Research Guides: HST 496WI: History and the Media (Dr. McCarthy): Find Articles

Find a Specific Article or Journal

Chicago Style 16th Edition

These resources are based on the 16th edition (2010) of the Chicago Manual of Style.

Chicago Manual of Style Online
An online version of the Chicago Manual of Style guide. Access is limited to CMU students and staff.
Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide
Using the Chicago Manual of Style (OWL at Purdue)
Chicago Documentation Style

Turabian 7th Edition

These links will give you information on citing sources according to the 7th edition of A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate Turabian.

Find Article Newspaper, Magazine & Journal Articles

There are many online resources relating to the study of media from a historical perspective. This list of resources, while by no means exhaustive, provides a basic starting point for you research.

New York Times, 1851-2020 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
The Historical New York Times (1851-2007) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. This database offers full-text and full-image articles and deal not only with news, but also includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, as well as historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale) This link opens in a new window
"With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration."
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1940 This link opens in a new window
APS Online spans over 1,500 titles and 7 million pages of content, from the first American magazines, published in 1741, to the World War II period as recorded in magazines, journals, and newspapers. A complete title list is available for downloading in Excel format with dates of coverage.
America: History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
"The definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history."
Gilded Age, The This link opens in a new window
"Brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection that includes such topics as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage. In addition to an extensive selection of key treatises that reflect the social and cultural ferment of the late nineteenth century, The Gilded Age offers a wealth of rare materials, including songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera."
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Electronic version of International Index to Periodicals (1907-1955), International Index (1955-1965), Social Sciences and Humanities Index (1965-1974), and Humanities Index (1974-1996). This database should be used in conjunction with Humanities Abstracts in FirstSearch.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access of more than 200 history and history-related journals. Remember that in many cases the latest 3-5 years' worth of issues are NOT included due to publisher restrictions.

Gale NewsVault
"Gale NewsVault allows students, researchers, and faculty of all levels to simultaneously search or browse across multiple historical national and regional newspaper and periodical Gale archive collections owned by CMU. The articles listed in the search results using Gale NewsVault are displayed as digitized page images just as they originally appeared in print. All articles allow full-text searching. You can also read the newspapers and magazines cover-to-cover in full screen, or--using an advanced image viewer--save, print, highlight, bookmark, grab, pan, zoom, and crop content and images."

Times Digital Archive 1785-2014 (Gale) This link opens in a new window
"Search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching."

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