Articles & Databases
188 resources found.
- (-) Newspapers
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922)
Searchable full text and full image articles from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1874 - 1922.
Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
Searchable full-text and page images from The Chicago Defender archive. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
New York Heritage
New York Heritage.org is a portal to free digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions contributed by libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 (Readex)
Searchable full-text and page images of over 170 periodicals, published in 26 states, by and about African Americans. Includes academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, and annual reports. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of Readex/Newsbank.
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
The Daily Mail Historical Archive offers the searchable, full-text content of Britain's Daily Mail, including all of the major news stories, features, advertisements and images from 1896-2004. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
A unique visual archive of 19th century Victorian Britain, including illustrations and photographs of events ranging from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Boer war. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Literaturnaia Gazeta Digital Archive
Searchable full-text and page images of Literaturnaia gazeta (1929-) a landmark publication in Russia’s cultural heritage which focuses on literary and intellectual life. It is updated once a year. For recent issues see PressReader. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962)
Full text and full page and article images of the following titles: New-York Tribune (1841-1842); New-York Daily Tribune (1842-1866); New-York Tribune (1866-1924); New York Herald, New York Tribune (1924-1926); The New York Herald Tribune (1926-1962). **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
The Sunday Times, 1822-2006
Full-text archive of the London Sunday Times from its first issue in 1822 until 2006.
Times of India, 1838-2003
Full text access to the Times of India, from 1838-2003.
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News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek)
An archival collection comprising the backfiles of major magazines, including the Newsweek archive, spanning areas including current events, international relations, and public policy. These titles offer multiple perspectives on the contemporary contexts of the major events, trends, and interests in these fields throughout the twentieth century. The collection will provide valuable primary source content for researchers in fields ranging from history and political science, through to law and economics. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Central European Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities
The Central European Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities is open-access database publishing English reviews and abstracts of articles that appear mostly in national languages in scientific journals devoted to humanities and social sciences in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Serbia and Ukraine.
Gale Primary Resources
A full-text database that cross-searches Gale's primary source collections - formerly Artemis Primary Sources, including Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO), Nineteenth-Century Collections Online (NCCO), and Sabin Americana. *Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
A collection of historical Mexican and Mexican American publications from Tuscon, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico. From the University of Arizona libraries.
PowerSearch (Gale)
This resource searches across all of the Gale databases to which NYPL subscribes, including Academic One File, General One File, and Infotrac Newsstand. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
American Underworld: The Flash Press - Crime, Scandal, and Blackmail Papers of the Nineteenth Century
The Flash Press covered the seamier aspects of urban life in the mid-19th century. Covering topics such as, prostitution, gambling, urban gangs, illicit sporting activities, and sensational crimes. To many of their readers, the Flash Press also conveyed an implicit threat of blackmail, which often led to very ephemeral print runs. Dates of coverage 1826 to 1876.
This database provides access to a unique, rare, short-lived and often bawdy form of journalism. It covers many topical categories including but not limited to: satirical and often humorous articles on the illicit, low-life aspects of life in the city; urbane critiques of bordellos and their inhabitants; original poems and songs devoted to off-color episodes and characters; interviews with and articles about the most notorious “rakes” of the era; extensive coverage of police activities and sensational crimes and trials; detailed lists of ongoing criminal investigations, some of which are highly satirical; Reviews of the bawdiest theatrical performances; reports on both legal and illegal sporting events such as cock-fighting, bare-knuckle boxing, and horse racing; reporting on gambling and noteworthy gamblers; Rare and detailed coverage of the underground economy of urban America in the 19th century. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of Readex/Newsbank.
New York Times (1851-2016) w/ Index
Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive with the option to search by subject headings (index covers 1851-1993). **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of ProQuest.
African American Historical Serials Collection
Documents the history of African American life and religious organizations from materials published between 1829 and 1922. Over 170 titles from 75 different institutions are fully text-searchable. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Full text of entertainment industry trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting, and theater. Titles include Variety (1905-2000), Billboard (1894-2000), Broadcasting (1931-2000) and more. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
New York Herald (1840-1865)
Searchable full-text and page images from the New York Herald, 1840-1865, through the ProQuest Civil War Era database. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Wall Street Journal, 1984-present
Full text of the Wall Street Journal, 1984-present. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of ProQuest.
HarpWeek
Full-text digital database of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), the leading American illustrated magazine of its day, covering political, military, social, and cultural stories. HarpWeek may be browsed by date or literary genre; the full text is searchable by keywords. **Patrons should read the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy of this resource before searching.**
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
A historical archive of several million cross-searchable pages of books, serials, supreme court records and briefs, and key manuscript collections from the United States, Great Britain, and France concerning debates of slavery and abolition, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Institution of Slavery, and the Age of Emancipation. Provides a context for further research through links to chronology, biographies, bibliographies, and websites.
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection
The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection provides digital access to American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. The fifty thematic subsets include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals not available from any other source and provide content detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century. These specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more. See below for collections:
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The DPLA is a platform that brings together many collections of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.