1. To find an Oped on a labor dispute involving teachers before 1970 I first visited Wikipedia to clarify what an Oped was. After that I visited Proquest’s historical newspaper section. I searched the words labor dispute education and limited my results by document type to Letter to the Editor. The following is the article I found.

http://search.proquest.com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/148000790/1391CE241793EF722FD/6?accountid=14541

2. The first documented use of solar power that I found was also found on Proquest. I started off on Wikipedia just to look for key dates and names. Once at Proquest I looked for “solar power” and searched through the articles by date. The first 4 articles were of no relevance so I settled on this article.

http://search.proquest.com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/144876686/1391CE6EEC93987AE8B/1?accountid=14541

3. For the California State Ballot initiatives and voting data I found that googling California Ballot Initiatives Database gave me the best results. This paired with ballotpedia.org seems to give me the most accurate results for ballt initiatives and how the votes were recorded. These are the links for both sites.

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/1900_ballot_measures

http://library.uchastings.edu/library/guides/california-research/ca-ballot-pamphlets.html