Archives A-Z

Provides access to the major 19th century African American newspapers including The Christian Recorder (1861-1902), Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The North Star (1847-1851), and Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851-1863).

Presents a wide range of primary sources spanning from the 15th to the 21st century. This collection gives access to over sixty unique digital collection produced by Adam Matthew.

Includes full text of selected early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922. Villanova University has access to series 1 through 5 and 7.

Sourced from the Sequoyah National Research Center (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and the Newberry Library in Chicago, this newspaper archive covers nearly two hundred years of American Indian history in North America from 1828 to 2016 and offers American Indian perspectives on federal and tribal politics, self-representation, environmental activism, the American Indian Movement, tribal schools and colleges, and many other topics. It also features a series of topical essays.

Provides access to the full text of American magazines and journals published from the colonial period to the early 20th century.

Features newspapers articles, manuscripts, letters, pamphlets, proceedings, and books written by African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865.

Offers access to the major African American newspapers of the 20th century: the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), the Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), the Cleveland Call & Post (1934-1991), the Chicago Defender (1910-1975), the Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), the Norfolk Journal & Guide (1921-2003), the Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

Presents digital copies of surviving copies of the Black Panther newspaper. The Black Panther was the official organ of the Black Panther Party. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the newspaper in Oakland, California in 1967. It ceased publication on September 16, 1980.

Explores linkages between women’s suffrage and other social causes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - anti-slavery, anti-lynching, education reform and civil rights) as well as racism within the Suffrage Movement.

Includes over 160 newspaper titles, and spans the years of 1732 to 1950 over five distinct collections. Illuminating diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press.

Features digital copies of newspapers held by the British Library. Villanova University does not have access to the articles, but the search feature is open to all and permits the discovery of relevant articles which may be requested through interlibrary loan.

Provides access to British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th century with the majority of content from the 19th century. Covers a broad range of topics.

Features the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.

Explore the early history of the English newspaper. Learn about the English Civil War, the Restoration and 18th century political and cultural developments.“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. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of ‘news’ and ‘newspapers’ and the “free press,” totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. Newly digitized, all Burney treasures are now fully text-searchable.

Provides open access to selected U.S. Catholic newspapers from the early 19th century to the late 20th century.

Presents selected primary sources that elucidate relationships between China, America, and the Pacific region from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Experts in the field contributed historical background through contextual essays. The collection includes rare books and newspapers, personal accounts, diaries, correspondence, shipping papers, travel posters, historic maps, artwork, and images of material objects among others. Sourced from historical societies, museums, and libraries.

Features selected primary sources on China’s relationship with the West dating back to the earliest English embassy and covering most of the 20th century. Essays by recognized scholars put the ensemble of primary sources in its historical context. The collection includes rare books, personal accounts, correspondence, maps, photographs, and illustrations among others. Sourced from the collections at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library and seven other libraries and archives.

Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1860-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Features access to digital copies of selected US newspapers from from 1789 to 1963.

Provides access to a variety of publications, primary sources, and images documenting Christian philanthropy, social reform, and evangelization by the Church of England and native churches in the Anglican Communion globally from 1804 to 2009.

Provides access to Northern and Southern newspapers published during the American Civil War. Includes news coverage, eyewitness accounts, official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies, battlefield maps, and illustrations.

Presents weekly selections of Russian-language press materials, translated into English. Originally published under the title The Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991), followed by The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010), and now The Current Digest of the Russian Press.

Offers the complete archive of the Daily Worker, which was the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) between 1924 and 1958.

Provides a gateway to digital copies of the Library of Congress's vast resources of historical records. Examples include various presidential papers collections, photographs, baseball cards, scores and musical recordings, newspapers, magazines, and personal narratives such as those collected from former enslaved people through the Federal Writers' Project.

Presents digital color copies of Ebony magazine issues from November 1959 to December 2008.

Presents digital copies of Ebony magazine issues from November 1945 to December 1961. The digital copies were created from microfilm copies.

Features journals and newspapers published between 1685 and 1815 in England, Scotland, Ireland, Jamaica, and British India. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion, political debates, and London coffee house gossip.

