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The Cornell University Library Making of America (MOA) Collection is a searchable digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Materials on the site include these magazines:
University of Michigan Making of America (MOA) Collection is a searchable digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Among the approximately 50,000 journal articles on the site are these magazines:
The On-Line Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania: Serials page lists many freely accessible archives of serials (such as magazines, journals,
newspapers, and other periodicals). It includes links to the titles in
the Making of America
sites, but
contains many other titles as well. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/serials.html Project Gutenberg’ Periodicals Bookshelf
offers scattered issues of plaintext of these US titles. The html
version
News
& Periodical Resources on the Web Resource list maintained
by
the Library of Congress and aggregators including Factiva, LexisNexis, Thomson Gale and HighBeam Research, offfering citations and some content free, with links to free and fee-based content.
Women Working:
Harvard University Libraries Open Collection Program
Godey's Lady's Book Online: The
Woman’s Advocate 1869-1870, New York. Full text, not in
original format. Woman’s
Era: African American clubwomen’s newspaper, edited by
Josephine St. P. Ruffin, and Florida R. Ridley. The American Jewess
(1895-1899) Monthly
edited by Rosa Sonneschein, from the Jewish Women's Archive. The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
has issues of The Woman Rebel, and
an overview of that paper. Covers from The Suffragist, from the 1910s. Remonstrance: Anti-suffrage periodical, 1911. A New England Girlhood by Lucy Larcom, contributor to The Lowell Offering, has a chapter on Mill Girls’ Magazines: A small number of articles from The Lowell Offering from Dierdre Johnson's syllabus Biographies of Women in Journalism Willa Cather's early journalism and magazine writings, from the University of Nebraska's Willa Cather Archive. Women in the News Business from the Library of Congress. Women's Editions of Daily Newspapers from the Library of Congress. GrrlZine Network The record of the Leslie Suffrage Commission, 1917-1929 Story of Miriam Florence Follin Leslie, wife of Frank Leslie, and benefactor to the women’s suffrage movement, from the Library of Congress American Memory project. Issues of the journal Feminist Periodicals, at the University of Wisconsin, which reprinted on a quarterly basis the tables of content pages of over 150 magazines and journals on women and gender published in English in the United States and abroad Gender and Editing: special issue of online magazine, Chain, mainly on small press magazines. Article: Gender and Avant-Garde Editing: Comparing the 1920s with the 1990s by Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller Article: "Cultural Critique and Consciousness Raising: Clara Bewick Colby's Woman's Tribune and Late-Nineteenth-Century Radical Feminism " by Kristin Mapel Bloomberg (scroll down) Article: on editor of Harper's Bazar: “'Her Very Handwriting Looks as If She Owned the Earth': Elizabeth Jordan and Editorial Power, " by June Howard Article: "When a Consumer Becomes an Editor: Susan Hayes Ward and the Poetry of The Independent" by Ingrid Satelmajer. Student paper: “The History of Women's Magazines: Magazines as Virtual Communities” by Tracy Seneca Chapter on Willa Cather's editing work at McClure's from James Woodress, Willa Cather: A Literary Life Revolution: Eighty Years and More by Elizabeth Cady Stanton has a chapter on editing the suffrage paper. Dime Novels for Women: American women's Dime Novel Project. Talk: An Uncommon Scold: Anne Newport Royall (1769-1854), editor of Paul Pry. Talk by Cynthia Earman on the Library of Congress site.
19th
Century Children and What They Read The expanding site
contains many individual stories and full issues of The Brownies' Book:
African American children's magazine (1920-21) started by W.E.B DuBois,
digitized on the 1929-1941, Bronx, NY. This magazine is from one of the largest high schools of the era, and published work by James Baldwin, Paddy Chayefsky, and Richard Avedon. Bittersweet. Magazine on Ozark culture, begun in 1973 at Lebanon High School, Missouri. St.
