Use the UNLV Libraries extensive selection of research databases (a database, sometimes called an index, is a searchable collection of articles, book chapters, and/ or primary sources).
Database Instructions:
Some databases are subject-specific. Below are some of the most useful databases to assist you in locating articles and primary sources in Communication Historiography:
Databases:
America's Historical Newspapers
Search the full text and view page images of newspapers from hundreds of American communities published from 1690 through 1922. Limit searches to items that fall into such categories as news/opinion, election returns, letters, poetry, legislative information, prices, advertisements, matrimony notices and death notices. (Covering period: 1690-1922)
American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
Full page images of works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. These books, pamphlets, serials and other documents provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.
American Periodicals Series Online
Search full text and view digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Published between 1741 and 1900, the more than 1,000 titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal. (Covering period: 1741-1900)
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
The full text of slave narratives collected by the WPA Federal Writers' Project between 1936 and 1938. Originally published in 43 volumes in 1972, 1978, and 1979, this searchable database contains the text from all 43 volumes.
Chicago Tribune
Complete front page to back page coverage of the Chicago Tribune, including news, ads, obituaries, reviews, editorials, legal notices, comics, and photographs. Full text is searchable. Output is a PDF image of the article as it appeared in the paper. For access to full text (not image) of Chicago Tribune articles since 1985 see ProQuest Newspapers. (Covering period: 1849-1985)
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
Selected articles from over 2500 issues of the New York Herald, the Charleston Mercury and Richmond Enquirer published from November, 1860 - Mid-April 1865. Featured are news articles, eyewitness accounts of events, military concerns and official reports of battles.
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
Full page images of 40,000 17th and 18th century books, pamphlets and broadsides listed in Charles Evans' American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. These searchable full text materials are primary sources documenting every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, including agriculture, foreign affairs, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, and slavery. (Covering period: 1639-1800. )
Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Text Creation Partnership
Searchable full text collection of 1500 texts selected from the Early American Imprints (Evans) collection. These accurately keyed editions allow better browsing and more precise searching than the page images supplied in the larger collection, but this search is available for only a small subset of the texts available in the main database.
Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Full page images of thousands of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in America between 1801 and 1819. These searchable full text materials are primary sources documenting every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, including agriculture, foreign affairs, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, and slavery. This is the online equivalent of microfilm research collections based on lists from Evans' American Bibliography (and supplements) and Shaw and Shoemaker's American Bibliography, 1801-1819. (Covering period: 1801-1819. )
Godey's Lady's Book
Godey's Lady's Book provides information on 19th century American history including important social issues of the day and information on social history, women's issues, material culture, textile studies, and contemporary literature. Also appearing in this publication are pieces of sheet music, stories, poetry, book notices, and historical writing. (Covering period: 1830-1880. )
LexisNexis Primary Sources in African American History
This database provides the full text of both primary and secondary source material relating to the African American experience. Included are autobiographies, case law and statutes, government publications, photographs, reference and scholarly articles, speeches, and excerpts from manuscript collections such as the files of the NAACP and the White House civil rights files of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. Presidential History
Contains primary and secondary sources about American presidents from George Washington to William Clinton found in autobiographies and contemporary accounts, government documents, manuscripts, photographs and images, reference articles, scholarly articles, and presidential speeches. It also contains materials about political leaders, presidential friends, and family members for many of the presidents.
Los Angeles Times 1881-1984
Complete front page to back page coverage of the Los Angeles Times, including news, ads, obituaries, reviews, editorials, legal notices, comics, and photographs. Full text is searchable. Output is a PDF image of the article as it appeared in the paper. For access to full text (not image) of Los Angeles Times articles since 1984 see ProQuest Newspapers.
New York Times, 1851-2002
Complete front page to back page coverage of the New York Times, including news, ads, obituaries, reviews, editorials, legal notices, comics, and photographs. Full text is searchable. Output is a PDF image of the article as it appeared in the paper. For access to full text (not image) of New York Times articles since 2002 see ProQuest Newspapers.
Television News Archive
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.
Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, presents searchable full text and page images of The Times (London). The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. Search the full text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, and advertising.
If you have a citation for an article, you can determine whether or not the UNLV Libraries has a print or electronic subscription to the journal and whether or not that subscription was active at the time the article was published.
Finding an article:
For example, to find the following:
Varon, Elizabeth R. “Tippecanoe and the Ladies, Too: White Women and the Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia.” The Journal of American History, 82, 2 (September 1995): 494-521.
Your results may look something like this:
The first link in this results list indicates that the Libraries have a print subscription (to see the years of the print subscription, click on the text “University of Nevada Las Vegas Holdings”)
The second and third links point to the Libraries online subscriptions (which likely overlap the print subscription and may overlap each other as different publishers or vendors offer similar products producing overlap of availability of specific journals).
In our example, since we are looking for an article published in 1995, we should click on the text “JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection” to find more than 25 years of issues of the journal online including 1995.
Using the volume (82) and issue (2) listed in our citation, we can click through to the table of contents for the correct journal issue and find the article online.
NOTE: We do not have subscriptions to all of the journals you may discover citations for. Alternately, we may subscribe to a title in only one format (only in print or only electronically). We can frequently get access to any article you are seeking, but it may take a little time and effort. Look into our Document Delivery Services for more information.
View a demonstration of how to use the UNLV print and online journal subscriptions list. (requires Flash player)
What is RefWorks?
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic software package that enables you to:
Check out the UNLV Libraries RefWorks page for more details and tutorials on RefWorks.
American Memory: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/
From the Library of Congress, the American Memory project is a collection of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress Americana collections. There are over 70 collections included in the project. You can search a particular topic or browse through the collections.
Ad*Access: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/adaccess/
A collection of images from over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines from 1911 through 1955. Subject areas include: radio, television, transportation, beauty and hygiene and World War II.
The American Civil War Homepage: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
A general site on the American Civil War that includes links to images and photographs from the Civil War as well as links to important Civil War documents.
American Radicalism: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/
An online collection of digital texts and images from the American Radicalism collection at Michigan State University. Among the many subject areas included are the Hollywood Ten, Black Panthers, Birth Control, I.W.W., Wounded Knee and Students for a Democratic Society.
Documenting the American South: http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is an electronic collection that provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Five different projects make up the site: Southern literature; first-person narratives; slave narratives; the Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; the church in the Southern Black Community.
The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow.html
A project that interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. It incorporates a narrative and electronic archive of the sources on which the narrative is based.
World War II Resources: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/
Primary source materials on all aspects of the war.
History Matters: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts
This feature contains primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history.
Making of America (MoA): http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ OR
Making of America: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Online Newshour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html
Site of the Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material. Most of the 20,000 items are from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65.
American Political Prints: http://loc.harpweek.com/
Browsable and searchable American political prints from 1766-1876.
Benson, T. Lloyd. Secession Era Editorials Project:
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/editorial/
Editorials from the Secession Era from the following sources: Nebraska Bill Editorials (1854); Caning of Sumner Editorials (1856); Dred Scott Editorials (1857); and
Harper's Ferry / John Brown Editorials (1859).
The Media History Project: http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/
This online project, hosted and supported by the University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication, promotes the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels. It includes resources focusing on early media, print media, electrical media, mass media, and digital media.
Communication Studies Portal: http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/commun.html
Trinity University’s portal that focuses on links to studies on the media; electronic newspapers; media case studies; and more.
For further assistance or questions, contact:
Susie Skarl, Urban Studies Librarian
susie.skarl@unlv.edu
895-2141
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