LibGuides: HIST 3692: Anarchism: A Global History: Newspapers and Magazines

Using the Catalog to Find Newspapers and Magazines: Strategies

To find newspapers, magazines, and journals relevant to anarchist history and anarchist studies, in a range of formats (print, digital, microform), you can start with a catalog search.

In CLIO Catalog (for locally available sources):

Start by entering keywords into the search box. You may wish to begin, for instance, with anarchism periodicals, selecting Subject in the right-hand drop down menu.
Use the facet boxes on the left of the results page to narrow down search results; for instance, by Language, or by Subject (Region).

In WorldCat (for sources you may wish to request from other libraries, or visit other collections to find, or even digital sources):

Enter keywords into the provided search boxes. Here, again, you may try anarchism periodicals, selecting Subject in the right-hand drop down menu.
On the results page, click the Serials tab to look at periodicals (by title) and to find out which libraries might hold copies.

To find out if a journal, magazine, or newspaper might be indexed in a database, try searching it by title in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

Historical Newspaper & Magazine Collections

19th century British Library newspapers
Searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth-century Britain. This collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as newspapers from: established country or university towns; the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands; and Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. Penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included.
Africa's Historical Newspapers
Africa's historical newspapers provides full-text access to historical newspapers from Africa. Includes African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1800-1925 as well as African newspapers--The British Library Collection, 1821-1900, offering coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the continent during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Algeria to Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, this resource chronicles the evolution of Africa through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items. Also included is the Rand Daily Mail, 1902-1985 -- a 20th century newspaper containing unique perspectives on South Africa and the African continent, with deep coverage of the era of apartheid.
African American Historical Serials Collection
The African American Historical Serials Collection includes African American periodicals, annuals and reports published from 1829-1922 including materials from African American religious organizations and social service agencies.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Covers life in the Antebellum South through the Civil Rights movement and more. Based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
African American periodicals, 1825-1995 enables users to search many periodicals by and about African Americans. The collection is based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998). Drawn from holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society, African American Periodicals ranges over more than 150 years of American life, from slavery during the Antebellum Period to the modern era. Includes the Black Panther Party newspaper.
Alt-PressWatch
Full text database of selected newspapers, magazines, journals of the alternative and independent press. Includes titles such as Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Chicago Reader, Dissent, Off Our Backs, Poverty and Race.
Alternative Press Index
More than 300 alternative, radical, and left journals, newspapers, and magazines and includes selected abstracts from research journals. Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.
Alternative Press Index Archive
Comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information published from 1969-1990. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals,
American Indian Newspapers
Presents the publications of a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and British Columbia, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date.
Gale News Vault
alllows you to simultaneously search or browse across multiple historical UK and US based news sources including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series II: Empire; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers; Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2006; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005.

Hemeroteca Digital
offers access to full color digitized historic newspapers and magazines, from Spain as well as a smaller selection of sources from Latin America, with well over 1000 titles in the collection. You can search the full text of these periodicals, or you can browse them by topic and title words. Coverage extends from the late 17th to the late 20th century.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century.
Historical Black Newspapers
Full text and full-image articles from African American newspapers: Atlanta daily world, Los Angeles sentinel, New York Amsterdam news, Pittsburgh courier, The Chicago defender and more..
Independent Voices
An ongoing project to digitize over 1 million pages from the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative press archives of participating libraries. Includes feminist journals, the GI press, small literary magazines, underground newspapers, LGBT periodicals, the minority press (Latino, Black and Native American), and the extreme right-wing press. Coverage spans the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Left Index
A complete guide to the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship both inside and outside academia. Other topics covered include the labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law and globalization. Includes both scholarly and popular sources.
Nexis Uni
An interdisciplinary, full-text database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Full-text and full-image articles from major American newspapers: Atlanta Constitution, Baltimore Sun (1837-1985), Boston Globe, Call and Post (1934-1991), Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor (1908-1997), Irish Times (1859-2009), Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Scotsman (1817-1950). Every page in PDF files.
World Newspaper Archive
Searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the world,with Latin American ,African, European, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries.

HIST 3692: Anarchism: A Global History

Vani Natarajan

Jennie Correia, Social Sciences Librarian

Using the Catalog to Find Newspapers and Magazines: Strategies

Historical Newspaper & Magazine Collections