Local newspapers provide insight into the social and cultural life of their communities. Several databases with historic American newspapers and journals are included below.
Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
Group of databases containing periodicals charting the history of the United States from 1691 to the latter half of the 19th century. Includes content on American society, industrialisation, science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women's fashion and family life, religion, Civil War, abolitionism, and recently-freed African Americans.
Searchable archive of the US (1867 to present) and UK (1930-2015) editions of Harper's Bazaar. The issues are reproduced as high-resolution colour page images and supported by fully searchable text and article-level indexing.
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
