U.S. History and American Studies 

Politicians/Diplomats

Dean Acheson Papers (MSSA)

Chester Bowles Papers (MSSA)

Henry Stimson Papers (MSSA)

Cyrus Vance Papers (MSSA)

U.N. Oral History Collection (MSSA)

Eugene V. Debs Papers (Microfilm collection, FILM MISC 949)

Papers of the Socialist Party of America (Microfilm collection, FILM MISC 850)

Socialist Party of New Haven Records

William C. Bullitt Papers

Edward M. House Papers

Grassroots movements

Communist Party USA Papers

Women and Work Collection (MSSA)

Protest Journals Collection, 1960s-1970s (MSSA)

Collection on the Right (MSSA)

Reports and records concerning conflict between SDS and Students for a Free Campus at Yale (MSSA)

Materials Documenting Yale student unrest (MSSA)

Kent State Collection (MSSA)

Right wing pamphlet collection, 1917-1972 (MSSA)

Highlander School Collection

Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Haymarket Affair Collection (BEINECKE)

Activists/Lawyers

Frank Donner Papers (MSSA)

Walter White Papers (Beinecke)

Thomas Emerson Papers (MSSA)

Jerome Frank Papers (MSSA)

Abe Fortas Papers (MSSA)

Earl Browder Papers, 1891-1975 (Microfilm Collection, call number Film B20688)

W. E. B. Dubois Collection (BEINECKE)

Emma Goldman Papers (Microfilm Collection, call number FILM MISC 704)

Morris Hillquit Papers (Microfilm Collection, call number FILM MISC 875)

ACLU of Ohio Kent State Project Papers (LSF)

Intellectuals and Artists

Richard Wright Papers (Beinecke)

William F. Buckley Papers (MSSA)

John Hersey Papers (MSSA)

Walter Lippmann Papers (MSSA)

C. Vann Woodward Papers (MSSA)

Dwight Macdonald Papers (MSSA)

William Sloane Coffin Papers (MSSA)

Kingman Brewster Papers (MSSA)

Edmund Wilson Papers (MSSA)

Matthew Josephson Papers (Beinecke)

Communist Infiltration of the SCLC, FBI Investigation File, 1957-1983 (Microfilm Collection, call number MISC1017)

Liston Pope Social Ethics Pamphlet Collection, 1938-1973

Louise Bryant Papers (MSSA)

James Baldwin Early Manuscripts Collection (Beinecke)

Charles Barton Neff Papers

William A. Williams Papers

Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers (Beinecke)

Charles H. Hapgood Papers (Beinecke)

Langston Hughes Collection (Beinecke)

James Weldon Johnson Papers (Beinecke)

Claude McKay Papers (Beinecke)

Gertrude Stein Papers (Beinecke)

Eugene O'Neill Papers (Beinecke)

DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS:

Access NewspaperARCHIVE

Database of a number of small newspapers.

Historical Newspapers Complete

Contains full-text version of a number of important newspapers, including:

Atlanta Constitution(1868-1925), Atlanta Daily World (1932-2003), Boston Globe(1872-1922), Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975), Chicagao Tribune(1849-1985), Christian Science Monitor(1908-1992), Hartford Courant(1764-1922), L.A. Sentinel (1946-2005), L.A. Times(1881-1985), N.Y. Amsterdam News (1922-1993),  N.Y. Times(1851-2002, N.Y. Tribune(1900-1910)Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), San Francisco Chronicle (1867-1922), the Wall Street Journal(1889-1988), and the Washington Post(1877-1989).

Chronicling America - Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), this site allows you to search and view newspapers from 1880-1910 and find information about newspapers published between 1690-present. 

DIGITAL MAGAZINE ARCHIVES:

American Spectator Archive (1967-present)

The American Spectator is conservative U.S. monthly magazine. This database allows users to browse issues by date or search by keywords.

Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive (1969 - present) is a guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from alternative, radical, and left publications, that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change.

Alt-Press Watch contains newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

Commonweal (1924-present) Founded in New York in 1924, Commonweal is a monthly Catholic opinion magazine. This database allows users to browse issues by date or search by keywords.

Commentary Digital Archive

Commentary is a monthly magazine with analysis of politics, religion, foreign affairs, social policy, culture, and the arts, as well as for outstanding reviews of current books. The magazine’s letters section is a forum for debate about issues of the day.

Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
This interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses from 1960-1989.

Harper's Magazine & Cumulative Index Since 1850, Harper's Magazine has been one of the leading periodicals of culture and opinion. This digital archive makes every issue of Harper's monthly allows users to browse individual issues or search the database by keyword.

HarpWeek: 1857-1912 Searchable full-text database of all the pages of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912 with scanned images, together with a series of indexes. The subject index provides information on domestic and foreign news, editorials, and people.

Left Index contains political, economic, social and culturally scholarship inside and outside academia with a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas. Topics covered include the labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.

LGBT Life LGBT Life provides citations and some full text articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. It covers core scholarly publications, as well as many alternative publications and grey literature.

Nation Digital Archive contains every issue of The Nation from July 1865 through the present.

National Review Archive Complete indexing & abstracting and full text coverage for all issues of the journal from 1955 through to the present. The National Review has been a leading journal of opinion since its inception in 1955.

New Republic - Complete digital archive from the first to current issue (1914-present).

New York Reveiw of Books Archive - Database of every issue of the New York Review of Books, from the first issue in 1963 to present.

Readers' Guide Abstracts Full Text offers comprehensive indexing and abstracting of some 375 of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada since 1890, plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals from 1994 - present. They cover news, current events, and all subject areas, including business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science.

Readers’ Guide Retrospective Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.