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African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998 (America's Historical Newspapers)More than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling 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.
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American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-5 (EBSCOhost)From the extensive collection at the American Antiquarian Society, this full-text digital collection contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles dating from 1693 to 1877.
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American West (Adam Matthew)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.
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Archive of AmericanaThis family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.
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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)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.
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EuropeanaDigital archive of over two million images, texts, sounds, and videos from libraries, museums, and archives across Europe.
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New York Times Article ArchiveFor current access to the New York Times, use the US Major Dailies database.
Search the complete backfile of The New York Times by keyword, author, or headline. Includes articles, advertisements, and listings through 1995; articles only after 1995. Full content in PDF format (1851-1995) or text-only format (1996-) may be purchased online. (Note that articles are also available on microfilm in many libraries and online in library databases.) 1851-. Updated daily. -
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (EBSCOhost)Access almost 100 years of cultural history with citations to over 3 million articles that appeared in 373 leading U.S. magazines as far back as 1890.
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