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New and Featured Resources

New Online Resource: 19th Century UK Periodicals

Contains over 2 million digitized pages of periodicals from 19th Century UK. Connect to this resource.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974

This new resource brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Connect to this resource.

Farm, Field and Fireside Agricultural Newspapers Collection

The History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library is pleased to announce the launch of the Farm, Field and Fireside collection.  This freely-available locally developed project contains digitized versions of historically significant U.S. farm newspapers published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Connect to Farm, Field and Fireside.

Illinois Digital Magazine and Yearbook Collection

The University of Illinois Library announces the availability of the Illinois Digital Magazine and Yearbook Collection featuring digital versions of UIUC's yearbook, the Illio for the years of 1970-1989.  Other titles include Arts for America (1894-1900), the Illinois Chemist (1915-1921), and the Illinois Society of Architects Monthly Bulletin (1916-1932). Connect to the collection.

More New Databases

UIUC Library recently purchased British Periodicals I & II as well as the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900) .  Enjoy!

Updates to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection

We are pleased to announce the addition of 50,916 pages of digital newspaper content to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection.  The latest update adds the years 1903-1915 of the Urbana Daily Courier and the years 1936-1945 of the Daily Illini. More info

Introducing Latin American Newspapers and the World News Archive 

Through our consortium membership with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), UIUC affiliates now have access to Latin American Newspapers—a World Newspaper Archive collection. This preliminary release provides more than 60,000 pages, including 3,000 issues printed between 1914 and 1922, of El Mercurio , an important Spanish-language paper published in Santiago. More info from CRL.

Champaign-Urbana Historic Built Environment Photograph Collection

This new resource offers a selection from the holdings of the Champaign County Historical Archives, which was established as a department of The Urbana Free Library in 1956. The collection currently contains 300 photographs of residential, commercial, and public buildings in Champaign and Urbana. More info

New E-Journal: The Sixties: a Journal of History, Politics and Culture

Features cross-disciplinary scholarship from academics and public intellectuals. Includes research essays, book reviews, conversations, interviews, graphics, and analyses of the ways the 1960s continue to be constructed in contemporary popular culture.

Digital Historian Series: Using Digital Tools for Archival Research

Check out our new web guide designed for scholars interested in using digital photography for archival research.

ProQuest African American Newspapers

The HPNL now offers access to several African American newspapers through ProQuest.  These include the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), the Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

British Newspapers 1600-1900

A full-text searchable database providing access to 3 centuries and approximately 3 million pages worth of historic newspapers, newsbooks and ephemera from the British Isles.

Latin American Newsstand

Recent issues of 41 Central and South American newspapers, and some outsiders which cover the continents; from London to Lima, Miami to Montevideo.  Title List

The Washington Post (1877-1991)

More than one hundred years of newspaper articles from the nation's capitol, in text and PDF format.

The Economist Historical Archive (1843-2003)

Every issue from 160 years of the magazine, reproduced in their original forms; completely searchable and in full "colour." Includes their many Supplements, Surveys, and Special Reports.

Olin Digital Film Archive

The Olin Digital Film Archive features streaming video interviews with the surviving soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, a division of the British Army during World War II.

Mass Observation

Mass Observation Online provides integrated access to approx. 115,000 digital images of material from the Mass Observation Project, an extensive social survey conducted in Britain during 1937 to early 1950s.

Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)

MEMSO provides a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources relating to British and Irish history on-line.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers

19th Century U.S. Newspapers is a full-text searchable, facsimile-image database, provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.

Historical Los Angeles Times (1881-1985)

Digital images of the Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) are now available to UIUC affiliates via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers. Browse by issue or search across the full-text in this rich resouce.

Historical Chicago Defender (1905-1975)

Digital images of the Chicago Defender's backfiles (1905-1975) are now available to UIUC affiliates via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers. Browse by issue or search across the full-text in this rich resouce

Chronicling America

Chronicling America allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.