Academic Search Complete will find newer material on topics. When you need to find older articles to explore your topic or how an issue was viewed during a certain time period, you'll want to try the Reader's Guide Retrospective database.
When you have a project that requires you to explore how an issue was viewed during a specific time period or that requires you find older articles, this is one of the few times the Academic Search Complete database is not a great place to start. Instead, try the database Reader's Guide Retrospective.
Try searching Academic Search Ultimate or another EBSCOHost database and resort your results so that the OLDEST items appear first in your results list.