Articles written in the present day about past events are usually considered to be secondary sources. Use these databases to find journal articles about the topics of your annotated bibliography paper.
Covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present with full-text coverage of hundreds of journals and books, and selective indexing for journals 1955-present.
Independent Voices chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of an independent alternative press. Consolidated for the first time, Independent Voices provides over 1,000 titles from the special collections of dozens of libraries. Independent Voices provides easy access to the powerful voices of feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, gays, lesbians and more. Covers 1951-2015.
There are entire online databases full of reference material. Take a look at these:
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The Watergate Complex in Washington, DC, seen here in 2013, that gave its name to a national scandal during the Richard M. Nixon administration.
(Courtesy of: Farragutful, Wikimedia Commons)