Communication Studies— Historical Newspapers & Magazines Online
Historical Newspapers & News Archives
19th
Century U.S. Newspapers Digital Archive See
state by state coverage under the "Title List."- African
American Newspapers and Periodicals A description
of 4,000-6,000 titles and their locations. This
web site lists microfilmed African American newspapers
and periodicals available for Interlibrary borrowing.
- AP
Images About 800 photos per day feed into this
photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's
spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international
photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day
are saved for all time, while others are archived
for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics,
charts, and timelines.
- Atlanta
Constitution Coverage from 1868 to 1929.
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British
Newspaper Index Contains indexes of The Times,
The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement,
Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Educational
Supplement, the Financial Times, and the Independent.
- BUND: British Universities Newsreel Database
- Chicago Daily News Over 50,000 images taken by the newspaper's reporters between 1902-1933.
- Chicago
Defender Available as part of the Black Studies
Center. Currently available: full text of issues
from 1935-1975.
- Chicago
Tribune (Historical) Searchable full-image
articles and complete content from 1849 through
the 1980's.
- Chronicling America Library of Congress and NEH program to enhance access to historic newspapers. "... search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Contains information on how to locate newpapers, of all states, published from 1690 to the present. See "Holdings" after searching "Find."
- Early
American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) Cover-to-cover “reproductions
of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more
than one million pages as full text-searchable
facsimile images.”
- Los
Angeles Times (Historical) Use
this link to see searchable, full-image articles
from the 19th century (1881) through the 21st century
(up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For
more recent articles, see Los
Angeles Times (Today and Recent Years).
- New
York Times (Historical) Use
this link to see searchable, full-image articles
from the 19th century (1851) through the 21st century
(up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For
more recent articles, see New
York Times (Today and Recent Years).
- Palmer's
Index to The Times 1790-1905 Citations to articles
in the The Times (London), 1790-1905.
- Television
News Archive (Vanderbilt University) Includes
more than 30,000 individual network evening news
broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast
networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than
9,000 hours of special news-related programming
including ABC's Nightline since 1989. See "Important
Note" on front page of website (NU affiliates
have free access).
- Times
of London Digital Archive Searchable full-image
articles and complete content of the Times of
London from 1785 to 1985.
- Wall
Street Journal (Historical) Use
this link to see searchable, full-image articles
from the 19th century (1889) through about the
21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling
end-date). For more recent articles, see Wall
Street Journal (Today and Recent Years).
- Washington
Post (Historical) Use this link to see searchable,
full-image articles from the 19th century (1877)
through the 21st century (up to a few years ago;
a rolling end-date). For more recent articles,
see Washington
Post (Today and Recent Years).
Historical
Magazine Collections Online
- 19th
Century Masterfile A large range of 19th
century materials, including Poole's Index
to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) as well
as patent and government indexes.
- APS
Online: American Periodical Series I, II & III Digitized
images of articles from over 1100 American
periodicals published between 1741 and
1900.
- Eighteenth
Century Journals II A rich collection
of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals.
- HarpWeek
(1857-1877) Full access to publications
of Harper's Weekly during the Civil War and
Reconstruction eras.
- International
Index to Black Periodicals Full Text Citations
from over 150 scholarly and popular journals
including 40 with full text articles. See
also, the Black
Studies Center.
- JSTOR Provides
electronic access to back issues of core scholarly
journals.
- Making of America Images and full-text of 19th century American periodicals.
- New
York Review of Books Searchable archive
of articles and reviews from 1963 to present.
- Periodicals
Archive Online (PCI Fulltext) Major online
periodical archive to the full text of a
growing number of digitized periodicals that
have been indexed in its sister database,
Periodicals Index Online.
- Periodicals
Index Online (PCI Fulltext) Database
of millions of article citations published
in the humanities and social sciences, across
more than 300 years plus a growing full image
archive of journals dating from 1770 to 1995.
International in scope. Includes English,
French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other
Western language works.
For further information, contact:
Stacey Devine
Assistant Head, Acquisitions and Rapid Cataloging
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-7584
stacey-devine@northwestern.edu
Catherine Grove
Head of Acquisitions and Rapid Cataloging
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-4426
c-grove@northwestern.edu
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