Library: HIST 432: 20th Century Latin American Revolutions: Newspapers & Periodicals

Newspapers & Periodicals

Much of Helmke Library's newspaper and magazine content is either U.S.-based or focused on current coverage or pre-1925 coverage. That said, you can search U.S. publications for their coverage of Latin America and also access some important titles, including Spanish-language content. See also the Website tab.

Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full-text searching of U.S. newspapers. Includes a variety of titles, such as the Baltimore Afro-America (1893-1988), Baltimore Sun (1837-1991), Boston Globe (1872-1984), Chicago Tribune (1849-1992), Detroit Free Press (1831-1922), Los Angeles Times (1881-1992), New York Times (1851-2013), and Washington Post (1877-1999), among others.

ProQuest Periodicals
Includes mostly U.S. magazines and periodicals, with some foreign language titles. For example, includes Américas, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, and Archivo Ibero-Americano. Date coverage varies. It searches three ProQuest databases: American Periodicals, Periodicals Archive Online and Periodicals Index Online.

NewsBank Access World News Collection This link opens in a new window
Features credible information from a wide variety of international, national, and local news sources, including Fort Wayne's Journal Gazette, in all subject areas including political science, English, sociology, humanities, business, international studies, current events, science, and more.
NewsVault This link opens in a new window
Includes U.S. and British newspapers and periodicals. You can scroll down to select the collection you want to search.

Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (CNDL)
Digitized newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials from the Caribbean and Latin America. Includes both English and Spanish-langauge content.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
English and Spanish-language content. Date coverage is current and varies by title. To find newspapers and magazines by country, go to "Source Directory" at the top of the page and choose "Browse." Then, filter by the country of your choice. To see date coverage, click on the "i" next to the name of the publication.

ProQuest U.S. Major Dailies: Recent Coverage
Current coverage (approx. 1990-current) full text of U.S. major daily newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Informe Academico This link opens in a new window
Separate Spanish and English search interfaces provide access to articles in more than 100 popular Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets. Includes indexing, images, and full-text.

Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. See the "Timeline" for date coverage.
LANIC Newpapers: Mexico
A list of newspapers in Mexico, with links to their websites. You could try looking for these titles in the E-journal Finder. See also the LANIC Cuba page
E-Journal Finder
If you know the name of a magazine or periodical (i.e. Nation), you can search for it here to find Helmke Library e-access and date coverage.

You can also try looking for newspapers and periodicals in primary source databases.