Research Guides
Coverage: 19th century
Provides access to major African American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Publications include Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
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Coverage: 1931-2010
Archive of the historical African American newspaper Atlanta Daily World, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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Coverage: 1976-present
Black Life in America, Series 3 offers a window into African American history, culture and daily life as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent. Updated daily with new content, this database provides in-depth coverage of issues involved in America's ongoing conversation on race, including coverage of historic changes such as Barack Obama's election and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Coverage: 1892-2019
Access to 40 historic Black Oklahoma newspapers, including The Black Dispatch, The Oklahoma Guide, Tulsa Star, and The Muskogee Cimeter.
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This open access collection includes periodicals published by Black Americans during the early 1900s to the 1980s. Publications include those from women's organizations, religious groups, and labor organizations.
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Contains the non-fiction published works of over 1,000 leading African Americans, including artists, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, entertainers, and more. Resources cover over 250 years of history and include interviews, journal articles, letters, speeches, trial transcripts, and other materials. Includes access to Black Panther, the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party.
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Coverage: 1909-2010
Archive of the historical African American newspaper The Chicago Defender, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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Coverage: 1756-1963
Access to hundreds of historic American newspapers from across the country. Resources include the Historical African American Newspaper Collection, which features 300 newspapers from nearly every state, and the Indians of North America Newspaper Collection.
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Coverage: 1959-present
Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. Includes access to the Black American Series and the Native American Series.
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Searches the full text of the Atlanta Daily World, The Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, and The Pittsburgh Courier.
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Coverage: 1934-2010
Archive of the historical African American newspaper the Los Angeles Sentinel, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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Coverage: 1922-2010
Archive of the historical African American newspaper the New York Amsterdam News, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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Coverage: 1916-2010
Archives of the historical African American newspaper Norfolk Journal and Guide, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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Coverage: 1911-2010
Archive of the historical African American newspaper The Pittsburgh Courier, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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Coverage: 1690-1980
Features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages of full text, searchable facsimile images. Collections include Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) and Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980).
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Access to rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, magazines, and archival materials from across Native North America.
Coverage: 1800-2020
American Prison Newspapers is an open access collection that brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. The collection contains newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women-only institutions.
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America's News provides a variety of news media, such as newspaper articles, news blogs, magazines, newswires, journals, transcripts, videos, and web-only news sources. This resource includes access to over 4,000 national, regional, and local news sources, including The Oklahoman from 1981 onward and The Oklahoma Web Edition from 2013 onward.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1849-present
Full text online archive of the Chicago Tribune, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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Coverage: 1756-1963
Access to hundreds of historic American newspapers from across the country. Resources include the Historical African American Newspaper Collection, which features 300 newspapers from nearly every state, and the Indians of North America Newspaper Collection.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1959-present
Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Provides access to business and news archives, historical market data, interactive charting, financial statements, and company reports.
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Open access to a variety of newspapers published around the years in PDF format. Coverage varies by publication.
Coverage: 1808-1908
Provides access to more than 350 Spanish-language and bilingual Spanish-English newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. These newspapers offer unabridged voices, ranging from intellectuals and literary notables to politicians, union organizers, and grassroots figures. Key titles include El Clamor Publico (Los Angeles), El Nuevo Mexicano (Santa Fe), Latin Times (Chicago), and El Misisipi (New Orleans).
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Open access to hundreds of historical Jewish newspapers from around the world. Coverage varies by publication and languages include Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, German, Polish, Russian, and others.
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Searches the full text of twelve historical newspapers: Atlanta Daily World, The Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian and The Observer, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, The New York Times, Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. Includes access to the Black American Series and the Native American Series.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorials.
Coverage: 1828-2016
This database offers a diverse collection of print journalism from Indigenous Peoples of the US and Canada. Resources include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. This collection is also bi-lingual and features editions in Indigenous-languages, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo. Subjects covered include the self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, language revitalization, environmentalism, tribal laws, public health and welfare, and rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective.
This resource has been developed with the permission and contribution of the newspaper publishers and Tribal Councils concerned.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1942-1946
Open access to 29 publications created by Japanese Americans interned at relocation centers in America during World War II. Resources are handwritten, drawn, and typed in a mix of English and Japanese and include information about daily life, community events, and editorials.
Coverage: 1881-present
Full text online archive of the Los Angeles Times, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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Provides full text to over 500 U.S. newspapers and over 600 international newspapers. Real time news updates are also available through newswires such as CNN Newswire, PR Newswire, and CNN. This database also provides access to over 1.6 million radio and television transcripts.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online print or video tutorial.
