Once you've checked free resources like Google and Wikipedia, try out these reference databases to continue enriching your background knowledge.
Please feel free to get in touch with a librarian at any stage of your research process. Stop by the library (located on the third floor of the B side of the Fenway building), or get in touch directly with:
Ashley Peterson
Darin Murphy
Circulation Desk (evening and weekend contact)
Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, Killing Time, 1991
from the Franklin Furnace Archives collection in Artstor