Nicholas tribute site, with history and some scans of the
magazine. the 1890s. Along with facsimiles of those poems and other material from the magazine, it contains an introduction to the YC and annotated tables of contents from issues in which the poems appeared. Horatio Alger Digital Repository: Stories from mail order papers dime magazines, and other periodical sources. Formatting is not preserved, but detailed publication information is provided. Northern Illinois U. Libraries. Campus
Newspapers on the Internet List maintained by Yahoo. Historical Campus
Newspapers: Cornell
Daily Sun Campus newspaper's scanned issues, 1880-1979. Illinois Institute of Technology Campus newspaper 1928-1980 Minnesota Daily: University of Minnesota campus paper, 1900-1999 Wisconsin
Literary Magazine: University of Wisconsin
student magazine, 1903-1928. Article: High
school press
of the 1970s. Site also has magazine New Youth
Connections , currently written by in their Reader's Everyday Life." In The International Journal of Urban Labour and Leisure, 1(1)
Anarchist publications from the late 19th and early
20th century, including covers of The Blast The Avatar Tables of contents, covers, and some articles from cult underground press periodical published in Boston 1967-1968. Cultural Correspondence 1975-83; leftist magazine. New Babylon Times and Green Mountain Post; 1960s-early 70s Massachusetts back-to-the-land magazines. Radical America 1967-87, more to come. George Seldes and the American Press Site promoting a film on Seldes has transcriptions of his journalism and links to articles on the alternative press in the US. Great Speckled Bird: website/exhibit on 1960s-70s Atlanta alternative paper. Silent Worker, 1888-1929. Popular national newspaper among the deaf population of the United States in the late 19th-early 20th century. Exhibit: Voices from the Underground. on 1960s underground press, from the University of Connecticut. Whole Earth Catalog content from many back issues. Article: A Youth in the Youth Culture by Steve Heller: Article about selling drawings to NY underground papers in the late 1960s. Bibliography: The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Our Own Voices: Lesbian and Gay Periodicals 1890s-2000s: bibliography of print materials. Article: on circulation of anarchist publications.
Alabama Arizona California Colorado Florida Georgia Georgia Digital Newspapers: Searchable issues of three Georgia newspapers, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Dublin Post, and the Colored Tribune and a late 19th century satirical student newspaper. The Countryman. Georgia weekly, 1862-66. Society: A journal devoted to society, art, literature, and fashion; Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-91. Southern Watchman Civil War issues of Athens, Georgia paper, 1860-65. Atlanta Journal Constitutin index only; 1868-1942.articles available for purchase or through Pro-Quest Historical Newspapers. Hawaii Hawaiian language newspapers, 19th and 20th century. Hawaiian-language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948. Illinois Illinois Periodicals Online: Searchable collection of several Illinois magazines. Illinois Newspapers: Quincy Historical Newspaper Project. Quincy Daily Whig and Quincy Daily Herald, 1835-1890; others being added. Barrington Review, 1914-1930. Flora Journal Record. Individual issues are searchable. Dziennik Zwiazkowy Polish-language newspaper, initial 10 years 1908-17. Indiana Muncie Post-Democrat Newspaper Collection 1921-50. Paper crusaded against the Ku Klux Klan.
Kansas Kentuckiana Digital Library Multiple newspapers; also access to journals Kentucky Negro Education Association Journal and Mountain Life and Work. Historic Kentucky Newspapers 35 newspapers, searcheable. Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index. 8 newspapers, searcheable. Louisiana The New Orleans Bee from September 1827 to December 1923,individual PDFs. Maine Index only to microfilm of Brunswick weekly newspapers, 1853-1960. Maryland Maryland State Records: Early Newspapers: allows page by page view of many mostly 19th century newspapers scanned from microfilm. Massachusetts Barnstable Patriot, Cape Cod and the Islands, 1830 to 1930 Provincetown Advocate covering 1918, 1931-1934 and 1936-1967. Minnesota Missouri New
Jersey
North
Carolina Chronicles of Oklahoma: 1923-1942. Oregon Oregon Newspaper Project., digitizing 3 newspapers. Pennsylvania Index only to the Philadelphia Press, 1898 through 1912. Articles can then be read on microfilm. Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers Large collection of Civil War-related newspapers, 1831-1877. Lancaster County Digitization Project Lancaster newspapers Columbia Spy and student newspapers, 19th century to 21st. Does not seem to be searchable. Nazareth Item, 1891 to 1975. Page images; does not seem to be searchable. Pittsburgh Post Gazette South Carolina New South Newspaper, published by the Union forces, searcheable, 1862-66. Utah Utah Digital Newspapers: Searchable collection of Utah newspapers. Virginia Richmond, Virginia Daily Dispatch, searchable, 1860-65. The Reflector: Charlottesville, VA African American newspaper 1933-35; selected articles and background.
Washington
Wisconsin Multiple
Localities Library of Congress Chronicling America
site has selected newspapers 1880-1910. and aggregators including Factiva, LexisNexis, Thomson Gale and HighBeam Research, offfering citations and some content free, with links to free and fee-based content.