Offers access to the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. While most of the content is in English, some content in non-English languages is included. Coverage for most newspapers and magazines goes back to the early 1990s, but earlier content is also available.

Features full text translations of foreign radio and television broadcasts as well as foreign newspapers, periodical articles, and government statements selected by the C.I.A. for distribution to U.S. policymakers and security analysts.
Partially funded with a gift from Allen Cellar, '69 CLAS.

Offers free access to the complete digital archive of one of the leading African American opinion magazines. Founded by Louis Burnham, Edward Strong, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Shirley Graham Du Bois. Chronicled the American civil rights movement and Pan-Africanism. Published from 1961 to 1985.

Provides a cross-searching platform for locally available Gale primary source collections: Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century US Newspapers; 19th Century UK Periodicals; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; The Making of the Modern World; Sabin Americana; U.S. Declassified Documents Online.

Features digital copies of primary sources held by the Bibiliothèque Nationale de France. Sources include books, newspapers and magazines, manuscripts, sound recordings and images. The newspaper files include archives for Le Figaro, Le Temps, L'Humanité, and Le Petit Parisien among others.

Provides access to primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. Offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Provides access to over 2,000 digitized clippings from The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia's leading newspaper for much of the twentieth century. The clippings range from 1917-1979.

Provides access to over 70,000 digitized images from The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia's leading newspaper for much of the twentieth century. The images range from 1928-1981.

Features digital copies of books, pamphlets and periodicals related to women's history in general and the movement for women's rights in particular. Coverage is international and extends from the middle of the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century.

Features digitized newspaper archives from around the world. Available collections include Moscow News (1930-2014), Imperial Russian Newspapers (1782-1917), Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers (1807-1929), Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers (1870-1972), Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (1911-1949), and Southeast Asian Newspapers (1831-1958). Note that many newspapers in this collection do not use the Latin alphabet. In some cases alternative keyboards are provided to facilitate research. Except for the Moscow News archive, all collections are open access courtesy of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Villanova University has permanent access to the Moscow News archive.

Features historic Mexican and Mexican American news sources published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora (Mexico) from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.

Offers full text access to the archives of a selection of newspapers available on the ProQuest platform: the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‎, and the major African American newspapers of the 20th century, including the Chicago Defender. Coverage varies.

Provides links to historical U.S. newspapers that are freely available on the internet; organized by state, then city.

Presents the archives of selected Russian newspapers spanning the years 1782 to 1917. Most of the digitized papers are from Moscow and St. Petersburg but some regional titles are also included. The search interface features a transliteration table and a Russian keyboard to facilitate discovery. A bibliography of all newspapers published in Imperial Russia will eventually be added. Open access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries, its member institutions, and the National Library of Russia.

Features nearly 1,000 newspapers from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods (1807-1929). The newspapers are predominantly in Spanish but a few French, English, and German language titles are also included. While holdings for many of the newspapers featured in this collection are available only in short runs, the titles are often unique and, in many cases, represent the only existing record of a newspaper’s short-lived publication. Digitized based on archival newspaper holdings of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection (University of Texas at Austin). Open access is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

Offers digital access to alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Available titles include The Free State, The Irish Felon, The Irish People, The Irish Tribune, The Irish Worker and People's Advocate, The Irishman, The United Irishman, and The Waterford Chronicle.

Titles available include: An-Phoblacht/The Republic, Belfast News-letter, Dublin News, Evening Freeman, Evening Telegraph, Freeman's Journal, Irish Freedom, Irish Times, Irish Tribune, Irishman, Pilot, The Peasant, United Irishman, and The Weekly Nation.

Presents a complete archive of the Irish Times back to 1859 (except for the most recent two years) and the Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958).

Offers digital access to the archive of one of the longest running Russian newspapers. The archive covers the Soviet era in its entirety as well as the collapse of the Union and the Russian Federation. Yearly updates are added in the spring of the following year.

