Finding Newspaper Articles
The Library subscribes to the full text of several historic newspapers online. These are a treasure trove of primary source material for various events.
- Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowSearch multiple newspaper archives back to the first issues. Includes complete issues of the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Austin American Statesman (1871-1980), Chicago Defender (1909-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1997), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2006), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Los Angeles Times (1881-1996), New York Times (1851-2016), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), Wall Street Journal (1889-2002), and Washington Post (1877-2003).
Coverage: Varies by newspaper. - Times Digital Archive 1785-2013 This link opens in a new windowDigital edition of The Times (London) with full facsimile images. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Bibliography Mining
If someone has already done research on a topic you are investigating you are encouraged to seek out the same sources. Sometimes you may find an abundant amount of material that wasn't important to them, but is perfect for you. Other times you may find you disagree with their interpretation, which will give you something to write about from a fresh perspective.
Theses and dissertations are a great place to find bibliographies (sometimes called literature reviews) Many can be found in this database-
- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowMulti-subject. World's largest collection of full text theses and dissertations. Contains 1.7 million full-text graduate works and 3.8 million abstracted or indexed records along with the ability to cross-search with other ProQuest resources. Coverage: 1861 to present
Finding journal articles and documents online
The library has many databases dealing with historical topics. A full list of those database is available here
A subset of the above list contains those databases with large amounts of primary source material. That list is here
The databases listed below are some good starting points for your research-
- Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 This link opens in a new windowConfidential print documents covering early events in South America, Brazil, Mexico, Central America and Caribbean, Central and South America, Aregentina, Paraguay and Uruguay from the perspective of the British Foreign and Colonial Offices. Topics covered include slavery and the slave trade, immigration, relations with indigenous peoples, wars and territorial disputes, the fall of the Brazilian monarchy, British business and financial interests, industrial development, the building of the Panama Canal, and the rise to power of populist rulers such as Perón in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil. At the time of their writing, these documents were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.
Coverage: 1833-1969 - HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust makes over 8.8 million volumes of digitized book and journal collections available from some of the nation’s great research libraries.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowHistory and social science. History of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 2,690 academic historical journals from more than 90 countries with coverage extending to related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowMulti-Subject. -- Access begins with the first volume for many journal titles, but usually does not have the newest volumes of each journal.
- Periodicals Archive OnlineInternational, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines.
E-journal backfiles, over 250 journals
Coverage 1802-2002
- Oxford Bibliographies (More subjects added) This link opens in a new windowCollections - American Literature, Childhood Studies, Communication, Criminology, Education, Latin American Studies, Latino Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Work and Sociology. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field and is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship with original commentary, annotations, and recommendations on the best works available whether it be a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
- Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI Online)Original literary works, political, economic, social issues, social science, arts & letters and the humanities concerning Central & South America, Mexico, Caribbean basin, United States-Mexico border region, & Hispanics in the US.
Coverage 1970 to present
Format Many linked full text articles & book reviews. Citations to documents.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowHistory and social science. History of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 2,690 academic historical journals from more than 90 countries with coverage extending to related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology.
- Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection This link opens in a new windowLatin American primary resources on cultural life, boundary disputes, religion, and politics. 19th and early 20th century
- Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary SourcesThis site provides links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. The materials listed are freely available to the public and were created or are hosted at an academic institution associated with SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials), either through institutional membership or through the personal membership of a staff member. The sources linked below range from collections of Mexican incunabula (1559-1600), to Latin American posters. The site is organized by format “Historical Texts by Country“, “Historical Texts General“, “Statistics“, “Visual Material by Country“, “Visual Material General“, and “Miscellaneous.”
Questions about the collections or links should be directed to the host library or archive. Please note that content is being continuously added to this site. You are encouraged to revisit it for updates and for added content to existing collections.
- Portal to Texas History This link opens in a new windowGateway to Texas history materials held unique collections from Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, genealogical societies, and private family collections.
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new windowThis historical archive embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way. It covers a wide spectrum of interests related to the history of slavery: legal issues; the Caribbean; children and women under slavery; modes of resistance; and much more. Part 1: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, Part III: Institution of Slavery, Part IV: Age of Emancipation. 1490-1896
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new windowLegal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
