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History : American: Primary Sources: News, Magazines & Media
A research guide to primary and secondary sources for American history. Also see the African American & Asian American history guides.
Images: Chicago Defender 9/10/1955, Variety 6/29/1966, Vogue 9/15/1926, Helix 9/26/1968 & Minidoka Irrigator 11/18/1944
Newspapers
This page includes links to UW restricted digitized historic newspapers and selected freely available digitized newspapers. To find additional state collections of newspapers, check the Primary Sources by Region. For other freely available digitized historic newspapers see ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers. For current newspapers check the eNewspapers guide.
Major collections:
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Collection of 21 major newspapers covering the US (e.g., New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post), African American (e.g., Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Tribune, New York Amsterdam News) & international (Guardian, Times of India, Le Monde) - Access World News This link opens in a new window
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Primarily a current newspaper collection of regional, national, and international papers from 1980's-present. Also includes historic coverage of the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tacoma News Tribune & the Oregonian.
- African American Newspapers of the 19th century This link opens in a new window
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- Atlanta Constitution 1868-1984
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- Baltimore Afro American 1893-2010
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- Boston Globe 1872-1993
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- Chicago Defender 1909-2010
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- Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents in the 1920s
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- Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life This link opens in a new window
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- Los Angeles Sentinel 1934-2010
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- Los Angeles Times 1881-2015
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- New York Amsterdam News 1922-2010
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- New York Times 1851-2020
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- Oregonian 1861-
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- Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper & Periodical Index This link opens in a new window
- Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800
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- Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2010
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1901-
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- Seattle Times 1895-
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- Tacoma News Tribune 1889-
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- Wall Street Journal 1889-2012
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- Washington Post 1877-2007
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Magazines
This list includes links to digitized magazine collections, single magazines and indexes to 19th & 20th century magazines & journals.
- American Antiquarian Society Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
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- Bloomberg BusinessWeek Archive 1929-2000
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- Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982 This link opens in a new window
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- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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- National Geographic 1888-2015
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- News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek) This link opens in a new window
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- Rolling Stone Archive 1967-current
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- Vital Speeches of the Day 1934-
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Film, Radio & TV
This list includes links primarily to news & documentary oriented streaming media. For additional streaming media sources including documentaries see the Streaming Video Guide.
- 60 Minutes 1997-2005
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