LibGuides: Pan African Studies : News and Newspapers

Historical Black Newspapers

African American Newspapers 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998, provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This collection includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles.
Lesson Plans: Easy-to-use assignments
Atlanta Daily World This link opens in a new window
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century. Atlanta Daily World is one of the ten ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers.
Baltimore Afro-American This link opens in a new window
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) was the most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast. It was the first black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents.
Chicago Defender This link opens in a new window
The Chicago Defender (1910-1975): A leading African American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. Part of the ProQuest Historical Black Newspaper Collection.
Los Angeles Sentinel This link opens in a new window
The Historic Los Angeles Sentinel provides full-text access to the most important African-American newspaper published in Los Angeles. Articles are available from 1934 through 1940, and from 1946 through 2010.

Historical African American Newspapers Available Online (Marist Univeristy Guide)
This guide provides a list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google. Most of the content is available for free, though it is at the discretion of the institution providing the content. Much of the remaining content is available through the Cal State LA databases listed above.

Newspapers

Historical Los Angeles Times (1881-1994) This link opens in a new window
Historical Los Angeles Times offers completely searchable full text and full image coverage from 1881-1994. It gives quick and accurate Web access to articles, editorials, classified ads, comics, cartoons, photos, maps, and graphics. The collection provides access to every page from every available issue. For electronic access to current Los Angeles Times from 1985 to present, use Los Angeles Times (1985-present).
Los Angeles Times (1996- current) This link opens in a new window
Southern California's largest daily newspaper. For electronic access to the historical segment of Los Angeles Time from 1881 to 1994, use Los Angeles Times (1881-1994) or Historical Los Angeles Times.
DESCRIPTION:
The Los Angeles Times is the Southern California's largest daily newspaper. CSULA has electronic access to the newspaper from 1/1/1985 to present.
The historical segment of the Los Angeles Times from 1881-1992 is available for electronic access at Historical Los Angeles Times.
The Los Angeles Times is also available at its own website: http://www.latimes.com/. One can access articles from the last week of the paper, as well as some specially selected older stories at no cost.

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Los Angeles Sentinel This link opens in a new window
The Historic Los Angeles Sentinel provides full-text access to the most important African-American newspaper published in Los Angeles. Articles are available from 1934 through 1940, and from 1946 through 2010.

California Digital Newspaper Collection
A Freely Accessible Repository of Digitized California Newspapers from 1846 to the Present
California Newspaper Project
INDEX ONLY, NO FULL TEXT of Historic California newspapers. Its database allows researchers to narrow their contacts to institutions holding the relevant titles.
La Opinión Archives (1926 - 2008)
A Spanish-Lanuage newpaper published in Los Angles, California. Freely availible through the Google News Archive.
Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
From the University of Arizona. The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.

Historical New York Times (1851-2019) This link opens in a new window
The New York Times (1851-2019) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Every issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.
New York Times (1980-present) This link opens in a new window
New York Times (1980-present) delivers global breaking news, 24/7 updates, and opinions in all subjects.

Washington Post
For Historical Issues Use:
1987-1996 (Print Version Only)
1996- Present (Print Version Only)
For Current & Up to Date News Use:
2016- Present: The Post Online

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Click the link for a list of Newspapers included in the collection.
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
American Periodicals Series includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home and more.
African American Newspapers 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998, provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This collection includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles.
Lesson Plans: Easy-to-use assignments
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century.
Lesson Plans: Easy-to-use assignments
InfoTrac Newsstand (Gale OneFile: News) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Alternative Press Index Archive This link opens in a new window
Produced quarterly by the Alternative Press Center, indexes nearly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.
Coverage: 1969-1990
Alt PressWatch SoftLine This link opens in a new window
A full text database of over 170 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Atlanta Daily World This link opens in a new window
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century. Atlanta Daily World is one of the ten ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers.
Baltimore Afro-American This link opens in a new window
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) was the most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast. It was the first black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents.
Chicago Defender This link opens in a new window
The Chicago Defender (1910-1975): A leading African American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. Part of the ProQuest Historical Black Newspaper Collection.

Chronicaling America Historical Newspapers
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Guide to Historical African American Newspapers Available Online (Marist Univeristy Guide)
This guide provides a list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google. Much of the content is available for free, though some is under restricted access. It includes archives of current papers and papers that are no longer operating. It does not include papers that are currently running and only offer access to the most recent articles.

Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Covers news, culture and history of ethnic and minority issues (English/Espanol) in over 200 publications, minority and native press publications, including newspapers, magazines and journals.
Articles written by and about various ethnic groups in the United States including Latinos/Hispanic, African/Caribbean, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Native American, Eastern European, and Asian American.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Formerly Newsstand, Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text form.
Global Newsstream provides collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Global Newsstream incorporates the U.S. Newsstream, Canadian Newsstream, and International Newsstream databases. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.

DIRECT LINKS TO MAJOR NEWSPAPERS:

Google News Archive
free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to 1700s.
Hermoteca National Digital De Mexico
Spanish Language digital archive of newspapers from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Some content is restricted to UNAM affiliates only.

London Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) This link opens in a new window
The Times Digital Archive has millions of articles from the London Times. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

African American Periodicals 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports, and other genres.
Lesson Plans: Easy-to-use assignments
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
American Periodicals Series includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home and more.

Ebony Magazine
Nov 1959- Dec 2008 available from Google Books.
A monthly magazine focusing on news, politics, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, and other topics of interest to the African American community.

Harper's Bazaar Archive (The) This link opens in a new window
The Harper’s Bazaar Archive includes the complete runs of the US and UK editions of Harper’s Bazaar, from 1867 to the present (US edition) and 1929-2015 (UK edition), fully indexed and searchable. This full color collection of approximately 500,000 pages provides a powerful lens into American, British, and international fashion, society, and popular culture from the mid-19th century forward.

JET Magazine
Nov 1951 - Oct 2005 available from Google Books.
A weekly news magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment in the African American community.
Life Magazine
Nov 1936- Dec 1972 available from Google Books.
An American wide-ranging weekly (until 1978, then monthly) general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography.

LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The archives of twenty-six magazines are included in LGBT Magazine Archive. The complete backfile of The Advocate is made available digitally for the first time. The oldest surviving continuously published US title of its type (having launched in 1967), it is the periodical of record for information about the LGBT community; it has charted the key developments in LGBT history and culture for over 50 years.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890 - 1982 This link opens in a new window
Indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Content Includes: All the information from 44 Readers’ Guide annuals and
over 3 million articles, many peer-reviewed, from over 550 leading magazines
Vogue Archive (The) This link opens in a new window
The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists, and illustrators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is an essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender, and modern socialhistory – past, present, and future.

The database will allow fashion design and photography students to find inspirational images, but will also cater for academic study. Fashion marketing students will be able to research the history of a brand identity by viewing every advertisement for a brand such as Revlon, Coty, Versace, or Chanel between specified dates. Researchers in cultural studies and gender studies will be able to explore themes such as body image, gender roles, and social tastes from the 1890s to the present.

ProQuest's unique partnership with Condé Nast means that the latest issue will be added each month with no embargo period. Users can conduct powerful searches to reveal results in all text, captions, and titles throughout the magazine, including advertisements, covers and fold-outs.

Guide

The Vogue Archive Libuide from ProQuest
Women's Magazine Archive (1846-2005) This link opens in a new window
Women’s Magazine Archive provides access to the backfiles of the foremost titles of leading women's interest consumer magazines, including, such as Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Day, Parents, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Essence. Topics covered in these collections include family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, and more.

Alternative Press

Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new window
Covers over 120 international periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
For a list of periodicals and newspapers available through this database, see this online list provided by the publisher.
Alternative Press Index Archive This link opens in a new window
Produced quarterly by the Alternative Press Center, indexes nearly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.
Coverage: 1969-1990

Fact checking tools

Factcheck.org
A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Institute. A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. They monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Politifact
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. PolitiFact is run by editors and reporters from the Tampa Bay Times, an independent newspaper in Florida, as is PunditFact, a site devoted to fact-checking pundits. The Tampa Bay Times is owned by the not-for-profit Poynter Institute. The PolitiFact state sites are run by news organizations that have partnered with the Times. The state sites and PunditFact follow the same principles as the national site.
OpenScecrets.org
Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Our vision is for Americans, empowered by access to clear and unbiased information about money’s role in politics and policy, to use that knowledge to strengthen our democracy. Our mission is to produce and disseminate peerless data and analysis on money in politics to inform and engage Americans, champion transparency, and expose disproportionate or undue influence on public policy.
Interactive Media Bias Chart
Browse and search for popular media sources to see where they fall on the political left-right axis and reliability rankings.

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