Features nearly 300 Chinese newspapers spanning the period from 1911 to 1949. The collection should be explored through browsing as it lacks a Chinese character keyboard. Search results are limited to ads and names that use the Roman alphabet. Newspapers from more than 20 major cities are included covering most regions of mainland China. Open access is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

Now Nexis Uni. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.

Provides full text access to the most influential LGBT+ news resources including The Advocate (full coverage from its inception in 1967), The Pink Paper, Just for Us, The Albatross, and the notable UK publications Gay News and Gay Times.

Provides coverage of the essential works and archival documents of the global LGBTQ+ movement. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present and includes archival content in the form of text, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.

Provides access to digital copies of books, serials, and various other works of economic literature published between 1450 and 1850. Presents critical primary sources on European economic history including economic theory, imperialism, wealth creation, and trade. Most of the titles are in English but works in other European languages are also included.

Provides free access to a library of Marxist thought with works from more than 850 different authors representing the width and depth of Marxist thinking worldwide. English language texts and English translations constitute the bulk of the archive besides sources in a wide range of other languages. Included are the works of famous Marxist thinkers and practitioners, selected works of contemporary champions, as well as influential works that predate Marx and Engels. Important English translations of the works of Marx and Engels are not part of the archive because of copyright restrictions but selected works are included. The Villanova community has access to the translated works of Marx and Engels through Past Masters, the print volumes of the complete works editions, and the open access MEW edition. The archive also offers selected articles and/or the complete archives of numerous socialist and communist newspapers and magazines mostly in English, German, and Russian including the Rheinische Zeitung, the Black Panther, the Daily Worker, GI Voice, Kronstadt Izvestiia, and the New Masses to give just a few examples.

Provides primary resources on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the war front line. Includes access to hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts.

Features archives of selected Middle Eastern and North African newspapers spanning from the second half of the 19th century to the early 20th century. Most newspapers are written in Arabic but a few English, French, and bilingual editions are included. Over a third of the titles are from Syria. Lebanese newspapers are also strongly represented. The remaining titles are from Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Palestine. Most of the collection consists of out-of-copyright, orphaned content, but five subscription titles, which are not available to the Villanova community, are also included. Use the Arabic keyboard to enter search terms in Arabic. Search results appear in image and text format. Open access is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

Features the longest running English-language newspaper in Russia, published from 1930 to 2014. Once the mouthpiece of the Communist party, it later advocated for social and political change. The digital archive includes all available issues of the paper including those of its short-lived sister publication, the Moscow Daily News (1932-1938).

Provides free access to the complete digital archive. Published from 1961 to 1975 as the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam. Claimed to be most widely read newspaper ever produced by an African American organization.

Provides full text access to the complete New York Times archive except for the most recent five years. Use NYTimes.com, Nexis Uni, or ABI/INFORM for access to current content.

Lists newspapers held by the National Library of Ireland. Includes Irish newspapers published abroad. Use WorldCat to identify U.S. holdings.

Introduces tools and strategies for working with historical and current newspapers and magazines. Includes an A-Z list of newspaper & magazine archives.

Provides full text access to an array of major 19th-century American newspapers, regional newspapers, illustrated papers, and those published by groups and interests such as African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.

Features digital access to a selection of 19th century British magazines on women, children, leisure and sport, humor, anthropology, travel, missionaries, and colonies.

Identifies and links to selected online magazine archives worldwide.

Identifies and links to selected online newspaper archives worldwide.

Features electronic archives for selected journals of opinion, including Commonweal, Dissent, The New Leader, The Progressive, Orion, American Spectator and The Weekly Standard.

Full-text transcription and digitized image of the actual newspaper page as it originally appeared.

Offers full text access to a small collection of 19th century Delaware County newspapers.

Provides full text access to the complete Philadelphia Inquirer archive up to 2009: the Philadelphia Inquirer (1860-1934), the Philadelphia Inquirer Public Ledger (1934-1969), and the Philadelphia Inquirer (1969-2009). Use Philadelphia Inquirer (NewsBank) for access to current content.

Provides full-text access to the complete archive up to 2008.

