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ProQuest Historical Newspapers database offers full-text access to past issues of Baltimore's pre-eminent African American newspaper. The Afro-American succeeded the Home Protector (1889) and documents vignettes of daily life in Baltimore's African-American community and issues of national interest. See more about this paper from the Library of Congress.
Established as The Afro-American and then merged with The Ledger in 1900. Succeeding title is Afro-American Ledger 1900-1915, and then reverted back to its original title. Published Weekly. Full-text search only - browse not available. Google Newspaper Archive Provides intermittent access to digital facsimiles of the newspaper to facilitate browse by data and issue. Full-text search available with limited functionality, browse available for extant issues. May 11, 1974 (vol. 82, No. 78) issue misprinted as "May 11, 1794" and appears in Google Archive as 1794.
Published Daily. Intermittent coverage. This paper is most useful for the extensive advertisements and commodity prices for the 19th century. First page or so has current events, politics and other news. Complete publication range goes back to 1800. See more about these papers at the Library of Congress.
Published daily. Intermittent coverage. Title changes to "The Bee" in 1876. Complete publishing range 1875-1878. This title was assumed y the Baltimore Morning Herald. See more about this paper from the Library of Congress. Separate entry HERE for "The Bee."
Published daily. Intermittent coverage. Browse by date with limited search functionality.
Published weekly. Sunday edition of the "Baltimore Morning Herald" Intermittent coverage. Browse by date with limited search functionality.
This database offers full-text access to past issues of the Baltimore Sun, the largest circulating newspaper in Maryland. The Baltimore Sun was previously known as "The Sun" from 1837 to 2008. Full-text search only- no browse not available. See more about this paper from the Library of Congress.
Published weekly. Intermittent coverage for two months in 1901. Complete publishing span from 1900 to 1904.
Easton, Talbot, Maryland. Intermittent coverage form May 1790 to August 1799 November and December 1799 bears the title "Eastern Shore Intelligence." Weekly. Contains national and local news, together with reports from other states and international informants. Advertisements illustrate the pace and tenor of daily life in the early Republic. Browse by date with limited search functionality. See more about this paper from the Library of Congress.
Easton, Talbot, Maryland. Intermittent coverage from January 1800 to November 1804. Nov and Dec 1799 appear under title above. Weekly. Contains national and local news, together with reports from other states and international informants. Advertisements illustrate the pace and tenor of daily life in the early Republic. Browse by date with limited search functionality. See more about this paper from the Library of Congress.
See HERE for a complete list of newspapers published in Maryland and indexed by the Library of Congress. Most of these titles are not online and available only through local Archives.
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The Middle Eastern & North African Newspapers collection includes publications from across the Arab world issued 1870-2018, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century to the present. Researchers will find a wealth of unique content from the Middle East and North Africa, much of which has never been digitized or available as open access material. Key topics include the decline of colonialism, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Suez Crisis, the Cold War, the rise of the petroleum industry, twentieth-century pan-Arab movements, both World Wars, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Iran-Iraq War, and the recent Arab Spring.
Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
The Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers collection provides perspectives on the terminal imperial and early republican periods in Chinese history (1912-1949), and provides access to the press of more than twenty mainland. The collection provides researchers a richly comprehensive perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics spanning a half century from the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the foundation of the People’s Republic.
Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
Over 1,000 titles in the Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection trace the evolution of Mexico from 1807-1929. The newspapers in this collection provide rare documentation of the events of this era and including coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news. Many of the newspapers in this collection were short-lived and available only in very short runs, but the titles are often unique and, in many cases, represent the only existing record of a newspaper’s publication.
Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection chronicles 136 years of Russian history from 1782 to 1918 and contains 19 titles primarily from Moscow and St. Petersburg, together with several regional newspapers.
Additional reference resources include two bibliographic collections of all known newspapers published in Imperial Russia and dozens of contemporaneous (mostly nineteenth century) reference works offering detailed subject bibliographies of the articles appearing in the specific newspapers of the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection.
The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection was made possible thanks to the active support of the National Library of Russia. Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.
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