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

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Jun 29 00:06:05 UTC 2022


Thanks, Bonnie, for your usual helpfulness.  But I have always assumed that all these state newspaper databases are covered by searching Chronicling America.  Is that not true ?

Fred Shapiro


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Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 7:58 PM
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Subject: Re: Databases for Historical U.S. Searching

I find that the following also come in handy sometimes, mostly because I
sense that some of the newspapers in these collections haven't appeared in
some of the better known databases.

Georgia Historic Newspapers: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C519e60adfd3a478fbdbf08da59621a89%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637920575136374271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9q%2F9C%2BYbBgniyk80M2I6CAELTy%2BlmZ4Kq62mRSASjZg%3D&reserved=0

A similar one for Texas: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftexashistory.unt.edu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C519e60adfd3a478fbdbf08da59621a89%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637920575136374271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3MXncmz0ziPnGb65zqvDWy8LIff9%2B86OkkBh7JGMmuc%3D&reserved=0

California Digital Newspaper Collection: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdnc.ucr.edu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C519e60adfd3a478fbdbf08da59621a89%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637920575136374271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GsBMFgFPBYaf0L3x1rlC%2Bv41C6%2B8u4zgpgEdQt6Dvls%3D&reserved=0

Hoosier State Chronicles: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewspapers.library.in.gov%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C519e60adfd3a478fbdbf08da59621a89%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637920575136374271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VrXsMeHZTZAtWcI6pKj0M38B9%2BOVKLhBsa9OfWhuj8Y%3D&reserved=0

(TBH, poking around to see what each state has to share for its historic
newspapers sometimes helps.)

Yours in competitive antedating,
Bonnie

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 7:40 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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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