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American Studies: Research Seminar: Finding Newspaper Articles

Why Newspapers?

Newspapers allow you to keep up with current issues and events. You can also use historical newspapers to find out how issues and events were reported during a specific time in history.

Newspapers

Contemporary Accounts

Access World News: Access to the full text of over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers.; Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

Historical Accounts

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900: The full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations etc., from American popular and literary magazines and journals that began publication between 1741 and 1900. Search by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text.; Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access

Historical New York Times: Allows you to search and display the full image of articles published in the New York Times back to 1851. The two+ most recent years are not included, use Access World News.; Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access.

Historical Washington Post: Search and display the full image of articles published in the Washington Post between 1877 and 1993.; Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access.

Chicago Defender: The Chicago Defender was the most influential African-American newspaper of the 20th century. With the majority of its readership outside the Chicago region, it served as the de facto national black newspaper in the U.S. Search and display the full text of articles published between 1910 and 1975.; Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers: Full-text database of 500 newspapers published between 1800 and 1900.; Off-Campus Access Rutgers-restricted Access.

Subject Guide

Natalie Borisovets

Contact:

185 University Avenue
John Cotton Dana Library
Newark, N.J. 07102

Subjects:American Studies, Communication, Criminal Justice, History - Global & Eurasian, History - North America, Journalism & Media Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Literatures in English, New Jerseyana, Political Science, Social Work, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, Women's & Gender Studies

Last Updated: Sep 1, 2020 2:40 PM
URL: https://libguides.rutgers.edu/c.php?g=337206
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Subjects: American Studies, Course Guides (Newark)

Tags: american_studies, newark_american_studies

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