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Newspapers with Both Current and Historical Coverage
- Nation Archive (This link opens in a new window)Contains all issues of The Nation, beginning with its first in 1865 to the present. Articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles are included.
- Newspaper Source Plus (This link opens in a new window)Contains full-text access to major international and national newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (This link opens in a new window)Funded in part by the generosity of the Flora and Jeremiah Buckley Library Fund. Contains local, regional, national, and international news with deep archives. Provides extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes as well as law reviews. Also includes business information on U.S. and international companies.
- US Newsstream (This link opens in a new window)Enables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format.
Newspapers With Only Historical Coverage
- African American Newspapers Series 1, 1827-1998 (This link opens in a new window)
A full-text collection of newspapers published by or for African Americans.
- Connecticut Historical Newspapers (This link opens in a new window)A collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers published in Connecticut. Content includes general news, election returns, legislative acts, letters, poetry, shipping news, and advertisements.
- New York Times - Historical (This link opens in a new window)Provides every issue in PDF format from 1851 (with a three year embargo). Includes news articles, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, advertisements, and more.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant (This link opens in a new window)Access to digitized issues of the Hartford Courant from 1764-1922. Access to 1992-Present is available in U.S. Newsstream.
- Chronicling AmericaAn Internet-based, searchable database of historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages being developed and maintained by the Library of Congress. Digitized material currently covers the historic period 1756-1963.
Magazines with Both Current and Historical Coverage
- Academic Search Premier (This link opens in a new window)
This multidisciplinary database contains peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, ebooks, and videos.
Magazines With Only Historical Coverage
- Life Magazine Archive (This link opens in a new window)
Collection of cover-to-cover format archives of Life Magazine, from the very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000.
- Sports Illustrated Archive (This link opens in a new window)
A cover-to-cover format archive of Sports Illustrated Magazine, from its very first issue in August 1954 through December 2000.
- Time Magazine Archive (This link opens in a new window)
A cover-to-cover format archive of Time Magazine, dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000.
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Find Background Information
General Background Sources:
- Credo Reference Academic Core (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
- Britannica Academic (This link opens in a new window)
Provides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
Discipline-Specific Background Sources:
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History by Call Number: Online and Reference Main Level D54 .E53 2013 v.1-13ISBN: 9781405179355Publication Date: 2012
Historical statistics of the United States : earliest times to the presentCall Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2006
Milestone Documents in World HistoryCall Number: Reference Stacks Main Level D5 .M55 2010 v. 3 - 4Publication Date: 2010
The New Atlas of World History by Call Number: Stacks Upper Level G1030. H43 2011ISBN: 9780691152691Publication Date: 2011
Find Primary Sources
- American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals (Series 1-5) (This link opens in a new window)
Provides access to American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
- American Broadsides and Ephemera (This link opens in a new window)
A primary source collection of broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.
- American State Papers (This link opens in a new window)
Collection of primary source material from the legislative (Congress) and executive branch of the United States government produced between 1789 and 1838.
- Archive of Americana (This link opens in a new window)
This set of primary source collections includes America’s Historical Imprints (includes American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I; Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819); America’s Historical Newspapers (includes African American Newspapers Series I, 1827-1998, Conecticut's Historical Newspapers); American State Papers; and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994, with maps.
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 (This link opens in a new window)A primary source collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides listed in the bibliography compiled by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement.
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 (This link opens in a new window)A primary source collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides listed in the bibliography compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
- Serial Set Maps (This link opens in a new window)Provides access to more than 70,000 maps published within the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994. Covers the U.S. and international locations.
- Social Explorer (This link opens in a new window)Provides access to historical census data and demographic information. Visualize and interact with the data by creating maps, charts, and reports. Includes the entire US Census history from 1790 to 2010, all annual updates from the American Community Survey, and more.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (This link opens in a new window)Provides a summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Data is culled from a variety of governmental resources.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 (This link opens in a new window)Contains every publication from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994).
- Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000 (This link opens in a new window)Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history.
- Early English Books Online (This link opens in a new window)A primary source collection containing digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (This link opens in a new window)A primary source collection containing digitized books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera printed in the United Kingdom and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue.
- Empire Online (This link opens in a new window)
Printed and visual primary source materials for the study of ‘Empire” and its theories, practices, and consequences. Also Includes secondary sources such as scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology.
- European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 (This link opens in a new window)A guide to the citations of printed works about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Developed by the John Carter Brown Library.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (This link opens in a new window)Database of digitized primary sources from the nineteenth century, curated by an international team of scholars and culled from the collections of the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the British Library, and other major repositories. Contains photographs, books, manuscripts, maps, letters, government documents, journals, and newspapers.
Use Additional Online Resources
- Library of Congress Digital CollectionsProvides access to the Library of Congress collections, which include many primary documents, maps, and photographs. Topics covered include Literature, Presidents, Religion, and African-American History.
- American PanoramaA historical atlas tool developed by the University of Richmond that creates visualizations of human movements over time.
- Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United StatesA digital reproduction of many of the maps found in the print version of the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This site, funded by the University of Richmond and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data.
- Chronicling AmericaAn Internet-based, searchable database of historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages being developed and maintained by the Library of Congress. Digitized material currently covers the historic period 1756-1963.
- Cornerstone DocumentsThis page, maintained by the U. S. Government Printing Office, provides digital access to important documents relevant to United States history.
- DocsTeachSearch for or browse over 3,000 U.S. history primary-source documents and activities. Teachers can customize pre-made history activities, create brand-new activities from scratch, and save and organize activities in an account to share with students.
- EuroDocsOnline Sources for European History
Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations - Internet Modern History SourcebookThe primary source material in this collection covers the modern and ancient history of countries around the world. Includes legal and political documents, contemporary narrative accounts, personal memoirs, songs, and newspaper reports, as well as cultural, philosophical, religious, and scientific documents. Courtesy Fordham University.
- World Digital LibraryThe World Digital Library shares digitized primary documents from all over the world, including maps, manuscripts, prints, and much more. Using the map and the timeline on the homepage, researchers can discover sources geographically and chronologically.
Cite Your Sources
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Find Other Resources in the Academic Commons
The Library isn't the only resource available to you! The following departments are housed in the Library, but provide different services than the Librarians do:
- The Office of Accessibility
- The Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab
- Global Fairfield
- The ITS Help Desk
- The Math Center
- The Science Center
- The Writing Center
History Course Guides
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