Newspapers and Magazines

Indigenous Newspapers in North America presents the publications of 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.

Extensive full-text collection of Spanish-language and bilingual newspapers printed across the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Full text access to the oldest African American newspaper in Atlanta. The archive includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more. Coverage: 1931-2010.

Full text access to one of the most widely circulated Black newspapers on the Atlantic coast. Coverage: 1893-2010.

This historical newspaper provides first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time from an African-American perspective. This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text. Coverage: 1909-2010.

Editor and publisher William O. Walker established this newspaper as one of the most influential Black newspapers in Ohio. This historical Black newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1934-2010.

The oldest and largest Black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African American owned newspaper in the U.S. Coverage: 1934-2010.

Provides primary source material essential to the study of American history and African American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Great Migration and Civil Rights to the election of America’s first Black president. Explore nearly nine decades of everyday life as written from the perspective of this Detroit-based newspaper providing researchers with unprecedented access to perspectives and information excluded or marginalized in mainstream sources. Coverage: 1939-2010.

Full access to articles, photos, advertisements, obituaries and more from the New York Amsterdam News, one of the nation’s leading Black newspapers. Coverage: 1922-2010.

The only black newspaper to provide on-the-scene, day-to-day coverage of the 1930s Scottsboro trial, and was one of the best researched and well written black newspapers of its time. Coverage: 1916-2010.

Provides full text access to the oldest continuously published Black newspaper in the U.S. Coverage: 1912-2010.

One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights. Coverage: 1911-2010.