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).

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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).

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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. 

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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.

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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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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.

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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).

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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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Coverage: 1540-1921

Covers the history of Africa and its diverse people over nearly 400 years and includes more than 1,300 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

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Coverage: 1946-1975

This database contains primary resources such as radio broadcasts, periodicals, newspapers, and government documents from around the world and provides in depth analysis of the roots and history of the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

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Coverage: 1946-1996

International survey of the effects of apartheid on South Africa and the world with a digitized collection of primary source documents related to apartheid. 

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Coverage: 13th-20th centuries

American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) covers classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing from the 13th through the 20th century. Some full text is available.

Coverage: 1535-1920

This resource covers the diverse history of the Caribbean Islands over nearly 400 years. Includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

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Coverage: 1945-1991

International primary source documents on the Cold War. Resources include news broadcasts, reports, and publications.  

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Coverage: 1954-1999

The DNSA collection is the most comprehensive collection available of significant declassified U.S. government documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. University of Oklahoma Libraries provides access to four sub-collections relating to Latin American policy and human rights:

• El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
• El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994 
• Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
• Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the U.S., 1954-1999

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Coverage: 1473-1700

Early English Books Online contains over 140,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement. All titles are full text digital facsimiles from the Early English Books microfilm collection. Highlights of the collection include works by Shakespeare, Malory, Erasmus, Newton, and Galileo.

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Coverage: 1475-1701

Provides access to high-resolution facsimile images of rare printed sources from the origin of printing through the seventeenth century. Early European Books contains significant works by Aristotle, Copernicus, Descartes, Erasmus, Kepler, Luther and Spinoza, alongside ephemeral works such as pamphlets and almanacs. The works encompass all the major fields of human endeavour, including science, medicine, philosophy, theology, literature, history, political science, travel, and exploration.

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Wiley's Environmental Science and History Digital Archive focuses on critical aspects of environmental science, history, and anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple global sources. The archive includes manuscripts, images, maps, and photographs covering topics such as deforestation, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, ecology, botany, biodiversity, extinction, water sources, irrigation, wetlands, and hydrology.

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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. 

For more information about using this resource, view the publisher's online tutorial.

Coverage: 1300-1700

Presents over 100 carefully selected French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning about their social, cultural, and institutional settings.

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Coverage: 1941-1996

Digital archive covering all aspects of 20th-century human migration, including first-hand reports and global analysis. 

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Provides fully searchable and browsable English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, including Encyclopedia Nipponica, Dictionary of Synonyms in Japanese, Encyclopedia of Japan, Yuhikaku Dictionary of Psychology, Shogakukan-Oxford English-Japanese Learner's Thesaurus, and Great Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature. Also includes articles published in the weekly magazine Ekonomisuto.

University of Oklahoma Libraries has licensed this resource for 2 simultaneous users.

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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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Coverage: 1958-1994

Digital archive spanning 19 countries and four decades covering cultural, economic, and political developments within the regions. 

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Access to full text resources covering a variety of topics from the 19th century, including British politics and society, diplomatic and cultural exchange between Asia and the West, British theatre and music, and European literature from the Corvey Collection. Content is drawn from the world's preeminent libraries and archives and includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera.

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Coverage: 1945- 1996

This database contains translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books providing global reaction to the world Arms Race. The collection allows researchers to trace not only the development and spread of the world's most dangerous weapons, but also regional reactions, treaties and agreements, and efforts to limit nuclear proliferation.

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Growing open access collection of historical and contemporary primary sources in the arts, humanities, and social sciences from and about South Asia. Resources include books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure. This collection is built through a collaborative initiative involving US research libraries and partners from South Asia.

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This database focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in Southern Africa, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Over 20,000 primary source materials include periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, oral histories, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print books, photographs, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles.

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A collection of more than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites. Resources include site plans, maps, 3D models, panorama images, manuscripts and books, trade logs, videos, excavation reports, archaeological and ethnographic field notes, personal journals and travelers' accounts from the 17th century to the 19th century, and more.

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Coverage: 1946-1996

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books providing global reaction to major protest and reform movements.

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