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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 freely available digitized historic newspapers see ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers . For contemporary news coverage see the e-Newspapers guide.
- 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 1872-1989
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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 1881-2012
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- New York Amsterdam News 1922-2010
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- New York Times 1851-2017
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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 1889-2003
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- Washington Post 1877-2004
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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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- 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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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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