Research Guides: POL 269-A: The 1960s: Primary Sources about the 1960s

Historical News Sources

Individual Titles

To see which individual titles we have, please visit our Find a Journal page and search on the title of the newspaper you are looking for. Below are some of the most requested historical newspapers but this by no means a complete list!

Multi-Source News Databases

African American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of newspapers published by or for African Americans between 1827-1998 to gain insights into African American history, culture, and daily life. Includes page images. Coverage: 1827-1998
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of periodicals published by or about African Americans to gain insights into African American history, society, and culture. Coverage: 1825-1995
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of historical newspapers. WFU access includes the Early American Newspapers Series 1 (1690-1876), African American Newspapers Series 1 (1827-1998), African American Newspapers Series 2 (1835-1956), and Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876). Coverage: 1690-1876, 1827-1998
British Library Newspapers (1800-1900) This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable, full page image digital access to newspapers from throughout the British isles, including Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Includes access to Parts I & II (1800-1900). Coverage: 1800-1900
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable, full page image digital access to British journals published between the late 1600s and early 1900s. Topics covered include, literature, art, music, architecture, drama, history, science, and more. Includes access to collections I & II. Coverage: 1680s-1930s
Newspapers.com: North Carolina Collection This link opens in a new window
Search the full text of historical newspapers from counties and cities across the state of North Carolina.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. Coverage: 1801-1899
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text searchable access to both U.S. and selected international historical newspapers, including: New York Times (1851-three years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1998), Wall Street Journal (1889-2011), Christian Science Monitor (1908-2009), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), Washington Post (1877-2006), New York Amsterdam News (1922-2010), Times of India (1838-2010), Korea Times (1956-2016), Irish Times and Weekly Irish Times (1859-2021). More recent issues may be available through other databases. Includes advertisements, illustrations, etc. as they were laid out on the original page. Coverage: 1849-three years ago
Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) This link opens in a new window
Indexes general interest magazines published between 1890 and 1982. Coverage: 1890-1982

American History: Primary Sources

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I have set up trials to the following databases but they will end on 10/28 so download any primary sources before then. All trials can be accessed from this link.

History Vault Labor Priests Progressive Politics
History Vault Labor Unions in US, 1861-1974
History Vault Progressive Era La Follette Papers
History Vault Progressive Era Voices of Reform
History Vault Socialist Party of America Papers
History Vault Workers Labor Unions Amer Left
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals
Socialist and Radical Periodicals

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20th Century

African American Communities This link opens in a new window
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina, this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through a range of primary source materials. Coverage: 1863-1986
Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new window
Provides access to materials exploring important aspects of LGBTQ life. Includes periodicals, newsletters, manuscripts, government records, organizational papers, correspondence, an international selection of posters, and other primary source materials. Includes access to five modules: LGBTQ History Since 1940, part 1; LGBTQ History Since 1940, part 2; Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture; and L'Enfer de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France Digital Archive. Coverage: 1600-Current
Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford) This link opens in a new window
Includes the writings and statements of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and its leaders. It also covers organizations that evolved from or were influenced by RAM and persons that had close ties to RAM. Coverage: 1962-1999

FBI Records: The Vault
Contains declassified FBI records of surveillance activities. Includes records relating to labor and civil rights organizations, organized crime, and other groups and individuals the FBI has monitored over time.

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s This link opens in a new window
Contains FBI files on a wide range of organizations, people, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements. Includes files on Abbie Hoffman, Ceasar Chavez, The Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society and more. Coverage: 1956-1971
Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 This link opens in a new window
Contains Justice Department and FBI files on a wide range of African American organizations, people, and activities from 1928-1984. Includes Malcom X, W.E.B. Dubois, NAACP, and more. Coverage: 1920-1984
Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress This link opens in a new window
The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was formed in 1946 by a merger of three groups with ties to the Communist Party: the International Labor Defense, the National Negro Congress, and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. The records in this collection represent the files of the national office of the CRC, including case files, publications, correspondence, etc. Coverage: 1946-1955
HistoryMakers This link opens in a new window
Archive of video oral histories from both well-known and unsung African Americans from diverse backgrounds. Search by name, area of influence, birth state, or by broad topic. All videos include full-text searchable transcripts.

Independent Voices
open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

James Meredith, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Integration of the University of Mississippi This link opens in a new window
Primary sources related to James Meredith enrollment at the University of Missisippi in 1962, including FBI documents, correspondence with the NAACP, and letters he received from people around the world in response. Coverage: 1961-1962
Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture This link opens in a new window
This collection charts the development of one of the world’s largest and most culturally significant industries. Material is sourced from international archives, including the archives of Thomas Cook, the world’s best known travel agency and a pioneer of tourism for the masses. Coverage: 1850-1980
Market Research and American Business Reports, 1935-1965 This link opens in a new window
An insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer. Coverage: 1935-1965
Nixon Years, 1969-1974 This link opens in a new window
Nixon’s handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration’s notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and resignation, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective. Coverage: 1969-1974
Political Extremism and Radicalism This link opens in a new window
Primary sources on political extremism and radicalism across the globe. Covers 1900-2010. Includes monographs and manuscripts by and about these movements. Content Warning: This collection contains images and documents that may be triggering or disturbing to some.
Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new window
From the collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, discover the 1950's to the 1970's through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. Coverage: 1950-1975
Republic of New Afrika: Independence, Reparations, and Citizenship This link opens in a new window
This collection provides documentation collected by the FBI and chronicles the activities of the social movement organization The Republic of New Afrika (RNA), including activities of national and local leaders, power struggles within the organization, its growing militancy, and its affiliations with other Black militant organizations. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Library. Coverage: 1968-1980
Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson This link opens in a new window
Contains clippings, correspondence, James Jackson's lectures, research notebooks, speeches, and writings (published and unpublished), internal documents pertaining to the Southern Negro Youth Congress and to Freedomways, materials pertaining to the Smith Act indictments of Jackson and other communists, Communist Party internal documents, and memorabilia and other biographical materials. Source Library: Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University. Coverage: 1932-2000
Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History This link opens in a new window
These personal accounts describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women through diaries, correspondence, and more. Coverage: 1835-1976
We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 This link opens in a new window
Freedom Riders rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, which outlawed racial segregation in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines. The Freedom Rides bolstered the credibility of the Civil Rights Movement and called national attention to violent disregard for the law in the southern United States. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Library. Coverage: 1961
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000 This link opens in a new window
Includes primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. Also includes a searchable online edition of the highly respected research tool "Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary" (5 volumes, 1971–2004), fully integrated into the broader Women & Social Movements database.

POL 269-A: The 1960s: Primary Sources about the 1960s

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