Research Guides: Archives and Primary Sources: Newspapers and Periodicals

Historical Newspapers and Periodicals

African American Communities
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.
Black Life in America
A collection of news sources from the early 1700s to the present. Articles are organized by topic to reflect significant people, places, and events in African American history. A great choice for primary source research!

Baltimore Afro-American Historical
Archive of the Afro-American and Afro-American Ledger newspapers from 1893 to 1988.
Baltimore Sun Historic
Full text of articles appearing in the Baltimore Sun from 1837 to 1999.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
A comprehensive collection of periodicals detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century. Contents cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
American Periodical Series
Full text of over 1,100 historically significant periodicals that began publishing between 1740 and 1900,
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Harp Week
The electronic version of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Features full-text and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. from the 19th century. Strong coverage of the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life..
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
An index of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890 through 1982, Fulltext links on Ebscohost.
New York Review of Books
The premier magazine for discussion of literature, culture and current affairs. Includes all issues from 1963 to the most current.

Periodicals Archive Online
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Complements the titles found in JSTOR.
Persée Portal
Over 300 collections of journals, conference proceedings, series and books, with full text (mostly in French) of prestigious journals in the humanities,social sciences, earth and environmental sciences.
Times Digital Archive 1785-2014 Archive
The Times (London) is one of the most preeminent global newspapers of the 18th century through the early 21st century, covering international events, people, places, politics, business news, opinion and debate, entertainment, and advertising.
ViVa Women's History
Viva is a current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals
GenderWatch
Full text data base dealing with women and gender, 1970-
Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile)
Scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. Useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
European Views of the Americas, 1492-1750
Index of printed works about the Americas authored in Europe pre-1750.