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History Department

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Contact information:
Paul Rascoe
PCL 2.402E
prascoe@mail.utexas.edu
(512) 495-4262

HOW TO FIND NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL ARTICLES


  • type in keyword(s) for your topic in the databases or search the bibliographies listed below
  • if your article is full-text on-line in the database you can print, download, or e-mail the article (note: not all databases allow e-mailing)
  • if you only get the citation (author, title of article, journal title) and summary from the database, index or bibliography:
    • Click on the 'Find it @ UT' button, to see if the article is available in another database or available in paper format.

      OR

    • If there is no 'Find it @ UT' button, copy the source of your article, i.e. journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, author and title of the article. Then go to the Library Catalog and type in the title of the journal to check if UT owns the journal (DO NOT TYPE in the title or author of the article.

Selected Print and Online Databases, Indexes, and Bibliographies

Please note:

For a complete listing, see Databases and Indexes to Articles

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
1827-1902
Provides searchable full-text access to the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

Alt-Press Watch
1990s-current
Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press in America. Includes a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, such as ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, and public policy.

America: History and Life
1964-current
Contains citations with abstracts to social scienceand humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present. Coversbooks, book reviews, journals and dissertations. Also reviews films and video projects. It is also possible to search America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts simultaneously.

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (CWLD)
1855-1875
Updated regularly (until completed). Includes approximately 100,000 pages of published memoirs, letters and diaries from individuals plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, the collection provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of the war. More than 1,000 biographies will enhance the use of the database.

American Periodical Series
1741-1900
Contains 1000 magazines published between 1741 and 1900. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine , the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair , Harper's Magazine , and Ladies' Home Journal.

American State Papers
1789-1838
Full text online collection of the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The collection includes documents that cover the critical historical gap from 1789 to the printing of the first volume of the U.S. Serial Set in 1817.

America's Historical Newspapers
1690-1922
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.

C.R.I.S. : the Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974.
D 1 C1747 v. 1-11 PCL Reference

ArchivesUSA
Directory of archives and manuscript collections in the United States with descriptions of a repository's holdings.

Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
1860-1865
Full searchable text with images.

Dallas Morning News 1885-1977
Full searchable text with images.

Early American Imprints
1639-1800
Includes every nonserial item listed in Evans (Catalogue of Early American imprints, first series, 1639-1800). An additional 1100 titles from Bristol's supplement to Evans are also included.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
1701-1800
ECCO contains 150,000 books published in the United Kingdom and the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide.

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online
1543 - 1945
An online collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. Includes publications from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand.

HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly)
1857-1912
Provides electronic access to all issues of Harper's Weekly published between 1857 and 1912. Includes both search and browse capabilities. HarpWeek is designed for Netscape Navigator 3.x or above OR Internet Explorer 3.x or above at 800 X 600 screen resolution with Java, JavaScript and Cookies enabled. Printing pages (which are large -- the original size is 11" x 15.5") can best be accomplished by downloading the page to disk, then opening the page in an image-manipulation program.

HeritageQuest
Contains local history monographs for all 50 states, as well as Canada, England, and Ireland. Also includes the complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930. Search by title, family name, geographic area, or subject.

Historical Abstracts
1969-present
Contains citations and abstracts of worldwide literature (excluding the United States and Canada) from approximately 2,100 journals and since 1980, books and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history and related areas of the social sciences and humanities. Covers history dating from 1450 to the present. It is also possible to search Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life simultaneously.

Historical Statistics of the United States
Colonial times - ca. 2000. (Cambridge University Press)
Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present.

History Cooperative
Full text of the Journal of American History and the American Historical Review as well as several other important history journals.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Updated annually. Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science and technology and allied historical fields.

International Index to Black Periodicals
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations andabstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers andnewsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean with full textcoverage for 40 of these titles

International Medieval Bibliography Online (IMB)
1967 - present. (Brepols Publishers)
Provides a current bibliography for over 4,500 journals (as well as conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften, and exhibition catalogs) used for research and teaching on the Middle Ages (c. 400-1500).
To access the database, choose the "Enter databases" button and then the "GO" button.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
400-1700 (University of Toronto)
Updated periodically. Provides bibliographic access to published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Los Angeles Times
1881 - December 31, 1985
Full searchable text with images.

New York Times
1851 - December 31, 2004
Full searchable text with images.

Medieval Feminist Index - Web Access
1994-1997 (Haverford College)
Updated periodically. Covers over 350 international journals as well as book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.). Subject coverage for gender and sexuality means that articles on masculinity and male homosexuality are included.

Medieval and Renaissance Databases (UT Austin users)

19th Century Masterfile
1802-1903
An online "index of indexes" including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), The Psychological Index (1894-1905), Index to Periodicals (1890-1906), Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899), Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899), Catalog of Scientific Papers--Mechanics, Physics, Mathematics, Catalog of Scientific Papers, Fourth Series, 1884-1900, Royal Society of London, Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922), America: History and Life, Swem's Virginia Index 1619-1930. ALA Guide to General Literature, 19th Century Monograph Records, 19th Century Periodical Records, Wright American Fiction II (1851-1875), ALA Portrait Index, 1906, New York Times Index (1863-1905), New York Daily Tribune Index (1875-1906), Palmer's Index to the Times (London) (1880-1890), Index to the Oregon Spectator (1846-1854), and Periodical Indexes with Full Text Links from the Making of America web site at Cornell.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
1800-1900
Full searchable text with images of 500 U.S. newspapers (individual dates of coverage vary).

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
1840-1950
Includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
1700-1950
Includes diaries, journals, and letters written by women visiting or living in North America between the years 1700 and 1950.

PAIS International
1972-present (FirstSearch)
Bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Topics covered include economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. The database covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche. More than 1,600 journals and over 8,000 monographs are indexed each year. Coverage includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The subject headings and abstracts are in English.

Periodicals Archive Online
1770-1995 (Chadwyck-Healey)
Indexes over 10.75 million articles in 3,142 journals. The scope is international and multi-disciplinary, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Includes full image of 100 journals and the archive will continue to grow by this amount each year.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
1890-1982 (Wilson)
Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Covers more than 375 titles.

Sabin Americana
1500-1926
Contains more than 14,000 primary source titles based on Joseph Sabin's bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana. Materials describe every aspect of life in the Western Hemisphere from 1500 to the 1890s. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents.

Times Digital Archive
1789-1985
Online archive of The Times (London).

U.S. Congressional Serial Set
1817-1926
This database will include Congressional Serial Set volumes through 1980 when this online project is completed.

Washington Post
1877 - December 31, 1990
Full searchable text with images.

Web of Science
1989-present
Updated weekly. Provides web access to all three ISI citation indexes -- Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index. Covers more than 8,400 journals.

Women and Social Movements
1600 - 2000. (Alexander Street Press)
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. A resource for the teaching the history of women in the United States. Consists of 74 editorial projects with more than 2200 primary documents.