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Public opinion polls for historians

Public Opinion Quarterly

Public Opinion Quarterly

This is the major journal in the field. In print in RECAP; current decade in Stokes & Firestone; 1937-2005 in JSTOR, plus more current online issues in various other databases.

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Public opinion polls

Search also subdivision Public opinion

  • under names of individual persons, corporate bodies, and topical subjects; also subdivision Appreciation
  • under names of individual literary or artistic persons; also subdivision Attitudes
  • under classes of persons and ethnic groups; also subdivisions Public opinion
  • or Foreign public opinion
  • under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945--Public opinion; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Foreign public opinion; and subdivision Foreign public opinion
  • under names of countries, etc.