Coverage: 1851-present
Full text online archive of the The New York Times, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues, excluding the most recent 30 days.
Note: Access to the most recent month of The New York Times online content is available via NYTimes.com.
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Coverage: 1800-1900
Access hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Major newspapers stand alongside lesser known titles published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, political parties, and the Confederacy.
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Coverage: 20th and 21st centuries
An open access collection providing access to primary sources documenting the deep and broad history of student organizing in the United States. Resources included are broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint - from the conservative to the anarchist. This collection includes leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, campaign materials, protest literature, clippings, periodicals, bulletins, letters, press releases, and event documentation. Events covered include anti-apartheid divestiture, women's rights, the free speech movement, the Columbia University student strike of 1968, Take-Back-the-Night anti-sexual assault activism, and more.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorials.
Coverage: 1850-2009
Access to hundreds of Texas historic newspapers, providing information about events and opinions that shaped the state over time. Newspapers are from a variety of locations and include a wide range of viewpoints.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1889-present
Full text online archive of The Wall Street Journal, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
NOTE: Coverage includes 1889-present, excluding the most recent week. See The Wall Street Journal for 1997-present (requires a user registered account).
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1877-present
Full text online archive of The Washington Post, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
NOTE: Coverage includes 1877-present, excluding the most recent week.
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Coverage: 1800-1922
Provides access to more than 40 African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Features English and foreign language titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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Coverage: 1981-2016
The Daily Observer is Liberia's English language best-known independent national newspaper. This archive provides access to over thirty years of coverage of the modern history of Liberia, including the Liberian Civil War through its current phase of development.
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Coverage: 1938-1987
Die Transvaler was established as a newspaper to promote the cause of Afrikaner nationalism within the Afrikaner-dominated National Party in South Africa. This newspaper was notorious for its racism and antisemitism and was edited by Hendrik Verwoerd, future prime minister and architect of the apartheid regime. This archive is a valuable resource for scholars of African studies, history, politics, war, genocide, apartheid, and the media.
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Coverage: 1943-2003
The East African Newspapers collection provides insight into the region from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Coverage includes articles on the growth of decolonization, self-governance, famine, drought, political uprisings, and the post-colonial landscape. This growing collection currently includes over 475,000 pages total from three titles: Daily Nation (1958-2002, Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald (1943-1989, Ethiopia), and The Monitor (1992-2003, Uganda).
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Asahi Shimbun AJW is an English language, open access, digital version of The Asahi Shimbun AJW, Japan's daily newspaper. AJW originally stood for Asahi Japan Watch, but now it represents Asia and Japan Watch to better reflect the editorial policy of offering in-depth coverage of China, the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Asia, in addition to extensive coverage of Japanese politics, business, and society.
Coverage: 1875-1889
Choya Shinbun was a major Japanese newspaper during the early and mid-Meiji periods. It is best known for its support of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement, and it helped shape public opinion during a political era that saw the establishment of the Meiji Constitution and the Imperial Diet.
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Coverage: 1947-1995
The Independence Evening Post was founded in 1947 as Taiwan's first Chinese-language evening newspaper.
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Coverage: 1911-1949
Provides perspective on the late Qing and Republican era in China. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland. The collection provides a comprehensive perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics throughout the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the birth of the People's Republic.
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Coverage: 1946-1996
Articles published by major communist Chinese newspapers, collected and translated into English by the CIA.
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Coverage: 1864-1922
Features English, Gujarati, and Bengali language newspapers published in India, in the regions of the Subcontinent that now comprise Pakistan, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). South Asian Newspapers offers extensive coverage of the people, issues, culture, politics, and events that shaped the Indian Subcontinent during 19th and 20th centuries.
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Coverage: 1864-1922
Included in the World Newspaper Archive database, this collection provides access to ten different nineteenth and twentieth century South Asian newspapers written in Bengali, Gujarati, and English.
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Coverage: 1839-1976
The Southeast Asian Newspapers collection chronicles the changes and challenges that took place throughout the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Covers several countries from the region, including Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and features multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
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Coverage: 1800-1900
Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society during the 19th century.
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Coverage: 1888-2021
A key international business paper based in London, The Financial Times Historical Archive provides access to fully searchable digital reproductions of every issue from 1888-2021. Coverage includes critical financial and economic events, industry, energy, international politics, and more recently management, personal finance and the arts.
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Coverage: 1791-2003
Archive of the historical The Guardian and The Observer British newspapers, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.
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The largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. The resource includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.
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Coverage: 1785-2019
Complete searchable digital archive of The Times (London), except for the Sunday edition. Includes all articles, advertisements, illustrations, and photos.
