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Welcome to this library and research guide for HIST 163 / U.S. History 1876 to Present with Dr. Felix Harcourt. In this guide, you will find the library and Internet resources discussed in class, tips for searching, useful links, and other information related to research. Have a question? Get in touch!

PowerPoint Slides Slides from 9.13.24 class session

Recommended Resources to Use

Recommended Newspaper Resources:

Historical Newspapers: U.S. Major Dailies (1849-2020) This link opens in a new window This historical newspaper collection provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Publications include: Chicago Tribune (1847-), Los Angeles Times (1881-), New York Times (1851-), Wall Street Journal (1889-), and Washington Post (1877-). Check each publication for full-text coverage.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers From the Library of Congress. Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Texas Digital Newspaper Program The Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) partners with communities, publishers, and institutions to promote standards-based digitization of Texas newspapers and to make them freely accessible via The Portal to Texas History. Through continual outreach visits across Texas combined with advanced technological infrastructure and multiple funding sources, TDNP has become a state and national leader in newspaper preservation. People who work with the Digital Newspaper Program range from university researchers to librarians, K-12 students and educators, lay historians, and genealogists.

Other Library Newspaper Databases:

Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index This link opens in a new window
Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post This link opens in a new window

Portal to Texas History This link opens in a new window The Portal is a gateway to Texas history materials. You may discover anything from an ancestor's picture to a rare historical map. From prehistory to the present day, you can explore unique collections from Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, genealogical societies, and private family collections. The Portal is created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window A repository of resources providing access to books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access. The DPLA brings together the digitized materials of many universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations, providing a single portal for different viewpoints, experiences, and collections of society’s digitized cultural heritage.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines. At present, JSTOR contains a range of Arts & Sciences collections, a multidisciplinary Life Sciences Collection, discipline-specific collections across several fields, and four primary source collections. Collections on JSTOR include the complete archival record of each journal. Coverage begins at the first volume and issue of the journal ever published, and extends up to a publication date usually set in the past three to five years.
Also includes the Austin College Newspaper Collection, with over 400 issues written, edited, and published by Austin College students. Newspapers in the collection include: The Kangaroo, 1918-1968; The Hopper, 1972-1981; and The AC Observer, 1982-2006.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History This link opens in a new window Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.
Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window

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When using WorldCat Discovery, remember that you will primarily find scholarly articles, books and e-books, videos, and other items physically held in the library. If you want to search for newspaper articles, please use the recommended newspaper databases linked below.

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