Research Guide to Ethnic American Studies

Newspapers

This list includes Guides to Finding Newspapers as well as a short list of electronic newspaper Indexes and Full-text Databases.

See also "How to Look for Newspapers" and Databases for Americanists.

Lists of Yale's newspaper holdings are available online, at the SML Reference desk, and in the Microtext Center in SML.

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Guides to Finding Newspapers

American Newspapers, 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada. Ed. Winifred Gregory. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1967.
* Located in SML, Card Catalog Reference Shelf Z6945 A48 1967. Also in SML, Andrews Study

Brigham, Clarence Saunders.  History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.  Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947. 
*Located in SML, Reference Z6951 +B75 

Newspapers on Microform: United States, 1948-1983. Washington, DC: Library or Congress, 1984.
*Located in SML, Catalog Reference Desk Z6951 +U469. Also in SML, Reference, Microform Reading Room.

Newspaper Holdings of the Yale University Library is a record of Yale Library holdings of newspapers in microform and paper. This list does not include all of the newspapers to be found in the original, in reprints, or in facsimile in the SML stacks, in the Mudd Library, or in the Beinecke, though it does contain some of this material. Neither does it include all of the Underground Newspaper Collection (Film S618). It does include bound newspapers with a delta classification.

Underground Newspaper Collection (Newspapers on Film S614)
Titles included in the collection are listed in Orbis under Underground Press Collection Listing of Contents
SML, Microform, Reference Z6951 +U53 1963-1985

Indexes and Full-Text Databases

Academic Universe a full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information and much more.

Accessible Archives provides a searchable collection of American newspapers from the 18th &19th Centuries. Titles include the Pennsylvania Gazette and African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century.

Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive guide to the alternative press in North America.

Early American Newspapers features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. This collection is based largely on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.

Ethnic Newswatch contains newspapers and periodicals published by ethnic and minority presses of the Americas. 

Factiva contains nearly 8,000 sources from 118 countries and 22 languages, as well as 120 continuously updated newswires.

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877) Harper's Weekly during the Civil War Era, Reconstruction I and Reconstruction II with scanned images, together with a series of indexes.

Historical Newspapers Online
Contains the New York Times Index
*Print version of NYTI is located in SML, Reference, Index Case AI21 +N43 (1851-1945) and SML Microtext Center, AI21 +N43 (1946-present).

New York Daily Tribune Index. New York: The Tribune Association, 1875-1906.
SML, Reference, Index Case AI21 N442.

Left Index guide to the literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. A secondary emphasis is on significant but little known sources of news and ideas. Topics covered include the labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1925)
Boston Globe (1872 - 1922)
Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975)
Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1985)
Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1992)
Hartford Courant (1764 - 1922)
Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1985)
The New York Times (1851 - 2002)
The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1988)
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