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America History and Life
Search for citations to scholarly articles on the history of North America, from 1450.

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Unlock a treasure trove of knowledge with JSTOR! Dive into over 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources across 75 disciplines.
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Includes articles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

The Cornell University Library Making of America
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others, America's Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
Gale Primary Sources: 17th &18th Century Burney NewspapersCollection This link opens in a new window
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.
Ethnic Newswatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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This interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press is designed to provide the "other side of the story" for area and ethnic studies, such as Jewish studies, African American studies, and Hispanic American studies.
New York Amsterdam News: 1922-2010 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
News (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Get the scoop with an innovative Web-based, full-text ASCII-formatted newspaper database that lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields. Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times.
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
An excellent resource for historical news coverage. Includes Nineteenth-Century American Drama: Popular Culture and Entertainment, 1820-1900 //,Archive of Americana : contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera.// America's Historical Newspapers //
American State Papers, 1789-1838 Legislative and executive documents,
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817 - 1994
Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Congress. and Serial Set Maps
Use Newsbank Special reports for Current Events
New York Times Digital Edition (registration required) This link opens in a new window
CUNY offers an Academic Pass to the Digital New York Times to CUNY faculty, students and staff! Click the link to register and learn more. You MUST use your Brooklyn College (CUNY) email to register. More about Academic Pass
New York Times Historical Edition: 1851 - 2013 (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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The New York Times Historical Edition offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1865. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Archive of Americana This link opens in a new window
The digital Archive of Americana is a family of comprehensive historical collections that allows researchers to discover and explore the United States in unprecedented depth and detail. It includes hundreds of historic newspapers, executive documents and reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. America's Historical Newspapers; American State Papers, 1789-1838; and U.S. Congressional Serial Set are among the resources available in this historical collection.
Brooklyn Newsstand This link opens in a new window
Brooklyn Newsstand is a collection of digitized Brooklyn newspapers made possible through a partnership between Brooklyn Public Library and Newspapers.com. The titles represent various Brooklyn neighborhoods and each newspaper, provides a wide variety of coverage and includes information on politics, business, education, church events, sports, entertainment, and community happenings. Some papers provide coverage of international events while others are exclusively devoted to events in Brooklyn. Since no two titles are identical in scope the individual descriptions should be consulted to discover the precise contents of each paper.
Brooklyn Newsstand (2,402,000 digitized pages) contains 44 Brooklyn based newspapers, each listed below with date ranges and description.

Chronicling America Newspapers Project
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.
New York Historical Society Digital Collections
The New-York Historical Society holds the fourth largest collection of American newspapers published before 1820: 634 titles by one estimate. To that number must be added the myriad mid-19th to early-20th century New York papers, as well as those published in outlying frontiers of the expanding nation, bringing the total number of titles held close to 10,000. While the collection is strongest in newspapers from New York City and State, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, it encompasses all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia.

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Provides access to full-text national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases. A tutorial is available at http://academic.Nexis Uni.com/online-services/academic-overview.aspx (under "Learn More").

New York Public Library Newspapers Guides
The NYPL has a large collection of New York City newspapers, both historical and current.

Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.
The digital collections comprise millions of items including books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and photos, maps, musical scores, films, sound recordings and more.
Archive of Americana This link opens in a new window
The digital Archive of Americana is a family of comprehensive historical collections that allows researchers to discover and explore the United States in unprecedented depth and detail. It includes hundreds of historic newspapers, executive documents and reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. America's Historical Newspapers; American State Papers, 1789-1838; and U.S. Congressional Serial Set are among the resources available in this historical collection.
Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
Archives Unbound includes digital collections of historical documents.

Chronicling America Newspapers Project
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.
Making of America
The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

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