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Coverage: 1898-2001
This collection provides access to over 900 newspapers from over 340 Ukrainian cities. While most newspapers in the collection are in Ukrainian and Russian, there are also papers written in German, Armenian, Crimean Tatar, Hebrew, Polish, Hungarian, and more. Together, these newspapers document the regional consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the early period of Ukraine's independence, and events leading up to the Orange Revolution (2004-2005).
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1946-present
Established in East Berlin in 1946 as the official organ of the former German Democratic Republic, Neues Deutschland provides firsthand accounts of the 20th century's most momentous events from the Cold War's epicenter - the establishment of the German Democratic Republic, the Berlin Airlift, the Soviet space program, speeches by Presidents Kennedy and Reagan, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of Germany, and much more. The Neues Deutschland Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1946 onward, with an additional year's worth of content added on an annual basis.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1959-present
Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Open access to hundreds of historical Jewish newspapers from around the world. Coverage varies by publication and languages include Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, German, Polish, Russian, and others.
For more information about using this resource, please view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1956-present
El Caribe is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Santo Domingo and is one of the Dominican Republic's most influential and longest-running newspapers. Except for brief interruptions in publication for a month in 1962 and seven months in 1965, El Caribe has been a constant chronicle of national and international news, both for the Dominican Republic and the broader Caribbean region.
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Coverage: 1918-1946
El Imparcial was a conservative, pro-independence tabloid published in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the early 20th century. During that time, it was the most widely read newspaper in Puerto Rico, providing coverage on such historical events as the Cuban Revolution and political corruption in Puerto Rico in the 1940s.
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Coverage: 1919-1990
El Mundo was a conservative newspaper from Puerto Rico during the 20th century, in production from 1919-1990. Key topics covered by the newspaper include industrialization of Puerto Rican society, the Great Depression, territorial relations with the United States, independence movements such as the Macheteros and FALN, the rise of the Popular Democratic Party, the Ponce massacre, and more.
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Open access to hundreds of Spanish language publications from Mexico and Spain. Resources include magazines, newspapers, comics, and government publications.
For more information about using this resource, please view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1807-1972
The Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection traces the evolution of Mexico during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Comprised of over 1,000 titles from Mexico's pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods, this collection provides documentation on topics such as partisan politics, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news. Material is sourced from the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas in Austin, the preeminent Latin American library in the United States.
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Coverage: 1800-1924
Included in the World Newspaper Archive, this collection provides access to more than 35 nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American newspapers. Features titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere.
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Coverage: 1943-1949
Noticias Graficas was a groundbreaking Argentine newspaper published in Buenos Aires during the early 20th century, known for its double-page illustrated center spread and high-quality journalism. This prominent newspaper was shut down during the dictatorship of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu.
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Coverage: 1908-1948
Open access to a variety of Arabic language publications published in Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine. Coverage varies by publication. Resources include newspapers, satirical magazines, and social, educational, and cultural journals.
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Coverage: 1870-2019
This collection provides insight into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events. 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, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Arab Spring. Content is predominantly in Arabic, but includes key titles in English and French. Includes access to over 80 publications, including Jumhuriyah (الجمهورية, Egypt), Filastin (فلسطين, Palestine), Al Akhbar (الاخبار, Lebanon), Al Riadh (الرياض, Saudi Arabia), and Ad Dustour (الدستور, Jordan).
For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.
Coverage: 1949-present
Founded in 1949, The Current Digest of the Russian Press presents a selection of Russian language press materials, carefully translated into English. Content is taken from a wide selection of sources and features a diverse range of reporters and authors. Selections are presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
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Coverage: 1767-1918
The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The collection's core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.
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Coverage: 1990-2016
The Post-Perestroika Newspapers collection traces the evolution of post-Soviet Russia, with coverage beginning in the mid-1980s and extending well into the twenty-first century. These newspapers, some of which had a relatively short lifespan, provide important and critical insight into the events and personalities that defined post-Soviet Russian politics and history.
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Coverage: 1959-1996
Articles published by Pravda during the Cold War and the years immediately following, collected and translated into English by the CIA.
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Coverage: 1912-2023
Pravda was the official voice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991 and the most important newspaper of the Soviet era. This resource provides full text images of the Russian language newspaper.
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Coverage: 1941-1996
Provides access to the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. This resource includes translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and commentary.
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Open access to a variety of newspapers published around the years in PDF format. Coverage varies by publication.
Coverage: 1957-1995
Provides access to English translations of foreign language materials from regions throughout the world. Includes monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts. This database is ideal for the study of history of science, global economics, agriculture, health, political culture, international relations, and military affairs.
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