Research guides: Primary sources: United States: Magazines, news, broadcast media

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American magazine & newspaper sources

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
Over 6,000 newspapers and magazines focusing on American settler interests. GALE's interface features a term frequency visualization option.
Coverage: 1694 - 1922
American Periodicals Series Online
A digital archive of general interest magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and other periodicals.
Coverage: 1740 - 1940

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
An archive of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Coverage: 1802 - 2005
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture
Covers law, criminology, popular culture, phrenology, fiction, and more.
Coverage: 1790 – 1920

Contains books, broadsheets, manuscripts, and periodicals. Also included are court transcripts, prison records, petitions, and police advertisements. Documents are from Europe, North America, India, and the Antipodes.

American Indian Newspapers
A collection of papers from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada.
Coverage: 1828 - 2016
Nation Archive
Full archive of this American current affairs weekly magazine.
Coverage: 1865 - 2nd most recent month

Latest month embargoed.

Chronicling America
Find information about American newspapers.
Coverage: 1690 - present

New York Times [digital archive]
Search for news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
Coverage: 1851 - 3 years ago

Time Magazine digital archive
March 1923- December 2000.
Popular American weekly publication. Articles cover US and international news on a broad spectrum of topics.
Coverage: Mar 1923 - Dec 2000
I.F. Stone's Weekly/Bi-Weekly
Covers U.S. government and politics of the day. Includes its own index. Call number: Per JK1 .I2 Porter, 3rd floor.
Coverage: 1953 - 1971

Independent Voices: an Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press
Periodicals by feminists, student radicals, Indigenous peoples, anti-war activists, Black rights advocates, LGBTQ activists, extreme right-wing press, and more.
Coverage: 1950s - present
Alternative Press Index (API)
Tracks articles and other news pieces published in non-mainstream periodicals from the US and Canada.
Coverage: 1969 - present

API indexes all articles of 5 or more paragraphs, including: editorials, regular columns, essays, fiction; speeches, interviews, statistics, reprints; bibliographies, directories, resource lists; autobiographies, biographies, obituaries, memoirs; and reviews: book, film, record, TV, drama, arts, and multimedia.

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Nexis Uni
News, legal, and business sources from around the world, Find news, legislation, case law, statutes, company profiles, market & industry reports.
Coverage: 1970s - present

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American broadcast media sources

National Jukebox
Coverage: 1910 - 1925
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Programs of publicly funded radio and television from across America.
Coverage: 1940s - present
C-SPAN Video Library
Over 170,000 hours of archived C-SPAN programs.
Coverage: 1987 - present