United States History: News Sources

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Newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.

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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, features more than 270 newspapers from 35 states, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles

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Our subscription includes access to the following titles:
▪ The Colored American (1837-1840)
▪ Freedom's Journal (1827-1829)
▪ The National Era (1847-1860)
▪ The North Star (1847-1851)
▪ Weekly Advocate

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More than 6,500 American historical periodical titles dating from 1691 to 1877.
Series 1: 1691-1820.
Series 2: 1821-1837.
Series 3: 1838-1852.
Series 4: 1853-1865.
Series 5: 1866-1877.

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North American Indigenous journalism spanning two centuries, featuring publications from a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016.

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American Periodicals, 1740-1900 paints a vivid picture of the American experience from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.The contents include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.

The California Newspaper Project (CNP) was an 18 year effort to identify, describe and preserve California newspapers, with close to 9,000 California newspapers.inventoried in over 1,400 repositories throughout the state.

A database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.

If you encounter an infoweb.newsbank.com login, go back to the UCSB Library home page, click on 'Articles & Databases" and look for the Early American Newspapers Series I link.

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Early American Newspapers, Series 1 offers access to more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876. Focusing largely on the 18th century, Series 1 is based on Clarence S. Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies.

If you encounter an infoweb.newsbank.com login, go back to the UCSB Library home page, click on 'Articles & Databases" and look for the Early American Newspapers Series 2 link.

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Series 2 focuses on the period between 1820 and 1860, when the number of American newspapers rose dramatically. In the first half of the 19th century, the number of American newspapers increased from less than 200 to more than 3,000. During this time period, westward expansion and the penny press helped create thousands of local newspapers, and daily editions replaced many weeklies. In addition, the format of newspapers was transformed by an increasing emphasis on society, industry, scientific advances, investigative journalism and stories of human interest

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Four major historical resources: Palmer's Index to The Times (London) which covers the period from 1790 to 1905 in The Times. The Official Index to The Times which takes the coverage forward from 1906 to 1980. Palmer's Full Text Online 1785-1870, providing access to the full articles referenced in Palmer's index to The Times. The Historical Index to The New York Times which covers The New York Times from 1851 to September 1922.

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Comprehensive indexing of popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890-1982. For coverage of similar material from 1984 to the present, use Academic Search Complete

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The Alternative Press Index draws from roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications which report on and analyze cultural, economic, political, and social change. API indexes such periodicals as: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books.

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The Alternative Press Index Archive contains over 470,000 citations drawn from roughly 700 alternative, radical, and left publications.

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This database contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer. The text begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies.

Cornell University's electronic collection of core books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines published between 1850 and 1950.

Complete runs of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals drawn from special collections of leading academic libraries, covering the 1960s, '70s and '80s.

Published and primary sources related to the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.

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Leading women's interest consumer magazines from the late-19th century through to 2005. Titles include:
▪ Better Homes and Gardens (1922-2005)
▪ Cosmopolitan (1886-2005)
▪ Good Housekeeping (1885-2005)
▪ Ladies’ Home Journal (1885-2005)
▪ Parents (1926-2005)
▪ Redbook (1903-2005)
▪ Seventeen (1944-2005)
▪ Town & Country (1846-2005)
▪ Woman’s Day (1937-2005)