Research Guides: Find Newspapers: Ethnic Newspapers

Specialized News Collections

Collections here as those published for and by members of a group based on ethnic or racial affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, or political affiliation.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 contains African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new window
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century contains information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, with reports on events , including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses.
Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
Alternative Press Index indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from 1991 to present that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
Indigenous Newspapers offers publications from historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.
American Prison Newspapers (1800-2020) This link opens in a new window
American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years.
Black Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Black Historical Newspapers contains primary source material from American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It covers the periods from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights.

Contemporary Culture Collection (CCC)
The CCC includes newspapers and newsletters (along with other kinds of primary sources) from 1960s to the present that document North American social, political, economic, and cultural history as it pertains to minority groups, the counterculture, and the fringe.

Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 12
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 12
GenderWatch is a database of diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. It contains archival material, dating back to 1970. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.
Independent Voices This link opens in a new window
Independent Voices is a growing digital collection of the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative and small press archives of participating libraries.
LGBTQ+ Life This link opens in a new window
LGBTQ+ Life provides indexing and abstracts of worldwide literature on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
Socialist and Radical Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Access guaranteed through May 2027
Socialist and Radical Periodicals offers serials from the 20th and 21st century reflecting the history of a variety of movements and ideologies on the political left. These titles include Marxist, socialist, communist, social democratic, and Fabianist publications.
Student Activism This link opens in a new window
Student Activism captures the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources are broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from conservative to anarchist.

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