American & Latin American Studies

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• Current Newspapers and Magazines

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Search America's newspaper pages from 1789-1924. Although the full contents of each paper are not available, you can search for keywords in a wide range of papers from each state and find relevant articles from this service provided by The Library of Congress.


Access to the current New York Times and its archive

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Only available by creating an account to use current service and the archive. To create an account go to nytimes.com/passes and create an account using your UoP email address

The Archive is accessed through the main page. To use the search facility click here


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This online archive includes African-American newspapers as well as titles that pre-date a state's admission into the Union. There is a wide variety of titles and date coverage e.g. Afro-American (Baltimore), Daily Hot Blast, (Anniston, Alabama) Detroit Free Press, The Washington Globe, with the oldest newspaper dating from 1800. There are numerous ways to search or browse.


• Time 

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The famous US weekly magazine


Search over 200 years of articles. Articles are full facsimiles of what was published on the day and you can view the article in its original page location if you want.

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fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A comprehensive listing of American newspapers arranged by State. Be careful to check the cost of article retrieval as some are free and others are not.

 

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