The following sources are regional or special interest publications, newspapers serving ethnic or linguistic minorities, or groups outside the mainstream. Coverage can be historical or current.
Created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States, viz., those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society, and the Library of Congress.
Includes leading black newspapers of the United States.
Includes:
• Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
• Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
• Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
• Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
• Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
• Michigan Chronicle (1936-2010)
• New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
• Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Includes many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century. Based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” a national research project.
This English language Zionist periodical (1904-1941) is an important source of knowledge about the Shanghai Jewish community in the years predating the establishment of the Jewish state and the role Jews of the time played in politics, science, and international trade.
Digital archive of articles published by interned Japanese-Americans between 1942 and 1945.
Offers rare first-person accounts and seldom-heard voices. It contains 24,838 pages of articles published by interned Japanese-Americans between 1942 and 1945.
The 25 newspapers presented here are sourced from the Library of Congress. Many of the titles in this archive are complete or substantially complete. Editions have been carefully collated and omissions are noted. Although articles in these files frequently appear in Japanese, most of the papers are in English.
Local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations, by sympathetic publishers, and by Klan opponents 1921-1932.
From its birth immediately following the Civil War to its re-awakening inspired by the film Birth of a Nation in 1915 through today’s fractured organizations using the Klan’s name, the Ku Klux Klan has occupied a persistent place in American society. At its peak in 1924, Klan-paid membership exceeded 4,000,000 and its national newspaper, the Imperial Night-Hawk, had a circulation larger than the New York Times.
