Recommended Resources
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ProQuest Historical NewspapersSelect historical newspapers for national, regional, and local events. Coverage includes the United States, China, Britain, India, and Canada.
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Chronicling AmericaDigitized American newspapers, 1789-1949, from states participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily ReportBreathtakingly extensive open-source intelligence gathering via media around the globe. Translation of non-English-language sources in transcription or summary.
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The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2008"Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2008. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files."
Topical Newspaper Projects
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Ethnic newswatch This link opens in a new windowEthnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States, published 1990- .
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Independent Voices: The Alternative PressPublications by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Understanding Hate in America: White Nationalism and the Press in the 1920sPublications promoting and opposing white nationalism. Local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and sympathizers across the U.S. and key anti-Klan voices.
Newspapers and News, Post-1990
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full text resources on topics including current and general news; business and financial information; newspapers; company directories; government and politics; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax; federal and state laws; legal cases; regulations; and patents.
Television and Radio
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Television news archive, Vanderbilt University This link opens in a new windowTV-NewsSearch locates material in the collection of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. Use this page to perform more complex searches in the headlines and abstracts. In addition to keyword searching, you can make selections according to network, date, reporter, and program type. The database currently includes 835,000 records, including abstracts at the story level of regular evening news programs and catalog records for each special news program. The database will list results of individual story-level records. From each of these records you can press the button to display the listing of the entire program.
Guides to Digitized Historical Newspaper Projects
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Newspaper Digitization Projects: ICONThe International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) list of open-access and fee-for-service digitization projects.
Guides to Historical Newspapers
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African-American Newspapers and Periodicals by ISBN: 9780674007888Publication Date: 1999-02-25"The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean."
Additional Historical Newspaper Databases
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British Library NewspapersEighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century newspapers from the British Library.