Documents American and British popular culture with digital copies of advertisements, catalogs, clippings, fanzines, memorabilia, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, posters, books, and video clips, to name just a few of the types of sources included in this collection. Sources are assigned to one or more of 21 thematic areas which cover all aspects of popular culture from 1950 to 1975 among them the Vietnam War, civil rights and race relations, student activism, mass media, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, ecology and the environment, music, and fashion. Essays by expert in the field provide context together with a dictionary which introduces people and concepts. Sourced from a wide range of US and UK libraries and archives, this visually rich collection can be explored by type, theme, and holding archive. Pdf files are available for all collection objects.

Presents digital archives of more than 100 newspapers, bulletins, and pamphlets covering a broad sweep of nationalist, republican, feminist, and socialist publications. Many of the newspapers and bulletins in the collection were short-lived and the archive may hold only a handful of issues.
Funded with support from the College of Arts & Sciences and the Irish Studies Program.

Provides indexing and selected full text for articles from general interest and popular magazines. Coverage begins in 1983; full text begins in 1994. Covers a broad range of popular subjects.

Provides indexing for articles from general interest and popular magazines. Covers 1890 through 1982. Covers a broad range of popular subjects.

Features digitized newspapers produced during the second world war and its immediate aftermath (1939-1948) by various service branches on both sides of the conflict. Encompasses newspapers from all the key theaters including publications in languages other than English. Newspaper profiles and essays by subject experts facilitate research. Images can be accessed separately through a gallery of front covers and a gallery of pin-ups and celebrities. Records can be filtered by unit origin, unit location, branch, theater, and library. Sourced from libraries, museums, and archives in the UK, US, New Zealand, and Germany.

Offers over a hundred newspapers published in Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam between 1831 and 1958. Most of these news publications were short-lived and the archive will then only include a few years’ worth of issues. The newspapers were produced in a range of Southeast Asian languages including Filipino, Indonesian, Javanese, Vietnamese, Khmer, and Thai. Newspapers in Arabic, French, English, Spanish, and Dutch make up a small part of the collection. A quick search for independence retrieves matches for various forms of the word such as the Spanish independencia and the French inédependance. Most of the newspapers in the archive can only be browsed as the search interface only permits searches for words using the Roman alphabet. Open access is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

Documents lives and events during the Great War (1914-1920s) with digital copies of primary sources from museums and archives worldwide in four thematic modules that focus on personal experience, propaganda and recruitment, the global conflict, and visual perspectives and narratives. Includes a wide variety of material types such as diaries and letters, newspapers and magazines, postcards and posters, official papers and ordinances, audio files and film clips, cartoons and aerial leaflets, maps and object, and photos and artwork. Records can be filtered by theater of war, document type, language, module, and library/archive. Essays by subject experts, case studies, and a glossary facilitate research. Image, object, and art galleries assist with access to visual sources. Pdf files are available for all collection objects.

This weekly newspaper was dedicated to Irish nationalism and to topics of interest to Irish-Americans. It was founded by Joseph McGarrity and published in Philadelphia from March 23, 1918 to May 6, 1922.

From the Villanova Digital library, scanned and searchable issues of the Villanovan and its predecessor, The Villanova Monthly

Provides a fully searchable facsimile of the Times of London from its inception through about five years ago. The Times is the world's oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication.

Provides access to all available issues of The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1838–1859), The Bombay Times and Standard (1860–1861), and The Times of India (1861–2010). Founded in 1838 to serve the British residents of West India, the collection offers searchable full text back to the first issues and includes full page and article PDFs. Earliest issues may vary in text clarity.

The Virginia Gazette was published weekly in Williamsburg from 1736-1780. The news covered all Virginia and included some information for other colonies, Scotland, England etc. Not all the issues survived, and some have surfaced since they were first reproduced on microfilm in the mid-twentieth century that is the basis for the digital version.

Provides access to the Wall Street Journal from 1889-2001. Current coverage for the Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition also available from Proquest and .com subscriptions.

Contains the full text of the Washington Post and its title variations from 1877 until seventeen years ago.

Permits free access to digital copies of a selection of German newspapers including complete runs of the three most important newspapers published in the former GDR.