ARTH 4110/6110 : Curatorial Practicum (Fall 2020): Context

Comprehensive index of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States 1890 through 1982.

Chadwyck-Healey.
Click on "Newspapers" in the "View Contents" box on the Black Studies Center home page.
Searchable coverage of the Chicago Defender - Daily edition (1956 to 1975); Chicago Defender - Saturday edition (1910 to 1975); New York Amsterdam News - Weekly edition (1911-2002); Pittsburgh Courier - Weekly edition (1911-2002); and selected articles from the Cleveland Call and Post - Weekly edition (1934-1991).

This unique fully-searchable collection brings together approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world. Rare and unique content from newsletters, papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other types of primary sources sheds light on the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and more.

Subjects covered include anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation, and socialism.

... a major weekly news magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. This link takes you to Google Books' "About This Magazine" page for Life. Scroll down a bit for the "Browse All Issues" section, which allows you to select individual issues. Use Google Books' Advanced search page to do specific keyword searches. Here is a brief (and somewhat informal) screencast you might find helpful in navigating this resource.

A searchable archive of leading women's interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st. Subject coverage includes consumer culture, economics/marketing, family life, fashion, gender studies, health and fitness, home/interior design, popular culture, and social history. This database provides access to the complete archives of several 19th and 20th-century women's magazines. In combination, the publications cover topics such as family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, culture, and many more; this material serves multiple research areas, from gender studies, social history, and the arts, through to education, politics and marketing/media history.