Sunset Magazine
bibliography, covers, and articles about this Western magazine,
1898-1998. Time Magazine
searchable archives offers articles from 1923 on. 19th Century Newspapers from the Valley of the Shadow project. Four searchable newspapers from 1850s and 60s: Pennsylvania and Virginia newspapers from Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania linked to suggestions for use in high school projects. Specifying time period will lead you to the newspaper links. U.S.
News Archives on the Web Tables
of newspapers, some searchable extending back varying periods, but
The A.M.E. Church Review Quarterly. Published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Arguably the earliest published African-American journal. Some issues from 1890-1913. African
American Experience in Ohio Material from selected African
American weekly and monthly newspapers from The
Baptist, The National Baptist magazine, The Zion
Methodist: African American magazines from the Baltimore Afro-American, Afro
American 1902 - 1978 (partial) is avaliable through Paper of Record. The Brownies' Book:
African American children's magazine (1920-21) started by W.E.B DuBois,
digitized on the The Crisis:
Five issues from 1916 and 1929, on Cornell site. Freedom's
Journal The first African-American owned and operated
newspaper published in the U.S, appearing The
Liberator Files website on Garrison's publication, with
many
articles and commentary, not in original format. Woman’s
Era: African American clubwomen’s newspaper, edited by
Josephine St. P. Ruffin, and Florida R. Ridley. The Reflector:
Charlottesville, VA African American newspaper 1933-35; selected
articles and background. Black
Panther: Selected articles, 1967-1970. Covers of Selected African
American Magazines Covers
of the periodicals discussed in African-American Covers from The Black Panther,
available as posters. The Black Press:
Soldiers Without Swords: Resource site on the documentary
film on the African American press Article on Ebony, Jr. by Laretta Henderson. Article on Ida B. Wells Barnett, "Journalism as a Weapon Against Racial Bigotry," by Pamela Newkirk Article on using James Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography, by Randall K. Burkett Essay on the economics of Frederick Douglass's North Star, by Will Fassett
Native American Periodicals from the Index of
Native American Media Resources on the Internet. Article on 1940s-60s Native American periodical:
"Making News: Marie Potts and the Smoke
Signal of the Federated Indians of Irish Press 1818-22, World War, German American publication, 1916-18. Listing of U.S. immigrant periodicals in the
Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota,
useful as
Blacklight
African American gay/lesbian magazine online site
includes several issues from the Online exhibit on gay publications,
from the SF Public Library. Article: ONE
Magazine's historical fight against the Post Office for the
right to distribution, in 1958, by Jim Burroway. Interview: with
Amy Hoffman, on working at Gay Community News (Boston) in the 1970s and 80s. Bibliography: The
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Our Own
Voices: Lesbian and Gay Periodicals
Digital
Library of the Caribbean, includes newspapers. International,
multilingual. Internet Library of Early Journals
(British) at Oxford University The
Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge (British). Several issues Forget
Me Not Hypertextual archive of the early British “literary
annual,”which ran 1823-1847, created by Scottish
Canadian Newspaper: Nova Scotia, 1890-91; scans. British Newspaper Digitisation
Project Project from the British Library plans to digitize up to two million pages Paper
of Record has scanned local papers from
the US, the UK, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Ecuador,
France, Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (NCSE)
plans to digitize Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890); Tomahawk
London Magazine, or
Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, 1732-1839. From Online Books at
Penn. Victorian
Periodicals and the Empire: Imperial Views, Colonial
Subjects.(British) Science in
the 19th Century Periodical (British) Women’s
Magazines of the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's (British) The Quarterly Review (British)
publication important to the Romantics; 1809 issues. Quarterly Review Archive Belfast Newsletter Index 1737
- 1800 index to this long-running periodical. Repertorio
histórico de Puerto Rico Published
in Puerto Rico, from 1896-97 by Cayetano Coll y Toste. From the Australian Periodical Publications
1840-1845: digital library of Australian journals that began
publication between The Austrian National Library virtual newspaper reading room:ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
offers more Canadian True Crime and Tabloid Papers:
Print Culture and Urban Visuality project at McGill University. Nineteenth Century, by Jeb Byrne in American Studies International.
Tulean Dispatch: Newsletter from a Japanese-American Internment Camp, 1942 and 1943. Camp Newspapers: Civilian Conservation Corps “Heralds in New Deal America: Camp Newspapers of theCivilian Conservation Corps” article by Alfred Emile Cornebise in Media History Monographs. Zines and Journals on the Internet list from Voice of the Shuttle site Zine Resource Center GrrrlZine Network Article: on the problem of cataloging zines in libraries Article: on libraries collecting zines and other unusual periodicals.
