History: Primary Sources for Student Projects

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

Research diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with curricular areas such as Political Science, English, Sociology, Humanities, Business, International Studies and more. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national, and local news sources.

Alternative Press Index retrieves citations and abstracts from nearly 300 alternative periodicals, newspapers and magazines since 1991.

Alternative Press Index Archive retrieves citations and abstracts from nearly 300 alternative periodicals, newspapers and magazines from 1969 - 1990.

Primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

Here are articles from 160+ Colorado newspapers in digital form, dating 1859-1923 from 23 cities and 18 counties, courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society. Selected titles, including the camp newspapers of the 10th Mountain Division, have coverage after 1923.

The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1976 to today.

The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 2010 to today.

One of the darker chapters in American history and one of the lesser discussed events of World War II was the forced internment, during the war, of an important segment of the American population-persons of Japanese descent. This collection, consisting of 25 individual titles, documents life in the internment camps.

The Observer was a weekly newspaper published by the Command Information Division of the U.S. Military Assistance Command’s Office of Information. It was the official organ of the Military Assistance Command, and it carried official news about and for American troops in Vietnam. It was carefully edited to make certain it did not print news articles favorable to the communist enemy. The Military Assistance Command spread more than 80,000 weekly Observers among all points in Vietnam in which American troops were domiciled.