Announcing Latin American Newsstand, a database featuring recent content from 41 newspaper titles covering Central and South America and beyond.
More details on our featured resources page.
Category: New Resources
Olin Digital Film Archive Launched
HPNL announces the Chuck Olin Digital Film Archive. The archive includes streaming video interviews featuring first-hand accounts from soldiers of the Jewish Brigade.
Mass Observation Online
Mass Observation Online provides integrated access to approx. 115,000 digital images of material from the Mass Observation Project, an extensive social survey conducted in Britain during 1937 to early 1950s. More info (no longer available)
Introducing the Digital Urbana Daily Courier 1916-1925
Published from 1897 through March 1979 under a succession of titles, the Urbana Daily Courier provides rich documentation of the development of commerce and industry, the course of local and regional politics, and the history of cultural and social life in our community, as well as the local experience of global events.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
MEMSO provides a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources relating to British and Irish history on-line.
More info about MEMSO.
New Subscription: 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
19th Century U.S. Newspapers, a full-text searchable, facsimile-image database, provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
More info about 19th Century U.S. Newspapers.
Historical Los Angeles Times Now Available!
Digital images of the Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) are now available to UIUC affiliates via ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers. Browse by issue or search across the full-text in this rich resouce.
New Resource: Access World News
Access World News is a comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers providing coverage of domestic and international news sources of recent years. Browse or search over 100 newspaper titles from Illinois or search across nearly 2000 titles spanning the globe.
Backfiles of History Dept. Preliminary Exam Questions Now Available Online!
Digitized versions of past preliminary exams are now available for download from our web site.
Read Newspapers Online in their Original Print Layout!
With our newest subscription to Press Display, you can now read over 250 of today’s papers from around the world in their original full-page and design. Also read El Pais and Le Monde online with Newsbank’s E-Editions.
[Update: Newsbank E-Editions no longer available.]