Primary Resources

The contents of the New York Times from 1851 to 2007. Individual articles and entire pages of the paper can be viewed, printed and saved as PDF files.

Extensive collection spanning its very first issue in 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive format.

A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers that promotes itself as a one-of-a-kind record of African American history and culture. The oldest newspaper dates to 1842.

Published since 1857, The Atlantic is one of the nation's oldest monthly magazines covering major issues in politics, foreign affairs, the economy, and cultural trends.

Complete digital version of the Businessweek backfile, with coverage starting at the magazine’s first issue in 1929 and ending in 2000.

This keyword searchable directory provides individual links to over 200 online Catholic newspapers.

Historical newspaper that provides first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events from 1909-1975.

This collection is the digital archive of Commonweal. Content dates back to 1924.

An archive of magazines in the field of education, ranging from 1910-2015. The publications are aimed at teachers and other educational professionals and constitute valuable primary sources through which the evolution of educational policy, practice, and theory during this period may be delineated and interpreted. This content also pertains strongly to several related fields such as social history, psychology, and childhood studies.

General interest magazine that explores perspectives on politics, society, culture, and the environment through essays, fiction, and reporting.

This resource provides an electronic index of the Harper's Weekly issues from 1857 to 1871. This period is characterized as the Civil War and the first phase of Reconstruction.

Contains a collection of U.S. newspapers, journals, and magazines published by the alternative press during the 1960s, '70s and '80s.

La Follette's Magazine began in 1909 as La Follette's Weekly Magazine. In 1929 it was replaced by The Progressive, which continues to publish today

The magazine's complete backfile containing thousands of historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, and poems.

Considered one of the country's leading journals of opinion on politics and the arts, this magazine features award-winning writers and critics from many fields and from most political viewpoints.

Weekly magazine offering a mix of reporting and commentary on politics, international affairs, popular culture and the arts, science and technology, and business, along with fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons.

Since 1909, The Progressive, a monthly magazine, has aimed to amplify voices of dissent and those under-represented in the mainstream, with a goal of championing grassroots progressive politics.

A searchable archive of magazines devoted to religious topics, spanning 19th-21st centuries, represented by a wide variety of religions and denominations.

Select listing of Ohio newspapers in Newspaper Source: Akron Beacon Journal, Toledo Blade, Columbus Dispatch, Dayton Daily News, Lima News, Middletown Journal, Youngstown Vindicator

Requires individual login and password set up. Access for UD faculty, staff, and students only.

Requires individual login and password set up. Access for UD faculty, staff, and students only.
Business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City.

This is a collection of 19th and 20th century newspapers from Africa. There are 66 titles available from a wide variety of countries throughout the continent. English is the most common publication language but others such as Portuguese and Xhosa are also available.

Includes publications from across the region, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present.

This collection provides researchers with six rare English-language journals, five of which were founded by Western missionaries in the Far East in the 19th century, covering a wide range of topics such as East-West communication, Christianity in China and other parts of Asia, and China’s political, economic, and cultural landscape. The collections cover journals starting in 1817 up to 1911.

Selected newspapers published in China during the transition from imperial rule to the establishment of the People’s Republic.

19th and 20th century South Asian newspapers. Contains more than 500,000 pages of content from 10 newspapers published throughout the subcontinent.

Includes publications from across the region, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present.

Contains full-text issues from 1785 to 2019 in its original published context.

The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

Contains more than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers featuring titles from Central and South America.

The Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection provides access to over 1,000 titles from Mexico's pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods.