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Newspapers & Magazines
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-5 (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Full-text from more than 6,500 historical periodicals and magazines, provided by the American Antiquarian Society.
- What dates are covered? 1693-1877
- African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998 (America's Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? More than 350 U.S. newspapers covering a century and a half of the African American experience. Includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states and features many rare 19th-century titles.
What dates are covered? 1827-1998
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Page image and full-text index to The Boston Globe. Additional year of content added annually.
- What dates are covered? 1872 - 1990.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Page image and full-text index to The New York Times. Additional year of content added annually.
- What dates are covered? 1851 - 2018.
- Providence Journal (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Articles from the Providence Journal. Searchable page images available for 1829-1982 and 2017 to present. Full text available from 1981 to present.
- What dates are covered? 1829 - Present.
- Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Access almost 100 years of cultural history with citations to over 3 million articles that appeared in 373 leading U.S. magazines.
- What dates are covered? 1890 - Present.
Original Sources & Archives
- American West (AM) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago.
- What dates are covered? 1720-1960
- African Online Digital Library (Michigan State University)
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"The African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa. MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, is partnering with universities and cultural heritage organizations in Africa to build this resource." - The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress)
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A digital exhibit from the Library of Congress, this site includes a variety of primary source material, organized chronologically and thematically. - Africans in America (PBS)
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Created to accompany the PBS series, this website includes primary source documentation of the African experience in the United States. - Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
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The DPLA serves as a portal to the openly available, digitized contents of America’s libraries, archives, and museums. It indexes materials in all formats. - Digital Schomburg (New York Public Library)
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Collection of primary source material from the Schomburg Center at the New York Public Library. - FBI: The Vault - Black Extremist • COINTELPRO (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
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The FBI's archive of original documents related to the COINTELPRO investigation. - Who Speaks for the Negro? (Vanderbilt University)
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Tapes and transcripts of the interviews that went into Robert Penn Warren's book "Who Speaks for the Negro?" -- an early group of interviews with central Civil Rights figures.
