Selective International Archival Resources
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American Archival Collections
Public Records and Government Documents
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Databases that provide full-text access to historical newspapers published in the United States.
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers -- the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media, and help chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press." The collection totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles from England, the United States, Barbados, Jamaica, India, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Scotland.
Accessible Archives -- USC currently holds two Accessible Archives collections:
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 -- database that provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers, from more than 35 states, chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.
American Indian Newspapers -- aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.
American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries -- this collection, which spans the Nineteenth century through the dawn of the twentieth century, contains full text and full-color scans of journal content that can be cross-searched with American Periodicals Series Online, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and other leading historical collections from ProQuest. The collection contains special interest and general magazines, labor and trade publications, scientific and literary journals, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically significant titles.
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 -- includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Godey's Lady's Book to Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. Choose Interdisciplinary--APS Online from the Databases list.
America's Historical Newspapers [Archive of Americana] -- includes the following newspaper collections: Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876; African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980; and Selected Historical Newspapers.
Chronicling America: America's Historic Newspapers -- this Library of Congress site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876 -- offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 710 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection provides unprecedented access to the nation’s early periods, enabling researchers to explore essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.
Ethnic Newswatch: A History -- provides the historical foreground to the ethnic, minority, and native press content in the Ethnic NewsWatch database, with over 300,000 full-text articles dating from 1959-1989.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 -- this database covers Hispanic American newspapers from 22 U.S. states published in the period 1808-1980, searchable by dates and "eras", article types, languages, place of publication, and newspaper title.
Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press -- a searchable collection of historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
Historical Newspapers Online -- access to full-text newspaper articles and to indexes including Palmer's Index to the Times, covering from 1790 to 1905 in The Times; the Official Index to the Times which takes the coverage forward from 1906 to 1980; the Historical Index to the New York Times, covering the New York Times from 1851 to September 1922; and Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870, providing access to the full articles referenced in Palmer's index to the Times.
NewspaperARCHIVE.com – provides full-text access to over 6,000 American, British, Canadian and several other international newspapers with coverage between 1607-present. Note that over 200 of these newspapers are from California, including the Oakland Tribune, the Bakersfield Californian and the Berkeley Daily Gazette.
Paper of Record -- provides access to many Canadian and Mexican newspapers, along with those from the United States.
Periodicals Archive Online -- an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, providing researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas.
ProQuest Civil War Era -- contains the full run of eight newspapers from 1840-1865 and nearly 2000 pamphlets from the Slavery and Anti-Slavery Pamphlets and Civil War Pamphlets collections.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers -- includes the Atlanta Constitution (1868-1939), Atlanta Daily-World (1931-2003), Baltimore Sun (1837-1985), Boston Globe (1872-1924), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), Christian Science Monitor (1908-1994), Guardian & Observer (1791-2003), Hartford Courant (1764-1984), Los Angeles Sentinel (1946-2005), Los Angeles Times (1881-1987), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), New York Times (1851-2000), New York Tribune (1841-1922), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Wall Street Journal (1889-1988), Washington Post (1877-1990), and many more. Choose historical newspapers from the Databases menu, or click the Multiple Databases to search several historical newspapers at once.
Readers' Guide Retrospective -- this database provides citations and links to articles, reviews, and more from nearly 400 popular magazines, dating back to the early 20th century.
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History Databases
Important Databases for Doing Historical Research in Political Science
Using Primary Source and Archival Materials
AM Research Methods – this platform provides practical advice on how to work with primary source materials and integrate them into a research study. Contents include approximately 200 hundred essays, instructive videos, practical "How to" guides, and case studies created by scholars and archivists. The videos and "How to" guides introduce the key concepts of conducting research and analyzing primary source materials. Case studies describe examples of the ways in which historians have used diaries, government records, and posters, or popular culture, gender, and science materials in their research. A discrete collection of cases focusing on historical datasets is also included.
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