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Guide to resources for finding primary and secondary sources, with a focus on Texas
American Indian Newspapers
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new windowCovers 1828-2016. Formerly known as American Indian Newspapers.
A collection of 45 unique titles from Indigenous peoples of the U.S. and Canada that includes national periodicals, local community news, and student publications from tribal communities of the Blackfeet, Cherokee, Chippewa, Comanche, Ho-Chunk, Navajo, and Osage, among others. Key topics include activism and protest, American Indian Movement, sovereignty, cultural promotion and language revitalization, public health and welfare, education, and more.
San Antonio Newspapers
- San Antonio Express-News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window2018-current – full image
1990-current (text only) Excludes articles excerpted from other news sources, paid ads and obituaries.
1867-2018 – full image (incomplete)
2016-current – (text only) Web edition articles
Other sources:
JPL 4th Floor Microfilm: AN2 .S3 E9 (1868 - current) (with gaps)
Index (print): JPL 3rd Floor AI21 .S3 S26 (1988-1995)
San Antonio Express-News Photograph Collection (1941-1989)
- San Antonio LightOnline access to selected issues through Newspaper Archive Texas Collection (1882 - 1977) (UTSA subscription)
JPL 4th Floor Microfilm: AN 2 .S3 L53 (1987 -1993)
Other sources for microfilm: Trinity University (1882 -1992) and San Antonio College (1967-1993)
Photo Archive (UTSA Special Collections Digital Archive)
Portal to Texas History (1883 -1886) (open access)
Paper: Ceased publication 1/28/93
Earlier names: San Antonio Daily Light (1884 -1907)
Light and Gazette.(1907 -2011) - San Antonio Alamo Star / HeraldFree archive. The San Antonio Alamo Star was renamed the San Antonio Herald in 1855. The Herald was taken over by the San Antonio Daily Times in 1880.
Microfilm: AN2 .S3 H47 (1855-1878) (JPL)
Newspapers Online
- Dallas Morning News Historical Archive (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowCovers 1885-1977. A historical archive with 1.2 million pages from the Dallas Morning News, one of the state's oldest continuously published newspapers and a paper of record for major news and key events and personalities in Texas history.
- Portal to Texas History: NewspapersThe Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.
- Texas Digital Newspaper Program - List of Newspapers on the PortalNewspapers are listed alphabetically with dates of coverage. The Texas Digital Newspaper Program is a partnership intended to create a digitized newspaper resource that covers a broad geographical area.
- Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersSearch and view more than a million digitized newspaper pages. Coverage is from 1836-1922. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
- CRL - Center for Research Libraries: NewsRequest any CRL newspapers on microfilm for free through UTSA Libraries' Interlibrary Loan. More than 12,000 newspaper titles, over 10,000 of which are published outside the U.S. CRL endeavors to collect extensive and, whenever possible, complete runs of newspaper titles, and its holdings of some titles are the most complete in existence. All newspapers can be searched in CRL's catalog. Newspapers are on microfilm and may be requested via Get It for Me.
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowFull-text current and historical newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority presses of the U.S. and Canada. Provides the unique viewpoint of Hispanic, Native Peoples, African American, Caribbean, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, and Jewish communities. Dates of coverage: 1959-current.
- Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowFeatures full text for some 200 regional U.S. newspapers, 30 international newspapers, newswires, select newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times. Coverage of Middle Eastern and Asian-Pacific newspapers, such as the Jakarta Post, the Hong Kong Standard, Jordan Today, and The Australian, is particularly notable. Also contains full-text television and radio news transcripts.
- Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowSearch the full-text/full-image of several major U.S. and two major British newspapers: New York Times (1851-2019), Washington Post (1877-2006), Wall Street Journal (1889-2011), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2009), Los Angeles Times (1881-1999), Chicago Tribune (1849-1998), Austin American Statesman (1871-1980), Guardian (1821-2003) Observer (1791-2003), New York Amsterdam News (1922-2010), and the Chicago Defender (1909-2010), El Paso Times (1881-2009), El Paso Herald (1896-1996). Coverage begins with the first issue of each title.
- NewspaperArchive: Texas Collection This link opens in a new windowSearchable full image access to many historical newspapers from all across Texas, including the San Antonio Light (1882 -1977) and the San Antonio Express News (1865-1974). (Some years are incomplete.) Database covers 1813-2022.
Lists of Newspapers published in Texas, 1813-1846
- Texas Newspapers, 1813-1939. A Union List of Newspaper Files Available in Offices of Publishers, Libraries, and a Number of Private Collections by Texas Historical Records SurveyCall Number: Z6952 .T5 H57 1941JPL 4th Floor Special Collections, John Peace Collection
- Gaceta to Gazette: A Check List of Texas Newspapers, 1813-1846 by Wallace, John MeltonCall Number: Z6952.T5 W3 1966JPL 4th Floor Special Collections
Alphabetical list of Texas newspapers, with descriptions. Geographic index included.