LibGuides: HIST 406B (Johnson), American West since 1849: Collections searched to locate these sources

Free newspaper archives

All states:

Chronicling America
Google News Archive
Mostly American and Canadian papers, 19th and 20th century.
Independent Voices
Alternative press newspapers focusing on the 1960’s – 1980s.

Western states:

Free digital collections

Digital Public Library of America
Online Archive of California
Mountain West Digital Library
Free access to digitized resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, counties, and municipalities in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, and other parts of the U.S. West.
Library of Congress: California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849 to 1900
Library of Congress: American Notes: Travels in America, 1750 to 1920
linealist
New Mexico history archives

Help from a librarian

Priscilla Finley, humanities librarian

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Books

UNLV Libraries Quick Search
Search books in UNLV's print and ebook collections, including Sabin Americana, as well as works in the public domain from Hathi Trust.

Hathi Trust
- Good for: Searching books and periodicals, including full text access to those in the public domain and limited search for those still under copyright.
- Contains: Scanned books and periodicals
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas
Good for: Finding primary source materials on exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more.
Contains: Historical books, pamphlets, serials and other documents about North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Dates covered: 1500-1926

Overland Journeys: Travels In The West, 1800-1880
292 books or reports featuring accounts of travel and exploration in the American West between 1800-1880.
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Selections are based on the bibliographies, The Plains and Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865, and The Trail West: A Bibliography-Index to Western American Trails, 1841-1869.
Archive.org Library requires free Internet Archive account for one hour loan of all in copyright works.
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Scanned books published before 2011. Make a free account to borrow works still under copyright.
Project Gutenberg
Free ebook versions of out of copyright books.

American West
1830-1939
Pamphlets, maps, books, ephemeral material and rare printed sources related to the history of the American West.
Part of Americana combined search portal
WorldCat
11th century -
Use WorldCat to search the holdings of academic, public and special libraries around the world.
This union catalog contains records of books and other items in libraries worldwide. Items owned by UNLV Libraries are indicated; UNLV students, faculty and staff may request books via Document Delivery Services.

Government & Legal Sources

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.
Hathi Trust
- Good for: Searching books and periodicals, including full text access to those in the public domain and limited search for those still under copyright.
- Contains: Scanned books and periodicals

Foreign Relations of the United States
Digital reproduction of 375 volume set reprinting declassified documents about major US foreign policy decisions, 1861-1960

Nexis Uni
Searchable published news, legal, medical and business information.
The news section delivers the full text of international, national and regional newspapers along with wire services, broadcast transcripts, magazines, and non-English language sources. The legal section contains U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. This includes Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. The medical section supplies information from news and medical journals, and provides abstracts to medical news from Medline. The business section includes business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

United States historical newspapers searchable online

Use the date range limit to narrow your search to a relevant time period.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
1800-1900
American newspapers including the New York Herald, Lynchburg Virginian, The Hawaiian Gazette, Rocky Mountain News, Southern Illustrated News (VA), Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), the Milwaukee Sentinel, and many more.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
1827-1902
African-American newspapers including The Colored American, all of Frederick Douglass’ newspapers, The Freedmen’s Record, and more.
America's Historical Newspapers
1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America
1828-2016
Includes national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications from an Indigenous perspective.
Historical Black Newspapers from ProQuest
1893-2010
African American newspapers from Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Norfolk VA., Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender, 1909-2010
1909-2010
African American newspaper from Chicago, Illinois.
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune
1849-2014
Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
Historical Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, 1908-2007
1908-2007
Articles and images from The Christian Science Monitor newspaper.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
1789-1924
Historical newspapers from the Library of Congress, including Nevada newspapers.
Civil War 1860-1865: A Newspaper Perspective
1860-1865
Newspaper reports of major events of the Civil War covered by both Union and Confederate sources.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
1808-1980
Newspapers published by Hispanic-American communities primarily in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas and New York.
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.
Las Vegas Review Journal Archive (1929-1996)
3/30/1929-present
Nevada daily newspaper. 1929-1996 is page images only; 1997- is article text only, no images.
Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
1881-2015
Historical California newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: New York Times
1851-2020
Historical New York newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune, 1841-1922
1841-1922
Full text of New York Tribune, 1841-1922.
South Carolina Newspapers
1732-1775, 1777-1780
The South Carolina Gazette published news and details of life and trade in America during the years prior to independence.
Historical Newspapers: Washington Post
1877-2007
Daily newspaper from Washington, DC.

Search for articles published in popular magazines and journals from different times in history.

African American Historical Serials Collection, 1816-1922
1816-1922
Newspapers and magazines published by African American churches, educational and service institutions.
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Part I-V (EBSCO)
1684-1912
Popular magazines, newspapers, and journals published in the United States.
American Periodicals Series
1740-1940
Magazines and journals published in the U.S. mostly before 1900.
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection
1750-present
Publications documenting the Hispanic culture of the United States - history, literature, political commentary, and culture. Written in Spanish (80%) and English (20%).
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
1880-2015
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.
Godey's Lady's Book
1830-1880
American magazine with firsthand information on social, historical and cultural aspects of the 19th century.
Harper's Bazaar Archive
1867-
Harper's Bazaar magazine shows changes in American fashion, culture and society.
Media History Digital Library
1903-1995. Film industry and fan publications.
Vogue Archive
- Good for: Researching fashion and culture, including specific garments, accessories or brands.
- Contains: Images and text from Vogue Magazine.
- Dates covered: 1892-present.
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.
Women's Wear Daily Archive
1910-
Comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), the leading fashion-industry trade paper.

These links allow you to search across multiple databases at the same time.

AM Explorer
1493-1975
Search all archival collections from Adam Matthew Publishers.
Gale Primary Sources
Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.
Historical U.S. Newspapers from ProQuest
1841-2000 with some more recent
Search all ProQuest U.S. historical newspaper collections simultaneously.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender‎ (1909 - 1975)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune‎ (1849 - 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Christian Science Monitor‎ (1908 - 2003)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times‎ (1881 - 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times‎ (1851 - 2013)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune‎ (1841 - 1922)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post‎ (1877 - 2000)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. West, including Reno Gazette-Journal (1876-2008), San Francisco Examiner (1889-2007), and Spokane Statesman-Review (1894-2009)
Historical Periodicals from ProQuest
1740-1940 with some more recent
Search all ProQuest historical periodical collections simultaneously.
American Periodicals‎ (1740 - 1940)
British Periodicals‎ (1681 - 1939)
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive‎ (1880 - 2000)
The Harper's Bazaar Archive‎ (1867 - current)
Periodicals Archive Online‎
The Vogue Archive‎
Women's Magazine Archive‎ (1846 - 2005)
The Women's Wear Daily Archive‎
Readex AllSearch
1639-1922
Combined search of American historical newspapers (1690-1922), printed books (1639-1819), and pamphlets and ephemera (1749-1922).
Search all collections of historical primary sources from Readex simultaneously: America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera; American Pamphlets; Early American Imprints (Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker).

Accessible Archives combined search
Cross search 19thC American periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, and clippings.
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Collections include African American Newspapers, The Civil War A Newspaper Perspective, Godey's Lady's Book, South Carolina Newspapers (colonial), and antislavery and woman suffrage publications.
EBSCO 19th C periodicals
Cross search American Antiquarian Society periodicals with African American Serials, Gateway to North America collections.

HIST 406B (Johnson), American West since 1849: Collections searched to locate these sources