The
Modernist Journals Project (British) The Modernist Magazines Project (British) List of Modern Magazines of Literary or
Artistic Significance Operating 1890-1922. From the Modernist Journals
Project. Aspen: A web version of Aspen, a multimedia magazine of the arts published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Article: “Idiom: A Story of Anti-Production, or The Triumph of Sloth” by Pamela
Lu on publishing an avant-garde
Scientific American Online: several volumes from the 1840s Sports magazines including Outing (1883-1915), Baseball Magazine (1908-1920), American Golfer (1908-1935), and Olympic Review (1901-2003) Law journals on the web The Green Bag: A Useless But Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers, Boston. The Women’s Legal History Biography Project website contains vol. 2, 1890. UNESCO Social Science Online Periodicals International list of over 190 social science periodicals with online access.
The
A.M.E. Church Review Quarterly. Published by the African
Methodist Episcopal Church. Arguably the National
Era: Complete copies of the 41 issues in which Uncle Tom's Cabin was serialized, as part of Wesley N. Raabe's The American Jewess (1895-1899) Monthly edited by Rosa Sonneschein, from the Jewish Women's Archive. The
Occident and American Jewish Advocate Issues of
Philadelphia Jewish monthly from 1843-1850; full text, Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project:
The
Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), The American
Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), The
Ram's Horn: An Interdenominational Social Gospel Magazine The
Ram's Horn was published in Chicago, Victorian Missionary Periodicals An
exhibit of British materials from Yale Divinity School Library. Online editions of current
secular/humanist/freethinking/atheist magazines
Stars and Stripes:
US Army newspaper, published February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, in
France.
Magazine Art A free visual data base of magazine cover art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Also many other useful magazine links. Magazine Covers from a magazine fan site. Magazine cover art from magazines publishing the writer Ellis Parker Butler. Magazine covers from the AdArt website. Modern Mechanix cover art from various scientific and quasi-scientific magazines. Elsewhere on the site are scanned-in ads and other bits, topically arranged. Covers from The Suffragist, from the 1910s. Life Magazine (Luce) offers a search of covers from 1936 on. Life the 19th century humor magazine -- covers courtesy of the hotel that occupies its old office building. Film Fun magazine covers. Mad Magazine covers, from a buyers' and sellers' site. Picture Play magazine covers, from Street and Smith archive. Sunset Magazine bibliography, covers, and articles about this Western magazine, 1898-1998. Posters advertising magazines, from the New York Public Library. Canadian True Crime and Tabloid Papers: Print Culture and Urban Visuality project at McGill University. Dissertation: Art for Industry's Sake: David Clayton Phillips's1996 dissertation, “Halftone Technology, Mass Photography and the Social Transformation of American Print Culture, 1880-1920” includes a substantial chapter on The Ten-Cent Magazine Revolution, and much information on half-tone photography in relation to periodicals. Rotogravure: Library of Congress site includes explanation of the process. Common-place's special issue "Revolution in Print: Graphics in Nineteenth-Century America" has much related to periodicals: 'Let Them Study as Men and Work as Women': Georgina Davis, New Women, and Illustrated Papers" The Art of Condescension: Postbellum Caricature and Woman Suffrage H. J. Lewis, Free Man and Freeman Artist: The First African American Political Cartoonist Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Appropriation Scrapbooks and Extra-illustration "'Like Standing on the Edge of the World and Looking Away into Heaven': Picturing Chinese Labor and Industrial Velocity in the Gilded Age" Photography in Engraving on Wood: On the Road to the Halftone Revolution Article: "Magazine Covers and Cover Lines: An Illustrated History" by Gerald Grow, from Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 2002 Print Processes and Reproduction of Dime Novels: A useful guide Rotogravure: WWI Pictorials from Library of Congress. Thomas Nast The
Punch Cartoon Page (British), a project put together by a
Vassar history class, displays Gallery of Illustration from the American
Newspaper Repository. Collection of links on magazine cover art from
Magazineart.org Blog: John Adcock's blog Yesterday's Papers focuses
on newspaper cartoons and illustration.
Posters advertising magazines,
from the New York Public Library Volume: Mickey Smith's project of
photographing bound sets of magazines with unexpected results! House made of newspaper in Rockport,
Massachusetts.
