{"id":67,"date":"2021-02-01T18:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2023-05-04T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:16:58","slug":"primary-sources-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/primary-sources-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary sources: newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primary sources will provide you with the raw material to analyse and interpret the topic you are researching.<\/p>\n<p>We subscribe to many newspapers, from the United States, the UK, and elsewhere. They are available in a variety of formats, including print and online. Visit the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/resources\/news\/index.html\">news resources pages<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for full information and access to online holdings.<\/p>\n<h2>American newspapers \u2013 historic<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go-gale-com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/ps\/start.do?p=GDCS&amp;fromProdId=GDCS&amp;userGroupName=uokent\"><strong>Gale Primary Sources<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>search across 18 primary source databases from Gale with a single search box, including historical, newspaper and periodical archives.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/americanperiodicals?accountid=7408\">American Periodicals<\/a><\/strong> (from ProQuest): database of periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children\u2019s and women\u2019s magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/infotrac.galegroup.com\/itw\/infomark\/111\/1\/1\/purl=rc6_NCNP?sw_aep=uokent\">19th Century U.S. Newspapers<\/a> <\/strong>(from Gale): primary source newspaper content from the 19th century featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S., covering topics like the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/chroniclingamerica\">Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/a><\/strong>: excellent free website maintained by the Library of Congress. Search hundreds of full text newspapers from 1860-1922. Site also has information about American newspapers from 1690 onwards.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/hnplatimes?accountid=7408\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> <\/strong>(from ProQuest): full text and PDFs of this newspaper from 1881-1992.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/search-proquest-com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/hnpnewyorktimes\">The New York Times (1851-2009) with Index (1851-1993)<\/a><\/strong>(from ProQuest Historical Newspapers): access to over 150 years of American news, world news, and personal stories from the newspaper known for providing \u201call the news that\u2019s fit to print\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>American newspapers \u2013 current<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>American newspapers are included under\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/resources\/news\/index.html?tab=international-newspapers\">international newspapers<\/a><\/strong>. Articles from many US newspapers are available through\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/advance.lexis.com\/?federationidp=SDCXFP59444\">Nexis<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary sources will provide you with the raw material to analyse and interpret the topic you are researching. We subscribe to many newspapers, from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/primary-sources-newspapers\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68598,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/american-studies-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}