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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.

sample newspaper & magazines

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:


Magazines

This list includes links to digitized magazine collections, single magazines and indexes to 19th & 20th century magazines & journals.

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.