Finding newspaper and magazine articles from the time period you are researching is a two-step process. To find citations to individual articles, use a newspaper or periodical index. These indexes are available in print and/or electronic formats.
After you use the index, search a library catalog such as Serials Solutions to determine whether the periodical or newspaper is available at Andruss Library.
Newspaper indexes:
¥ Index to the Times (London)
¥ New York Times Index
¥ Historical Newspapers Online
¥ International Index to Periodicals
¥ Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide
¥ Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
¥ Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
¥ Social Sciences and Humanities Index
¥ Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
Below is a list of online databases that contain documents
such as newspapers on the Web, Collections of Online Primary Documents and Journals
to help you form a collection of pertinent research materials!
American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
Avalon Project http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. It is not intended to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by
linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.
Civil Right in Mississippi http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive is an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi.
Euro Docs http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Western European Primary Historical Documents
History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation,
the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Visible Knowledge Project.
Indiana Affairs http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler
Compiled and Edited by Charles J. Kappler
Internet Library of Early Journals http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
A joint project of the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford to digitize substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals.
Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/index.html
A collection of approximately 1,600 full-text books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Mazal Library http://www.mazal.org/
The MAZAL LIBRARY is a privately held and funded resource for historians, researchers, students and the general public. The library contains upwards of 20,000 books, microfilm rolls, pamphlets,
and ephemera related to the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry.
A collection of over 70,000 "NO-" original documents used in the Nuremberg Trials forms part of the library. These documents will eventually be linked to the appropriate references in the text of the actual procedings.
The National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.
Online Primary Document Collections http://library.csusm.edu/subject_guides/history/online_primary.asp
This listing provides links to some of the best internet portals and collections of primary documents. Note that a collection may contain materials for more than one subject area and may offer secondary material as well as primary.
Repository of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness.
UC Berkley Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySourcesOnTheWeb.html
This site is a gateway to primary materials that are available online.
Here is a link to an ongoing list of Primary Sources.
Note try to find newspapers by year, so that once you have the date for a newsworthy event, you can go to virtually any paper likely to cover the story.
