WRIT 130: What Is College For?

Articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press, 1995 to present.

An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses, 1960 to present.

One of the largest collections of US newspapers, many in full text, as well as news sites, blogs, and newswires from the 1980s to the present (dates vary by title). Includes The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal.

U.S. & foreign newspapers, 1980s to present (dates of coverage vary).

Searchable full-text of more than 1,000 historical U.S. newspapers. The core of this database is Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922, searchable along with African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, and Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971.

Search for historical articles in a variety of major American and British newspapers. Comprised of the following titles, which can also be searched individually: Boston Globe, 1872-1989; Chicago Defender, 1909-1975; Chicago Tribune, 1849-1997; Guardian and the Observer (UK), 1791-2003; Los Angeles Times, 1881-1996; New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993; New York Times, 1851-2016; and Washington Post, 1877-2003

Weekly source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators, September 1989 to present.

Covers legislation before Congress, political and lobbying activity, including status of bills, votes and amendments, and floor and committee activity, 1983 to present. Formerly CQ Weekly.

Full text of The Nation, a liberal, national weekly journal covering foreign affairs, local and national politics, education, law, literature, and the arts, from 1865 to present.

Cross-searchable full-text archives of many news and cultural commentary magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Moment, and the New York Review of Books.

More than 170 academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres, by and about African Americans.