A key resource for 20th c. newspaper research. Among the 80+ collections are approximately 50 collections of historical newspapers including mainstream papers such as the New York Times, titles from the Black press such as the Chicago Defender, and collections of Communist and leftist newspapers including the Daily Worker.
*Scroll down the homepage of ProQuest News and Newspapers to find the historical newspapers. A full list of all of the historical newspaper titles is included on another page of this guide.

Collection of newspapers published from U.S. prisons representing penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.

This database covers the colonial period to the late 20th c. Most of the content is pre-20th century, but several collections cover the 20th c. and include:
- 20th Century American Newspapers, Series 1-3
- African American Newspapers, Series 1 (1827-1998) and 2 (1835-1956)
- Ethnic American Newspapers, 1799-1971
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
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Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources at the local, regional, national and international level. Coverage from ca. 1982 to present.

Approximately 170 periodicals. Click here for title list.

A collection of digitized magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers of the alternative press spanning the 1960's to the 1980's.

Via publisher East View

Historical newspaper archive providing online access to thousands of historical newspapers, dating from the early 1700s into the early 2000s.

A quirky and sometimes faulty search interface, but the only online access point for such journals of opinion as American Spectator, Commentary, Dissent, Harper's Magazine, New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Weekly Standard.

Provides interactive, digital access to nearly 7,000 newspapers and magazines globally. Coverage generally for the last 90 days.

Coverage from late 19th c. to 2005 for the following magazines: Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, Town & Country, Women's International Network News, Woman's Day
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Video archive of broadcast television program 60 Minutes.

This resource provides full-length streaming videos and clips, including newsreels and video news footage. It covers different subject areas, genres and time periods, all drawn from various producers.

A large database of manuscript collections relating to 19th and 20th c. U.S. history, including the papers of the NAACP, CORE, SNCC, and other Civil Rights and Black Power organizations; extensive labor history records; files regarding a wide variety of domestic affairs as well as foreign policy under the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations; and more. Browse to "Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle" for collections such as the NAACP Papers documenting its criminal justice campaigns and African American Police League Records 1961-1988 (Chicago). The Latinx History module includes the collection, Latino Civil Rights during the Carter Administration.

Digital archive of African American video oral histories. Approximately 2700 oral history interviews with African Americans from a variety of fields.
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Provides access to 205 digitized manuscript collections. Click on the "Collections" link for an overview, and then filter by "Topics," e.g. African American Studies; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Law, Politics, and Radical Studies; Native American Studies; etc. Please note: The materials in this database are often presented out of their original order, and it's frequently a challenging resource to use. Please reach out for assistance if any of the collections are of interest or relevant to your research.

Materials from popular culture collections from the U.S. and U.K. between 1950 to 1975. Topics include student protests, civil rights, consumerism, and the Vietnam War. The collection includes pamphlets, letters, government files, eyewitness accounts, underground magazines, visual and video materials, and ephemera and memorabilia.

Contains records of speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by Fisk University's Race Relations Department from 1943-1970. The Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association. The original records are housed at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans. The materials range from interviews and statistics to educational pamphlets and administrative correspondence produced by the Department's staff, to photographs and speeches from the Annual Race Relations Institutes where participants included Charles S. Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.

Slavery, Abolition and Social justice features documents and collections that treat slavery, its legacy and continued existence, and social justice issues related to its legacy. Coverage is from 1490 to 2008, and materials include original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and images.

Archival materials documenting the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and women’s political activism in areas such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism. Click on the "Collections" link for an overview of 15 collections.

Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors.

Key resource for finding Congressional documents, such as the Congressional Record, Hearings, House and Senate Documents and Reports (i.e., U.S. Congressional Serial Set), and more.

A large number of government documents, including reports and transcripts of hearings, can be found here. Yale Library is a member of the consortium that hosts this database, so accessing it from the Yale network will provide access to more features such as downloading of entire documents in PDF format.

A key resource for legal research and government information. Includes:
- Law Journal Library
- Federal Register Library
- Code of Federal Regulations
- U.S. Supreme Court Library
- Treaties and Agreements Library
- U.S. Attorney General Opinions
- Legal Classics
- U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
- U.S. Statutes at Large
- U.S. Presidential Library
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The link here goes to the catalog record for part one, but the "Online database" link goes to the home page for all three parts of the collection to which Yale researchers have access:
"Southern Regional Office Files [1945-1990]"
"The Roger Baldwin Years, 1912-1950"
"Years of Expansion,1950-1990"

The link here goes to the catalog record for part I of this database, but the "Online Database" link will actually go to the landing page for parts I and II together.

Source for information on U.S. and international companies and executives. Includes print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790. This database replaces LexisNexis Academic. *The "Guided Search" (rather than searching "All Nexis Uni") will help to narrow down your search results.

Social explorer provides access to census and demographic data. The online interface lets users create maps and reports to illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change. Included is the entire U.S. census history from 1790 to 2010, the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2005 to 2012, the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS) from 1980 to 2010, InfoGroup data on religious congregations in the US for 2009 and 2010, and carbon emissions data for 2002 from the Vulcan Project.