The Great Comic Book Data Base: Covers,
issues, gathered by fans. Comic Books
Bibliography of scholarly and other research on comic
books. New York World in the 1890s. Platinum Age Comics Discussion Group Discusses the earliest international origins of comic books and strips. Searchable archive. Article: on the New York World: The Lost World of Joseph Pulitzer, by Jack Shafer
Walt Whitman's Poems in Periodicals edited by Susan Belasco, on the Whitman Archive site which has other teaching resources and suggestions for use. Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Electronic Edition of the National Era Version Wesley N. Raabe's dissertation -- the edition itself as well as discussion of the publication. Dissertation: "Remapping Dickinson and Periodical Studies": Ingrid Satelmajer on Emily Dickinson's neglected periodical poems of the 1890s. It updates and recasts the narrative of Dickinson’s posthumous production and 2) challenges long-held assumptions about periodical culture that have contributed to that culture’s neglect. Films: The Prelinger Archive is a trove of “ephemeral” films -- advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films -- available for free downloading from the Web. Of special interest to magazine researchers: films on McCalls readers (1935), on Redbook readers (1957), magazine and newspaper journalism, and magazine cover models (both 1940). The Vault at Pfaff's: This website based on a beer cellar popular with a group of 1850s and 60s bohemian writers, artists, and performers brings together the poetry, drama, art, fiction, and social commentary that the Pfaff's bohemians produced, including The New York Saturday Press, the weekly periodical that served as the group's literary organ. Serialized Fiction: Stanford Special Collections invites readers to sign up to receive Dickens novels in serialized installments at Discovering Dickens How to Read
a Mid-Nineteenth Century Newspaper Radio
discussion:"The Magazine" on Chicago Public Radio show Odyssey.
“Magazines have runs an extensive website of resources on magazines, including bibliographies of research on periodicals. Magazine
Art A free visual data base of
magazine cover art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Also many other histories of several 19th century US magazines not now well known. Article, Early
American newspapers "Copernicus at the Newsstand"
by David Henkin, from Common-place.
Magazines
A group of magazine indexes that allow users to
look up stories and authors in popular and genre FictionMags Index Compiled by
volunteers; site allows users to look up stories by author or title. The
Girl's Own Paper Index (British) Authors Willa Cather's early journalism and
magazine writings,
from the University of Nebraska's Winnifred Eaton Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman Walt
Whitman's Poems in Periodicals edited by Susan
Belasco, on the Whitman Archive site.
Links to newspapers, magazines and job listings in journalism, courtesy of the American Journalism Review Media
History Monographs MHM is a quarterly online journal devoted
to
publishing scholarly journalism and mass Article on editing Everybody’s (1910) by John O`Hara Cosgrave, J. Jerome Nordman and Brand Whitlock
Rebellion Record: a
Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents 19th
Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression - University
of Tennessee Pennsylvania
Civil War Newspapers Harper's
Weekly Civil War Era papers: scans of some pages;
advertising supported. Harper's
Weekly for 1865, other issues coming, from the University of
Michigan. Secession Era
Editorials Project When complete this South Carolina project
will have at least one complete run of editorials The Valley of the Shadow Project: Two
communities in the American Civil War. Includes newspapers. The Countryman.
Georgia weekly, 1862-66. New South Newspaper, South Carolina, published by the Union, 1862-66. Southern Watchman
Civil War issues of Athens, Georgia paper, 1860-65. Richmond Virginia Daily Dispatch, full text, 1860-65
British journals from 1910 and 1911, as a resource for teaching about modernism. Library of Congress Chronicling America site has selected newspapers 1880-1910. 1930s Magazines: Site on the 1930s explores Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Fortune, and others.
Weekly, it offers free access to various other features through its Nineteenth Century World pages.
Paper of
Record Aims to be a searchable digital archive of historal
newspapers, so far with limited runs and limited search
Mystery
Short Fiction: 1990-2006. The site aims to list all mystery
short My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women,
1900-1901 Weird
Tales: The Unique Magazine - a view of the first 30 years
of this pulp publication, with information ERBzine. Pulp covers on fan site
devoted to
Edgar Rice Burroughs:
The
Ad*Access Project of the Duke University Libraries, presents
images and database information 1927
Advertising Survey An analysis of over 3,000,000
inquiries received by 98 firms from 2,339 magazine George P. Rowell’s American
Newspaper Directory: lists of newspapers and periodicals Canadian newspaper directory, 1886. W.
W. Butcher's Canadian Newspaper Directory. Women’s
Magazines of the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's (British) Gaslight
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