AFROAMER/GEN&WS 625: Gender, Race, & Civil Rights (Spring 2024) : Articles
Newspapers
While the impact of a daily, printed newspaper has changed drastically, newspapers have long been a main pillar of information for a very wide audience. Listed below are several places to access African American newspapers, these newspapers were largely written by and for the Black community.
For more places to find newspapers, see the Newspapers Research Guide.
- African American NewspapersFull text searchable newspaper coverage of approximately 270 U.S newspapers documenting the African American experience in America from 1827-1998
- ProQuest Black Historical Newspapers
The newspapers listed above can either be searched individually by clicking on the link above. If you'd like to search across all titles, first click into any of the links. Then, locate the "change databases" button and click it:
Next, scroll through the list of databases and select the newspaper titles you would like to search:
Click "use selected databases," and you're ready to search through multiple newspapers at once.
Other periodicals - magazines, newsletters, etc
Below are several databases that contain writings from a variety of magazines, leaflets, and newsletters.
- African American Periodicals (1825-1995)African-American Periodicals contains fully searchable content from 174 titles published by African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. These include academic titles, as well as commercial magazines, institutional bulletins, annual reports, and other genres, including many short-lived publications not found in any libraries beyond the Wisconsin Historical Society.
- American Race Relations : Global Perspectives, 1941-1996Collection of translated newspapers, magazines, government statements, and radio and television broadcasts from around the world on American race relations, dating from the early 1940s to 1996.
- Black Thought & CultureThis collection contains approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings from the past 250 years by over 1,000 American black leaders, including artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, and entertainers. Black Thought and Culture offers access to previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts.
On This Page
This page offers guidance on finding newspapers, magazines, and other kinds of primary source articles.
Wisconsin Historical Society Library Newspapers Collections
The Wisconsin Historical Society Library owns 11,740 bound volumes, 100,000 reels of microfilm, and 17,000 sheets of microprint spanning three centuries of American newspaper history. Particular strengths include Wisconsin newspapers, colonial and early American newspapers west of the Appalachians, and the largest collection of labor and trade union papers in the nation.
The Library's holdings of 1960s "underground" or alternative newspapers are also extensive. Other areas of the collection that have attained national importance are Native American and African-American newspapers. Among rarities in the newspaper collection are the first African-American and Native American newspapers and the first Bohemian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Spanish language newspapers published in the United States.
To discover if the library owns a particular title, search the Library Catalog. Also see the Library Catalog box on this page.
More information about the Newspaper Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library.
Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles are typically a very important part of a research project. To find appropriate articles for your assignments try the following databases.
- American History and LifeIndexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. Links to full-text articles are included when available.
- Academic SearchA multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are indexed and abstracted.