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African American Studies  Tags: american_history african_american  

A guide to resources in African American Studies, includes UIowa and web resources.
Last update: Nov 05th, 2009 URL: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/afamstudies  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Other Newspaper collections

  • Access World News  
    Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers. Includes: New York Times and Chicago Tribune.
  • LexisNexis Academic  
    The news section provides access to full text of newspapers from the U.S., Europe, Africa, North and South America and Australia in English, as well as some in French, German, Italian and Spanish; news wires, TV and radio transcripts are also available.
 

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

 
 

Proquest Historical Newspapers - Black Newspapers

The Proquest Historical Newspapers offer full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Each newspaper collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Users can cross-search titles.

 

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Historical Digital Newspaper Collections

  • 19th Century Historical United States Newspapers  
    Full-text content and images from a range of urban and rural newspapers throughout the U.S., with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture, Western migration and Antebellum-era life.
  • African American Newspapers: The 19th Century  
    Complete texts of major 19th century African American newspapers. Includes first-hand reports of events and issues of the day, as well as biographies, vital statistics, essays, editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
  • Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online  
    The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841 to 1955, then revived from 1960 to 1963. Phase I, which can be found on this site, covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication.
  • The Civil War : A Newspaper Perspective : November 1860-April 1865  
    Full text of articles taken from issues of The New York herald, The Charleston mercury and the Richmond enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Includes news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements, and biographies. Also includes articles describing other than military concer
  • Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876  
    Includes images and full-text content from scores of historical publications. Based mainly on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and concentrating on publication starts pre-1820.
 
 

British Newspapers

  • 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers  
    This database consists of the British Library's collection of the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by Reverend Charles Burney.
  • 19th Century British Library Newspapers  
    This database features British newspapers from the 19th century selected by the British Library's editorial board. Many of the newspapers are available in complete runs, and all are searchable full-text.
  • The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985  
    Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.
 
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