Research Assistance
Newspapers
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NexisUniNexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
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Morning CallLocal news for the Lehigh Valley
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New York TimesThe New York Times (June 1980 to present), New York Times Online (full text March 2015 to present), New York Times Magazine and Book Review (January 1997 to present), updated daily on ProQuest U.S. Major Dailies.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Current access)Full-text edition covering 1981-present, made available through the library's subscription to the America's Newspapers collection. Retrieve articles by searching the full-text or limiting to headline, date, author, topic or section of the article record.
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Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)Includes current issue of the WSJ as well as articles back to 1984.
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Washington PostThe Washington Post (full text January 1987 to present) updated daily on ProQuest U.S. Major Dailies. Also available through NexisUni.
Television and Radio Archives
Need to find a historical televsion or radio program? Try searching in these sources.
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British Pathe ArchivesContains audio clips of news, sports, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970s. Still frames or "storyboards of clips" are free, but registration is required for the free previews.
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CBC Digital ArchivesContains a selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
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National Public Broadcasting and Library of American BroadcastingThe University of Maryland's Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture holds a wide-ranging collection of resources documenting the history of radio and television broadcasting. Important collections include the National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) and the Library of American Broadcasting (LAB).
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Moving Image Research CollectionMoving Image Research Collections (MIRC) strives to preserve our global moving image heritage, diversify understandings of moving image culture, and envision a better future by encouraging new interpretations of the recent past. MIRC began in 1980 with the gift of the Fox Movietone News Collection.
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Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveContains individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.
Historic Newspaper Archives
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Google News ArchiveFree access to newspapers digitized by Google, including many historical papers. May not be full runs.
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New York Times (Historical Newspapers)Can be a useful place to look for coverage of 19th and 20th Century events. The database covers from 1851 to 2010.
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19th Century U.S. Newspaper Digital ArchiveThis collection of primary source newspaper materials searches cover-to-cover of the full-text contents for hundreds of 19th century U.S. papers. Coverage dates vary by title.
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African-American Newspapers: The 19th CenturyIncludes the following newspapers: Christian Recorder, Colored American, Freedom's Journal, Frederick Douglass Paper, Douglass Monthly, National Era, North Star, Provincial Freeman
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Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersThis site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).