LibGuides: Hist 102 (Clemente) spring 2025: Library Guides

Newspaper evidence about the influenza pandemic

Chronicling America: Spanish Flu
Use this link to browse selected newspaper articles about the pandemic from the Library of Congress.
Influenza Archive: 50 cities
(optional link to museum exhibit with more details of how different cities were affected)

Historical Newspapers available from UNLV Libraries

Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Afro-American, 1893-2010
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender, 1909-2010
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune
Historical Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, 1908-2007
Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Historical Newspapers: New York Times
Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune, 1841-1922
Historical Newspapers: Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1916-2010
Historical Newspapers: Philadelphia Tribune, 1912-2010
Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2010
Historical Newspapers: Washington Post
Historical Newspapers: U. S. West Collection
Newspapers including Reno Gazette-Journal (1876-2008), San Francisco Examiner (1889-2007), and Spokane Statesman-Review (1894-2009); also includes selected 20th century newspapers from St. George, UT, and Tulare County and Salinas, CA.

newspapers on other platforms

These collections can be searched using the same principles but the search forms will look different.

Las Vegas Age
Best browsed by date - see page 4 for 1918-1919.

Indigenous Newspapers in North America
1828-2016
Includes national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications from an Indigenous perspective.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
1808-1980
Newspapers published by Hispanic-American communities primarily in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas and New York.
San Francisco Chronicle, 1865-current
1865-1984, 1985-current
Full page images of the daily San Francisco Chronicle, Northern California's largest circulation newspaper, through 1984. Text of articles only after 1985.
America's Historical Newspapers
1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.

Magazines and journals

Women's Magazine Archive
1887-2005
North American women's magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents Magazine, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Essence.
Interwar Culture
1920-1930
British and American magazines featuring fiction, current affairs, arts, fashion and culture.
American Periodicals Series
1740-1940
Magazines and journals published in the U.S. mostly before 1900.

Archival collections

First World War Portal
1900-1950
Primary sources including documents, films and oral histories themed around personal experiences, propaganda and recruitment, visual perspectives and narratives, and the global conflict.
Medical Services and Warfare
1850s-1930s
Primary sources from Crimean War, the American Civil War and the First World War tell the story of medical advances during warfare, including the outbreak of the influenza epidemic in 1918 and the discovery of penicillin in 1927.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
1770-1950
Diaries, journals, and letters written by famous and not-so-famous North American women.
Popular Medicine in America
1800-1900
Advertising pamphlets, trade cards, posters and promotional work by commercial manufacturers of medical aids revealing trends such as phrenology, herbal medicine and hydrotherapy.
Congressional Publications (ProQuest Congressional)
1789-
U.S. legislative information, including access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more. Includes the U.S. Serial Set.
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information, including access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more. Additionally, searchers can retrieve CIS Legislative Histories for public laws. Contains an index of congressional publications from 1789 to the present and locate information about members and committees. Statutes at Large and Congressional Indexes from 1789-1969 are included.

Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

British Newsreels
Newsreel films reporting weekly on world events, British politics, life, and WW1; the silent films include descriptive transcripts and are searchable.