For searching and browsing American newspapers published in three centuries, America's Historical Newspapers is the most comprehensive online resource available. Continually expanding, it offers searchable digital facsimiles of thousands of titles from all 50 states. With eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries and much more, this acclaimed collection uniquely chronicles the evolution of American culture and daily life from 1690 to the recent past.
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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes papers from more than 35 states, features many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles.
Features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans andcan be cross-searched with African American Newspapers, Afro-Americana Imprints and other Archive of Americana collections. Publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
1909-2010
Full-text of the Defender is provided through the Black Studies Center, a gateway to primary source material. Use the NEWSPAPERS link to browse the paper chronologically.
1909-2010
Full-text of the Daily Defender is provided through the Black Studies Center, a gateway to primary source material. Use the NEWSPAPERS link to browse the paper chronologically.
1882-present
The online archive of The Hyde Park Herald provides a searchable history of the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. To see 2010-present
Newspaper titles which have been inventoried and cataloged by both the Down-State Illinois Newspaper Project, located at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the Chicago Illinois Newspaper Project, housed at the Chicago Historical Society.
From the Library of Congress. This directory of newspapers published in the United States since 1690 can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them. Use the options below to select a particular place and time, using keywords to locate specific titles.
ProQuest Digital Microfilm offers full-text articles of newspapers digitized from microfilm. It includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street journal, Washington Post, New York Times, American Banker, Barron's Boston Globe and USA Today. Coverage for most papers goes back to 2008 and up to about 2-3 months ago.
Chicago's NPR-affiliate. WBEZ-News and WBEZ-Newscasts may be good sources for local news coverage among the programs included on this list. The On Background podcast focuses on politics and has episodes on the 2019 mayoral candidates.
Chicago's PBS TV station. Among many programs is Chicago Tonight, a public-affairs series airing Monday through Thursday each week with features on Chicago life and panels discussing various topics.
This post on the Considered Sources blog provides descriptive listing of Chicago's mainstream and alternative media, broadcast/podcasts, In-depth sources and reports/studies/books about Chicago issues.
"We are a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) neighborhood news site, covering news all around Chicago. We are a subscription-based site, but a lot of our content, including breaking crime news, is free." -- from the site FAQ
NBCs Meet the Press is broadcast-televisions longest-running program, with interviews, panels and debates from across the political spectrum. The collection includes streaming video of every surviving program from the shows inception in 1947 through the present day.
Search the Vanderbilt Television News Archive of network television news programs and other news-related programming recorded since August 5, 1968. Streaming video of NBC and CNN content is available. The Archive makes all the items in its collection available to the public through a loan service. See a librarian for more information.
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