Additional suggestions on using our Site Search Engine:

Check spelling  The search engine will attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms, but it is always best to try to spell the search terms correctly.

Use appropriate capitalization   Capitalize proper nouns. Lowercase words will match any case. For example, typing grant will return all documents containing the words grant, Grant and GRANT.  However, typing Grant should return pages about U.S. Grant.

Use quotation marks  Use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other, for example, "West Point cadet". Otherwise, the search results will include the word West, Point, and the word cadet, but not necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in any order, within the document.

You may use multiple words   The search results will return more refined results from several words than from a single word. For example, typing Spanish Civil War will yield more relevant results than typing only Civil War. (Keep in mind, without using quotation marks relevant results are returned even if they don't contain all query terms.)

Use plus (+) or minus (-)   Use a plus sign when your search term or phrase must appear in the search results. Use a minus sign to indicate undesirable term(s). The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results.  +"Civil War" -Spanish -Spain (Civil War not Spanish or Spain)

Boolean searches are a variation on the above:
Hitler and Stalin --> +Hitler +Stalin
Hitler or Stalin --> Hitler Stalin
Hitler not Stalin --> +Hitler -Stalin
Stalin not Hitler --> +Stalin -Hitler

   Use wildcards    Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character. For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh. Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word.
Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (-) modifiers, quotes for phrases, as well as the field search specifiers. +wh* -se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends with ch. "wh* are" will find the phrases where are, what are, why are, etc.

Once within a searched Page, pressing the Ctrl-F key combination will allow you to find words within the page.