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Periodicals

American Periodicals Series, 1740-1940 This link opens in a new window
This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Gale Popular Magazines This link opens in a new window
Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the InfoTrac products.
NOVELNY databases are provided free to the public by the New York State Library. The databases can only be accessed within the geographical boundaries of New York State. When logging in you will see a NOVELNY screen requesting your location information. If you are in New York State, you can proceed to the database by selecting the "Use My Location" button or waiting five seconds.
Proquest Comprehensive This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive: cross-search all our ProQuest databases at once. It contains access to historical and current newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journal articles. Subject Areas: Arts & Humanities, Business, General Research, Health Sciences & Nursing, Literature, News & Issues, Science & Technology, Social Sciences

American Civil War Newspapers
Virginia Tech
Chronicling America: Newspapers (1836-1922)
Library of Congress. The New York Tribune, the Evening World, and the Sun are among the city's papers included.
The Crises
The Crises: When W. E. B. Du Bois founded The Crisis in 1910, as the house magazine of the fledgling NAACP, he created what is arguably the most widely read and influential periodical about race and social injustice in U.S. history.
Ebony Magazine (1954-2008)
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Elephind
This database offers over 55 million items (newspaper pages/articles) from several countries. Try to limit your results to a specific time range.
Google Magazines
A large collection of digitized editions of several large magazines.
Google News Archive
Dates for newspapers range from 1700 - 2014. The archive is weak for the 60s and 70s but does contain information for the 80s - present.
Historical Newspapers, Cornell University
American Historical Newspapers Online: Regions and Subjects
Life Magazine 1936-1972
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events.
The Masses (1911-1917)
Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. "The Masses, a richly illustrated radical magazine, was published monthly in New York from 1911 until 1917, when it was suppressed by the government for its anti-war and anti-government perspective."
Media History Digital Library
We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. Includes trade papers and fan magazines.
Northern New York Historical Newspapers
Dates covered: 1811-2010. Currently consists of more than 2.2 million pages from 52 newspapers.
Small Town Newspapers
Over 250 titles. "Browse and search the scanned newspaper archive from 1846 up to the current edition."
University of Pennsylvania - Historical Newspapers Online
The largest collection of free, digitized newspaper collections.
The Village Voice (1955-1994)
From the Google News Archive. "The Village Voice introduced free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse. As the nation's first and largest alternative newsweekly, the Voice carries on the same tradition of no-holds-barred reporting and criticism it embraced when it began publishing nearly 60 years ago."
Jet
Nov 1951 through 2008 available online through Google Magazines.

News Shows

Boston TV News Digital Library: 1960—2000
WHDH film collection (1960- mid-1970s), Cambridge Community Television (1988 to 1999), Northeast Historic Film’s WCVB film collection (1970-1979), and WGBH-produced The Reporters (1970-1973), Evening Compass (1973-1975) and the Ten O’Clock News.
British Pathe
The collection dates from 1896 to 1976, the collection includes footage of international major events.
Encyclopedia of Television
Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC)
Internet Archive: News and Public Affairs Video
"An analysis of news and public affairs independent from traditional corporate media is available from this diverse video library. These collections offer an alternative way to view and interpret current news and public affairs."
The Paley Center for New Media
Primary sources about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms.
TV News Archive
Dates: 2009 - Present. Uses closed captioning to enable users to search, quote and borrow U.S. TV news programs.

Film & TV

Moving Image Archive
This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news.
UCLA Film and Television Archive
A selection of films, television and radio programs preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive online.
Encyclopedia of Television, Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC)
Contains over 14,000 records which include television and radio programs and artifacts.

US History - 10th Grade Spring Research Paper, Dr. Johnson: The News: Papers, TV Shows, etc.

Periodicals

News Shows

Film & TV