Friday, December 21, 2012

Historical newspapers and primary documents

 
The Library of Congress has a beta site with several state newspapers (including from New York) available from 1900-1910. "Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

You can access the New York Times (1851 to the near present)--available through Proquest--if you are on campus at the high school. To access, from the HCHS home page, mouse over "library" and then then choose the "Proquest New York Times Historical" link.  

A collection of links to historical newspapers available free online.
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home/usa



The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1902) has been digitized by the Brooklyn Public Library and is available here:
eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org

Historical Newspapers from NORTHERN New York State:
http://news.nnyln.net/index.html 

Historical Newspapers from Suffolk County:
http://live-brary.com/historic-newspapers/

Freedom's Journal: The "first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. All 103 issues have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format."
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/


Queens, NY newspapers ON MICROFILM:


[Mid-Manhattan, Users at the microfilm viewers], Digital ID 1252841, New York Public Library


Two other places for newspaper links and information:
http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx
and
http://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/07/18/researching-and-finding-historical-newspapers-nypl


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Some additional historical periodical resources below, taken from : http://library.georgetown.edu/guides/19thcentury/#sources

http://www.harpweek.com/
A free Website archiving materials from Harper's Weekly on specific historical topics of the nineteenth century, superbly organized for educational purposes (for research and for teaching primary historical and cultural research to secondary and post-secondary students). Current highlighted collections include Black America; the impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Civil War literature; presidential elections 1860-1884 (including the electoral college issue in the 1876 election); immigrant and ethnic America; the editorial cartoons of Thomas Nast; the American West; and 19th-century advertising. Each topic is introduced with contemporary scholarship.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.


http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

http://www.uvm.edu/%7Ehag/godey/index.html
This important journal included fashion plates as well as poems, fiction, editorials, literary notices, fashion and needlework patterns, and advice articles. Both websites listed include illustrations.