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Articles: Newspapers & Current Events

African American Historical Serials

This collection was developed in conjunction with the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) to preserve endangered serials related to African American religious life and culture. The collection includes more than 170 titles related to African American life and culture, 60,000 pages of searchable primary source content, reports and annuals from African American religious organizations and social service agencies, as well as African American periodicals, and coverage of African American religious organizations, churches and institutions.

Format:Full Text
Publication Dates:1829-1922
Vendor:EBSCO
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) collection contains the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. Specialized collections cover advertising, health, women’s issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.

Format:Full Text
Publication Dates:1684-1912
Vendor:EBSCO
EBSCO’s AP News

Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press on a continuous basis. This collection includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, U.S. Politics & Government and 50 State Reports. The index to the full text content in AP News is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO.

Format:Not applicable
Publication Dates:Not applicable
Vendor:Not applicable
EBSCO’s News Harvester

Provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. This collection includes over 5,000 feeds across a range of business and general news topics.

Format:Not applicable
Publication Dates:Not applicable
Vendor:Not applicable
Factiva

World news and business information, including information on US and foreign companies, stock prices, currency data, and financial profiles for companies worldwide. Newswires, newspaper, and magazine articles.

Format:Selected Full-text
Publication Dates:1951 - present
Vendor:ProQuest
Newspaper Source Plus

Major American newspapers, some foreign newspapers, and selected stories from US regional newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.

 

Format:Selected Full-text
Publication Dates:1980s - present
Vendor:EBSCO
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

A full-text searchable, facsimile-image database which provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America. The collection features publications of all kinds, from the political party newspapers at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the mammoth dailies that shaped the nation at the century’s end. Includes major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women’s rights groups, labor groups, the Confederacy, and other groups and interests. Also included are illustrated papers that bring the nineteenth century to life through the drawings of many artists.

Format:Full-text
Publication Dates:1800-1899
Vendor:Gale Cengage
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

This full-text archive consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps. The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.

Format:Full-text
Publication Dates:1490-1896
Vendor:Gale Cengage
The Times Digital Archive

An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to the current year of coverage. The archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest, including business, humanities, political science, philosophy, and numerous other subjects with coverage of all major international historical events.

Format:Full-text
Publication Dates:1785-current
Vendor:Gale Cengage

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