Navigating Primary Source Databases (BMC)

Contains full-text primary resource materials in American history including newspapers, magazines, and genealogical records originally only offered on microfilm. Covers 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Contains full-text articles about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, including presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience. Covers 1827-1902 (with gaps).

Search through 280 African American newspapers from 35 states, published between 1827-1998. Includes Freedom's Journal (NY), the first African American-owned and operated newspaper.

Search through 2,000+ historical newspapers published in the United States between 1690-1922. Includes publications from all 50 states, large cities and small towns, and a mix of major newspapers and titles with smaller circulations.

Provides full-text access to newspaper pages from 1900 to 1910 and abstracts about American newspapers published between 1690 to the present.

Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series I (1639-1800).

Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series II (1801-1819). Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content. (from the website)

Browseable and searchable online collection of historical British newspapers, scanned in their original format. Covers 1800-1900.

Contains nearly 600 periodicals published in Great Britain from 1800-1900.

Search through 40 newspapers published in African countries between 1800-1922. Includes newspapers in English, Portuguese, Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans, and other languages.

Provides full text to the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India. Cross-search all Cengage subscribed newspaper collections via NewsVault.

FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world . The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. 1941-1996

Contains hundreds of international news for the period 1995-2013. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content. (from the website)

Offers full-page-images and article images from the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable image files.

The daily newspaper of record for the Philadelphia region. Online coverage 1860 to the present.

The daily newspaper of record for the Pittsburgh region. Online coverage 1786 to the present.

Use ProQuest Historical Newspapers for coverage from 1877.

Provides citations to Harper's Weekly magazine. Also contains browsable full-text of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War Era to the Gilded Age.

Provides full-text access to the entire run of the Illustrated London News, the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. Contains high-quality color images of all pages, and all text is fully searchable. Offers insight into all areas of culture and world history for the period covered. Covers 1842-2003.

Completely separate from the Times of London, the Sunday Times is known for their investigative journalism, providing commentary and analysis of the week's news.

Provides full-text and full-image articles from The Times of London for the years 1785-2019.

Weekly magazine providing full-text reviews of recent publications in multiple disciplines, including literature, philosophy, history, politics, and the arts.

Published daily in Johannesburg, South Africa between 1902-1985. It was the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall. Complete, fully searchable digital edition featuring every page of every issue

Full-text articles and images from the Daily mail (1896-2004) and the Daily mail Atlantic edition (1923-1931).

Includes over seventy seminal as well as lesser known contemporary indexes to English-language publishing prior to 1930. Access is by genre: 1. Multi-title Periodical Indexes (e.g., Poole's, Legal, Religion, Scientific Papers, etc.); 2. Book Indexes; 3. Newspaper Indexes; 4. Complete Individual Periodical Indexes (e.g., Harper's, Atlantic Monthly,etc.); 5. US Patents; Hansard's; US and UK Historical Government Documents

Index (and some full text) to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, from the 17th century to 1990s. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.

Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Search through 1,800 magazines and journals published in the United States between 1740-1940. Includes early scientific publications, trade journals, popular magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, and journals such as Puck, The Dial, and McClure's.

OpinionArchives provides electronic archives for journals of opinion, including The Nation, Commentary, The New Republic, Commonweal, Dissent, NACLA, American spectator, National review, Harper's magazine, New York review, and the New Yorker. The OpinionArchives metasearch tool provides cross-journal searching for all titles in the archive.