding several positions at the Washington Post. Mrs. Graham was the publisher of the Washington Post during the Watergate crisis in the early 1970s. John Mitchell, the attorney general at the time, made a very famous quote about Mrs. Graham.) One student was misspelling Mrs. Graham’s first name, which might have been problematic in searching the databases.
I was somewhat surprised when I tried Academic Search Complete and the Communications database and learned if you do a people search or subject search for Katharine Graham no results are available. A search in all text is successful. There are a number of articles about her after she died. Another database that can be searched is People on Lexis-Nexis, which has a number of results for either Katharine Graham or Donald E. Graham. Her son is also referred to as Don Graham sometimes. Two books, one written by Katharine Graham, are available in our collection.