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:
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.
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