[Ads-l] Databases for Historical U.S. Searching

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri Jul 1 20:15:44 UTC 2022 

Thanks for the info, Bill.  My impression was that Google News Archive has had its effectiveness crippled by lack of a global search capability.  Am I correct about that ?

Fred Shapiro


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From: Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
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Gale also includes a Confederate Newspapers archive which hasn't been mentioned.  Proquest captures a number of newspapers and other periodicals that aren't in the "Historical Newspapers" collection.  Google News Archive isn't as useful as it used to be, but I believe it has documents in the time period you mention.

And there are dozens and dozens of small local newspaper archives, often hosted by local civic and university libraries, that reach back into the period you are searching.  10-15 years ago, I put together a list of what I knew about:
https://sites.google.com/site/fulltextdatabases/home<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Ffulltextdatabases%2Fhome&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40yale.edu%7C22738c8efadd489cc71708da59da0aee%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637921091756442159%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Kc4IW8FIOTH5anh3N2BMQHa%2BdOjnxLowYxu8U4AwwNw%3D&reserved=0>
I haven't maintained the site, so some of these links are probably bad, and there are many that should be added.

Bill Mullins




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Thanks for the suggestions, Dave; let me return the favor with my own suggestions.  I'm a major consultant to the Gale company, so I won't argue against Gale as a go-to database.  America's Historical Newspapers is great for early Americana.  The ProQuest cross-searching is enormously powerful.  But you're really missing out if you don't include Newspapers.com as one of your go-to databases.  For newspapers, Newspapers.com is more powerful than ProQuest, Readex, and Gale combined.

Fred Shapiro


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Gale News Vault has American sources. It's mostly British, but you can filter by country to exclude those.

A number of pubs there will also be found in the databases you list, but there are unique ones. Gale has become one of my top three go-to databases (along with ProQuest and American's Historical Newspapers) because of its breadth of coverage.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online is another good source. It's another Gale database, so I assume the newspaper coverage overlaps with the News Vault, but it has non-newspaper sources as well, including scans of manuscripts. (Although I've found the manuscript date metadata is unreliable.)

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From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 7:40pm
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I am trying to do comprehensive searching for a certain phrase in U.S. newspapers or books or periodicals from the 1824-1878 period. I have already searched the following databases:

Newspapers.com
NewspaperArchive
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers
GenealogyBank
Chronicling America
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Fulton History
Accessible Archives
JSTOR
HeinOnline
Google Books
Internet Archive
HathiTrust

Am I missing any U.S. databases from this time-peirod ?

Fred Shapiro


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________________________________
From: Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 10:17 AM
To: American Dialect Society <ads-l at listserv.uga.edu>; Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
Subject: Fw: Databases for Historical U.S. Searching

Gale also includes a Confederate Newspapers archive which hasn't been mentioned.  Proquest captures a number of newspapers and other periodicals that aren't in the "Historical Newspapers" collection.  Google News Archive isn't as useful as it used to be, but I believe it has documents in the time period you mention.

And there are dozens and dozens of small local newspaper archives, often hosted by local civic and university libraries, that reach back into the period you are searching.  10-15 years ago, I put together a list of what I knew about:
https://sites.google.com/site/fulltextdatabases/home<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Ffulltextdatabases%2Fhome&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40yale.edu%7C22738c8efadd489cc71708da59da0aee%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637921091756442159%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Kc4IW8FIOTH5anh3N2BMQHa%2BdOjnxLowYxu8U4AwwNw%3D&reserved=0>
I haven't maintained the site, so some of these links are probably bad, and there are many that should be added.

Bill Mullins




________________________________
From: MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY DEVCOM AVMC (USA) <william.d.mullins18.civ at army.mil>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 9:04 AM
To: Amcombill <amcombill at hotmail.com>
Subject: Fw: Databases for Historical U.S. Searching


________________________________
From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7:59 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject:  Re: Databases for Historical U.S. Searching

----

Thanks for the suggestions, Dave; let me return the favor with my own suggestions.  I'm a major consultant to the Gale company, so I won't argue against Gale as a go-to database.  America's Historical Newspapers is great for early Americana.  The ProQuest cross-searching is enormously powerful.  But you're really missing out if you don't include Newspapers.com as one of your go-to databases.  For newspapers, Newspapers.com is more powerful than ProQuest, Readex, and Gale combined.

Fred Shapiro


________________________________
From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of dave at wilton.net <dave at WILTON.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7:21 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Databases for Historical U.S. Searching


Gale News Vault has American sources. It's mostly British, but you can filter by country to exclude those.

A number of pubs there will also be found in the databases you list, but there are unique ones. Gale has become one of my top three go-to databases (along with ProQuest and American's Historical Newspapers) because of its breadth of coverage.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online is another good source. It's another Gale database, so I assume the newspaper coverage overlaps with the News Vault, but it has non-newspaper sources as well, including scans of manuscripts. (Although I've found the manuscript date metadata is unreliable.)

-----Original Message-----
From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 7:40pm
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: [ADS-L] Databases for Historical U.S. Searching



I am trying to do comprehensive searching for a certain phrase in U.S. newspapers or books or periodicals from the 1824-1878 period. I have already searched the following databases:

Newspapers.com
NewspaperArchive
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers
GenealogyBank
Chronicling America
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Fulton History
Accessible Archives
JSTOR
HeinOnline
Google Books
Internet Archive
HathiTrust

Am I missing any U.S. databases from this time-peirod ?

Fred Shapiro


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